Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has sent its first formal letter to investors, and the standout figure captures the AI era in miniature. One of its funds has swelled to about $3.7bn in value, driven overwhelmingly by early bets on OpenAI and SpaceX. The letter, reported by Bloomberg, reads as a victory lap and a quiet […]
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Dognosis pairs trained sniffer dogs with artificial intelligence to flag cancer from a breath sample. It is a charming idea aimed at a real problem, with equally real caveats: this is prescreening in trials, not a proven diagnostic. A dog’s nose has long outclassed most laboratory kit, and a two-year-old Bengaluru startup called Dognosis is […]
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In a roughly 6,500-word essay published a couple of weeks ago, Meta’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, laid out a vision of “personal superintelligence”, an artificial intelligence built for everyone rather than a centralised system that automates people out of a job. The slope was expansive, occasionally utopian, and it landed less as a settled manifesto […]
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mazon was sued on Monday over the facial-recognition feature it recently added to its Ring doorbells, in a complaint that turns on a familiar asymmetry: the person who buys the camera consents to it, and the person walking past the camera does not. Charles Sigwalt, a Virginia resident, filed the proposed class action in federal […]
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Liu Qiangdong’s pledge to safeguard JD.com’s workforce from automation sits uncomfortably with his own ‘unmanned era’ vision and a flagship warehouse already running on four employees. Liu Qiangdong, the founder of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, vowed in an internal speech this week to protect the company’s 900,000-strong workforce from AI and robotics, according to a […]
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Sitting alongside Pope Leo XIV at the launch of Magnifica humanitas, the company’s interpretability lead conceded that frontier-lab incentives can pull researchers away from doing the right thing. Christopher Olah, Anthropic’s co-founder and the head of its interpretability research, used his seat at the Vatican on Monday to make an argument that no leader of […]
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The chain is reverting to manual counts across North America, ending one of CEO Brian Niccol’s more visible technology bets and adding another data point to the file marked “enterprise AI pilots that did not survive contact with the real store.” Starbucks has retired the AI-powered inventory tool it rolled out across its North American […]
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The $20bn Kimi developer has informed shareholders it will dismantle its variable-interest-entity structure, after Beijing made it clear an exemption was unlikely. The IPO would be one of the biggest Chinese AI listings on record. Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi chatbot, has told shareholders it intends to dismantle its variable-interest-entity (VIE) structure […]
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Elon Musk’s AI lab promised employees a 420-dollar payment for handing over their personal tax data to train Grok ahead of the April 15 deadline. Two months on, Bloomberg reports, the money has not been paid. Elon Musk’s xAI asked its own employees earlier this year to hand over their personal US tax returns as […]
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Alphabet runs the most enviable AI infrastructure stack in the industry. The success of the third-party deals with Anthropic and Meta is the reason internal access has become a competitive resource. Google has spent a decade quietly building the most enviable position in AI infrastructure: a healthy cloud business, its own custom chips, and supply […]
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TL;DR Figma reported Q1 2026 revenue of $333.4 million, up 46% year on year, beating analyst expectations of $316 million. The design software company raised full-year guidance by $55 million to $1.422-$1.428 billion and issued Q2 guidance of $348-$350 million, roughly $20 million above consensus. The stock jumped more than 8% after hours. The key […]
Read MoreTL;DR OpenAI is preparing possible legal action against Apple over their two-year-old ChatGPT-Siri partnership, which OpenAI says has failed to deliver expected subscription revenue. OpenAI lawyers are working with an outside firm on options including a breach-of-contract notice. OpenAI believed the deal could generate billions per year; instead, Apple’s implementation buried ChatGPT behind friction, and […]
Read MoreTL;DR Boston Consulting Group is training an AI sales agent called Jamie on both its best and worst sellers’ behaviours, using call transcripts and engagement patterns to build a system that coaches human salespeople and improves over time. Vercel has already taken the same approach further, cutting its 10-person SDR team to one human overseeing […]
Read MoreTL;DR HMRC has awarded a £175 million, ten-year AI contract to London-based Quantexa to detect tax fraud, fix errors, and close the £46.8 billion tax gap, marking a deliberate shift toward British AI sovereignty after more than £900 million in contracts with American firm Palantir across UK government departments. HM Revenue and Customs has awarded […]
Read MoreTL;DR Coinspaid built a remote-first fintech culture centered around ownership, flexibility, learning, and employee well-being. By combining global hiring, cross-team collaboration, and long-term career development, the company has become one of fintech’s most recognized remote-first employers. Fintech is a sector known for speed and pressure. Employment is usually described in the language of momentum: rapid […]
Read MoreWindows, Office, Teams, Copilot, server operating systems, and the cloud licensing the regulator already flagged last July. A nine-month investigation, a February 2027 designation decision, and the first CMA SMS case to walk straight through the door the cloud market inquiry left ajar. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has opened a Strategic Market Status […]
Read MoreAn eight-month investigation arc, a $6m bellwether verdict, and a National PTA that has now resigned its Meta sponsorship. The line between independent expert and corporate spokesperson is, on the evidence, a budget item. Meta and Google have spent years funding a network of US parent and child-safety organisations that turn up, again and again, […]
Read MoreA week after Samsung Electronics passed $1tn in market value, its largest union is preparing an 18-day strike that could disrupt the AI memory chips inside that valuation. The wage gap with SK Hynix is the spark. The bonus formula is the fight. Samsung Electronics sent a letter to its two largest unions on Thursday […]
Read MoreTwo AI memory rallies, one country, and a market cap chart that has gone up 9x in two years. If SK Hynix crosses the threshold, South Korea becomes the first country outside the US to host two trillion-dollar companies at the same time. SK Hynix is roughly $50bn away from a trillion-dollar market capitalisation. Its […]
Read MorePriced at $185, above the marketed range, the wafer-scale chip company opens trading on Thursday at a $56.4bn valuation. The OpenAI deal is what got the book covered. The customer concentration footnote is what the next quarter has to answer. Cerebras Systems priced its IPO at $185 per share on Wednesday evening, above the marketed […]
Read MoreTwo corporate laptops, some credential material, and a forced macOS app update. The interesting part is how the malicious packages got published in the first place: not by a stolen npm password, but by TanStack’s own legitimate release pipeline, after the attacker code took over the runner mid-build. OpenAI said on Wednesday that it found […]
Read MoreThe company that put $13bn into OpenAI now wants the option not to need it. Cursor was the first try and fell apart over GitHub Copilot; talks with Stanford diffusion-LLM startup Inception are alive, and the broader strategy belongs to Mustafa Suleyman. Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing five people familiar with the matter, that the […]
Read MoreAI tools are everywhere, so why do most people still use them like it’s 2015? Artificial intelligence now sits inside almost every tool you open, from search engines and office apps to browsers, phones, and creative software. Updates keep adding assistants, copilots, and generators, each one promising to change how work gets done. On paper, […]
Read MoreAccel led the London chip startup’s round, with Pat Gelsinger joining as an angel investor, weeks after Anthropic was reported to be in early discussions to become a customer. Fractile, the London-based startup designing inference chips that put compute and memory on the same die, has raised $220 million to take its hardware to production, […]
Read MoreMicrosoft’s professional network becomes the latest name on a list that now includes Meta, Amazon, Oracle, and IBM, even as the same companies are guiding $725 billion of AI capital spending this year. LinkedIn is cutting roughly 5% of its staff, the latest reduction at a Microsoft-owned business and the most recent entry in a […]
Read MoreRunning out of money is a story as old as startups, and still highly relevant in 2026. According to recent findings of CB Insights, based on an analysis of 431 VC-backed companies that shut down since 2023, “ran out of capital” tops the list at 70%. Yet, while burn is often treated as the core […]
Read MoreFlyers framing the Model Capability Initiative as an ‘Employee Data Extraction Factory’ appeared in US offices on Tuesday, with a petition and a UK unionisation drive in train By Tuesday afternoon, the flyers were everywhere. Meta employees at several US offices walked into meeting rooms, broke for coffee at vending machines, and used the restrooms […]
Read MoreThe Court of Justice has ruled that Italy’s AGCOM can require Meta to pay publishers for news snippets, the first time the bloc’s top court has weighed in directly. Meta lost its bid to overturn an Italian regulatory order requiring it to compensate publishers for the use of their news snippets, after the Court of […]
Read MoreThe Milan- and Chicago-based startup, backed by Azimut Libera Impresa’s IXC3 fund, plans to scale agentic AI for SMBs and pursue acquisitions in the US. Webidoo, an Italian-American AI company building software for small and medium-sized businesses, has closed a $25m funding round led by the IXC3 fund managed by Azimut Libera Impresa SGR. The […]
Read MoreTL;DR SAP unveiled the Autonomous Enterprise at Sapphire 2026, embedding 200+ AI agents into its core business applications and partnering with Anthropic to make Claude its primary reasoning engine, betting that owning business process logic matters more than owning the AI model as its stock falls 41 per cent. Christian Klein opened the SAP Sapphire […]
Read MoreTL;DR Bristol Myers Squibb signed a $15.2 billion deal with China’s Hengrui Medicine for 13 early-stage drug programmes, as Big Pharma’s patent cliff makes Chinese innovation the fastest path to commercial survival — even as the BIOSECURE Act tries to decouple the two countries’ biotech sectors. Bristol Myers Squibb has signed a deal worth up […]
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