Swedish legal AI firm Legora raises $550M led by Atreides at $8.8B valuation
Swedish legal AI startup Legora has raised $550 million in a Series E funding round, bringing its valuation to $8.8 billion. US investment firm Atreides Management led the round, …
Dario Amodei says Anthropic held Mythos back for four months for safety
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has defended the company’s “race to the top” strategy in a long post on X. He was replying to Nathan Calvin, chief strategy officer at the a…
Heat pump tech is 170 years old. Pascal thinks it’s time for an update.
Refrigerants startup Pascal has a new take on heat pump and cooling tech using a sponge-like material that promises to be 20% more efficient.
Mach9 raises $34M after pivoting to AI CAD software
The startup initially set out to build better, faster, and cheaper surveying hardware in 2021.
Orange outage cuts mobile calls and data for customers across France
Orange, the largest telecoms operator in France, lost much of its mobile network on Wednesday. From about 11:20 CEST, customers nationwide could not make calls, send texts or use …
EU opens Digital Services Act investigation into Booking.com over scams
The European Commission has opened an investigation into Booking.com over concerns that the platform is not doing enough to protect users from fake listings and phishing scams. An…
Nvidia says European partners are adopting DSX to cut AI factory water use
European infrastructure companies are building AI data centres on Nvidia DSX, Nvidia said on Wednesday at its GTC Berlin conference. The chipmaker says the blueprint can cut cooli…
OpenAI’s Brockman urges AI safeguards as group he funds opposes rules
OpenAI president Greg Brockman has joined calls for AI safety rules in the US. At the same time, a political group he helped fund is spending millions to elect candidates who oppo…
Pigment raises $250M at $2.3B valuation in round led by EQT fund
Pigment, a Paris-based AI software maker for business planning, announced on Wednesday that it raised $250M in a Series E round, valuing the company at $2.3B. Nvidia also plans to…
Nvidia turns OpenShell into a full hardware stack for safe AI agents
Nvidia has released a design for running AI agents inside fixed limits, from enterprise infrastructure to edge machines. Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Google Cloud and AWS a…
Protesters heckle Huang in Berlin over Nvidia chips in Russian drones
Protesters interrupted Jensen Huang’s keynote at Nvidia’s GTC Berlin conference on Wednesday, asking what the company is doing about Nvidia chips reported in Russian drones. Secur…
SpaceX revenue rises 161% to $14.6B as AI business overtakes Starlink
SpaceX made more money from artificial intelligence than from Starlink in the third quarter, as total revenue rose 161% to $14.6bn. The company also swung to a net profit of $4.4b…
Eight eMudhra certificate keys were so weak that one was the number 4
Anyone could calculate the private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificates from the certificates themselves. eMudhra is a certificate authority based in India. Anyone hold…
AI agents start paying supplier invoices in Visa, BILL and Billtrust pilot
Visa, BILL and Billtrust have started a live pilot in which AI agents pay approved supplier invoices from start to finish. The agents pay through suppliers’ own payment portals. T…
EU cybersecurity team says unpatched PHP sites may need to go offline
Organisations that cannot quickly patch two critical flaws in PHP should consider taking their websites offline, the EU’s cybersecurity response team has warned. PHP powers a larg…
Cloudflare passes 10 million developers, up 35% in a quarter
More than 10 million developers are now building on Cloudflare, the company said on Tuesday. That is up from 7.4 million a quarter earlier, a rise of about 35% in three months. Cl…
Netflix forecasts weak Q4 profit and cuts its 2026 ad sales target to $2.7B
Netflix expects lower fourth-quarter profit than Wall Street forecast and has cut its annual advertising revenue target. The streaming company reported its third-quarter results o…
QED Science is building a better filter for scientists buried in papers
AI agents can read dozens of scientific papers in minutes. So why are researchers still struggling to keep up? Because finding papers was never the hardest part of the job. The ha…
Donald Trump says data centre companies should pay communities a ‘dividend’
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that companies building data centres should pay a dividend to the surrounding communities. He said the money could go to the town as a who…
Nvidia simulates 104-qubit fault-tolerant quantum computer on JUPITER
Nvidia has simulated a 104-qubit quantum computer that can correct its own errors, using JUPITER, the supercomputer at Germany’s Jülich Supercomputing Centre. The company said it …
Anthropic pitches AI safety bill that may block a model if 50+ people could be killed
The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.
SpaceX and Tesla boards form special committees to review merger
Elon Musk likes the idea but says he is not on either committee, which is made up of independent directors.
Supermicro expects up to $19.5bn in quarterly revenue, $4bn above guidance
Supermicro expects to report revenue of $18.5bn to $19.5bn for the three months to September, against the $14.5bn to $15.5bn it had guided. The AI server maker put the gap down to…
Korean AI data centre firm Elice sinks 32% in a record-worst IPO debut
Shares in Elice, a South Korean AI data centre company, fell 32% on their first day of trading in Seoul on Tuesday. It was the worst debut on record for a Korean IPO of $100m or m…