Meta launches Muse for small businesses, linking its AI agent to Shopify
Meta is bringing its Muse AI agent to small businesses, letting owners connect it to the software they already use to run their companies, the company announced today. The new ver…
Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market
The round builds on a $30 million fundraise in February, taking the company's total funding to $140 million.
Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025 as revenue grew 12-fold, Reuters reports
Anthropic lost $42bn in 2025, while its revenue grew 12-fold to nearly $4.6bn, Reuters reported on Monday. Echo Wang, who reviewed the draft filing, reported that nearly a quarter…
Dodge AI raises $2.65M from Accel and Google to fix enterprise firefighting
Enterprise software is never finished. Once SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, or Microsoft Dynamics goes live, the business keeps changing. Over the years, thousands of company-specific ru…
OpenAI, Blackstone and unions form a data centre alliance, Axios reports
OpenAI, Blackstone, QTS and SoftBank Group have teamed up with US unions to head off state data centre moratoriums, Axios reported on Monday. The American Infrastructure Alliance …
Starship’s engine failure could slow NASA’s plan to return to the moon
The engine failure on SpaceX’s latest Starship test could make it harder for NASA to land astronauts on the Moon on schedule, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The spacecraft reached o…
Trump to host Mark Zuckerberg, Dario Amodei and other AI leaders at White House lunch
US President Donald Trump is set to meet the heads of several major AI companies at the White House on Tuesday, according to Reuters, amid mounting pressure on the government to e…
The Dutch government is building its own Linux desktop on NixOS
The Dutch government is building its own open source workplace for civil servants, with a desktop operating system built on the Linux distribution NixOS. Eight municipalities are …
ByteDance rents a fifth of China’s data centre capacity, SemiAnalysis says
ByteDance occupies roughly a fifth of China’s delivered data centre capacity, and it rents nearly all of it, according to research firm SemiAnalysis. That makes the TikTok owner t…
AMD agrees to buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2bn in stock
AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the AI model startup led by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2bn. AMD announced the deal on Monday. Li will join AMD as execut…
Rayon raises €10M to bring AI and 3D to its interior design software
Rayon, the Paris-based startup that has created software allowing interior designers to draw floor plans in a web browser, announced that it has raised 10 million euros in its Ser…
Samsung and five affiliates put $1bn into KKR’s AI infrastructure firm
On Tuesday, the group said that six of Samsung’s companies are pooling their resources to make a $1bn investment in Helix Digital Infrastructure, a company that KKR set up in June…
X withheld nearly 500 accounts in Turkey in a week, censorship monitor says
According to a report by Bloomberg on Tuesday, X has concealed around 500 accounts from users in Turkey over the past week, many of which are operated by reporters, economists and…
Two-thirds of finance teams now use AI tools, CFO Connect survey finds
AI is now a standard feature in finance departments, with 67% of finance teams currently using one or more AI tools, up from 56% the previous year and 31% in 2024. That is the mai…
Protego Ventures closes debut $125 million fund for Israeli defense tech
Protego Ventures, the first and largest dedicated defense tech VC in Israel, just completed its final $125 million closing, TechCrunch learned exclusively.
OpenAI apologises to Australia and names four agencies its models accessed
OpenAI has apologized to Australia after its models accessed four government websites without permission during training in June. The company also admitted it should have given an…
UK employers are the most wary of AI in hiring, recruiter’s survey suggests
More than half of UK employers in a new survey by recruitment firm Morgan McKinley said they do not use AI to hire, compared with 36% across all seven markets polled. That makes t…
Ex-Tesla team raises $12.5M to put supply chains on autopilot
Atomic's agentic supply chain software is now being used by companies like DoorDash and HelloFresh.
France says Google fines should cut what EU countries pay into the budget
France wants the billions of euros Google has paid in EU fines to lower what member states pay into the bloc’s budget. Benjamin Haddad, the Minister Delegate for European Affairs,…
OpenAI cancels October launch of GPT-6.1 Astra after failed safety tests
OpenAI has called off the October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after the model failed to meet its own safety and alignment standards in testing. The Wall Street Journal broke the news…
Google takes EU to court over orders to share search data with AI rivals
Google has gone to court to challenge two EU orders that would require it to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data with other search engines, Reuters reported.…
Anthropic founders to keep 50.1% of votes after IPO through Founder LLC
Anthropic’s seven co-founders will hold 50.1% of the company’s voting power after it lists. They will do so through a new entity called the Founder LLC, according to a draft IPO f…
Marble raises €6.5M Series A led by Smartfin for its open-source fraud and AML platform
The Paris-based company Marble, which develops open-source software for fraud detection and anti-money laundering compliance, raised €6.5 million in its Series A round, with Smart…
Meta signs deal for Firmus AI computing capacity in Southeast Asia
Meta has signed deals to rent AI chips at data centers in Southeast Asia run by Firmus, an Australian company that builds them, the two companies announced. Meta has reserved a ce…