Ramp hits $60bn valuation in $1.85bn round, Bloomberg reports
Fintech start-up Ramp has raised about $1.85bn at a valuation of roughly $60bn, Rebecca Torrence reported for Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. Dragoneer Investme…
Law firm Quinn Emanuel maps how AI data centre debt could unravel
A memo from US law firm Quinn Emanuel sets out how the debt behind the AI data centre boom could turn into a wave of lawsuits. Liz Hoffman reported that it was doing the rounds ag…
Cirrus Logic made rival bid for Synaptics, Bloomberg reports
Chipmaker Cirrus Logic made a surprise offer for Synaptics last month, trying to break up its agreed sale to Onsemi, Liana Baker and Yiqin Shen reported for Bloomberg. Cirrus Logi…
Super Micro case ‘fixer’ pleads guilty to sending AI servers to China
A former contractor charged alongside Super Micro Computer’s co-founder has pleaded guilty to helping smuggle AI servers to China, Bob Van Voris reported for Bloomberg. Ting-Wei ‘…
Rwanda reportedly wins Africa’s first F1 Grand Prix since 1993
Rwanda looks set to host Formula 1’s first African Grand Prix in more than 30 years. Motorsport site RacingNews365 first reported the deal, citing paddock sources, as GrandPrix.co…
Anthropic says Claude sent a fake murder tip to police during testing
An Anthropic SI model submitted a false tip about a murder case to a US police department while it was being tested, the company said in a new report. The Claude Haiku 4.5 model f…
Elon Musk intensifies attack on Ambani over Starlink India launch delay
Elon Musk has accused Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani of blocking competition.
Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead
Anthropic said it "turned off live internet access" for "all our internal evaluations" until further notice.
Long live the mechanical keyboard
Keychron made a name for itself after launching on Kickstarter in 2017. Today, it offers the value K2 model as well as a variety of other versions, including one with an all-wood …
The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch
TypeSafe AI raised $870 million in a round led by a16Z.
India calls Vance’s ‘indentured servants’ remark deeply offensive
India’s foreign ministry has called US Vice President JD Vance’s description of foreign workers hired by Microsoft as “indentured servants” deeply offensive. Spokesperson Randhir …
Trump gives Musk, Huang, Su and Brin the National Medal of Science
Six technology leaders received the country’s highest honours for science and technology from President Donald Trump on Thursday, the White House said. Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jen…
An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police
Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.
micro1 commits $1bn to buy company data for training AI agents
AI training company micro1 will spend $1bn over the next 12 months buying and licensing operational data from companies. The San Francisco company announced the plan on Friday. Ci…
Anthropic signs CrowdStrike, Hitachi and 9 more to defend power and water
Anthropic will give its frontier Claude models, engineers and threat research to the companies that guard critical infrastructure. That means power grids, water utilities and tran…
Vesta raises $30M for AI agents that work on mortgage decisions
Vesta has raised a $30M Series B to expand AI agents that handle mortgage origination work, including underwriting decisions, with three customer lenders among the investors. The …
Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines used at many data centers
Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines as the data center boom pushes prices up.
Wayve and Stellantis tune one AI driver for Fiat, Jeep and Maserati
Every car will one day need an AI driving system, just as it needs seatbelts and emergency braking, Wayve chief executive Alex Kendall said. He spoke with Stellantis chief executi…
Goldman’s Marco Argenti says AI turns developers into managers of managers
Goldman Sachs is entering a third phase of AI adoption, in which the goal moves from saving money to making it, the bank’s chief information officer Marco Argenti said. He spoke w…
Nik Storonsky wants Revolut to be Europe’s answer to Meta and Google
Revolut wants to grow beyond banking into a global tech company on the scale of the biggest US groups, but built in Europe, chief executive Nik Storonsky said. He spoke with Exor …
Intel is reportedly launching new CPUs on a five-year-old socket to allow DDR4
Gigabyte says new Intel processors will arrive on the five-year-old LGA1700 socket in early 2027, and has updated the BIOS across its whole B760 and H610 lineup. The socket takes …
Vittorio Colao: Europe missed the digital wave and must not miss the next
Europe has less than 2 gigawatts of AI computing capacity and needs more, former Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao said. He spoke at a closed-door press Q&A at Wave by Vento…
Sam Altman says OpenAI will put its mission before its share price
Sam Altman said OpenAI will put its mission ahead of its share price once it goes public, even if the stock “falls a lot”. The OpenAI chief executive said it in an interview with …
Tesla renames Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across Europe
Tesla has renamed Full Self-Driving to Tesla Assisted Driving across its European websites, days after Germany said the old name was misleading. The page under the new name is unc…