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Financial Times: Sources: software-specialist PE firm Hg agrees to acquire Rightsline, whose software helps Disney, the BBC, WBD, and others manage IP licensing, for 500M — Acquisition of rights and r

Financial Times: Sources: Uber has increased its stake in Delivery Hero to ~37% by acquiring Aspex Management's 14.6% share at a €12B valuation, after a takeover offer last week — Share purchase from

The U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX a $2.29 billion contract to build a secure, high-speed satellite communications network to connect military sensors and weapons platforms across the globe. The Spac

Not content with its push into autonomous artificial intelligence workers, WisdomAI Inc. is bringing its comprehensive analytics capabilities to third-party software-as-a-service platforms with today’

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: London-based Perceptic, which says its end-to-end AI platform for drug development is being used by top pharmaceuticals, raised a $12M seed led by Accel — A trio of former Palan

NASA is advancing its Artemis program to build a crewed lunar base over the next decade near the lunar south pole , and the base will sprawl over hundreds of square miles with a perimeter marked by ho

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: OpenAI hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming as CMO for its business segment; he succeeds Kate Rouch, who stepped down earlier this year to focus on her health — OpenAI has hired

Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: OpenRouter raised 113M led by CapitalG, a source says at a 1.3B valuation, and now processes 25T tokens across 400+ models weekly, up from 5T six months ago —

Rambus Inc. today announced a complete DDR5 9600 client memory module chipset designed to push PC memory speeds to 9,600 megatransfers per second, targeting the bandwidth and capacity demands of agent

Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: Spain says it is blocking Polymarket and Kalshi as a precautionary measure while it probes possible gambling law violations over the next three to four months — The g

Pieter Haeck / Politico: The Dutch government blocks the acquisition of authentication IT supplier Solvinity by US-based Kyndryl, citing “a possible risk to the public interest” — BRUSSELS — The Dutch

After reportedly exhausting its annual AI budget just four months into 2026, Uber is now questioning whether it's actually seeing meaningful returns on its investments. In an interview with Rapid Resp

Washington Post: A section of the Pope's encyclical describing AI's unpredictability suggests influence from Anthropic, whose co-founder Christopher Olah attended the unveiling — In “Magnifica humanit

Chinese electronics giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. today unveiled a new chip design framework that it says will help it to close the gap in the semiconductor industry with global leaders like Taiw

Rack-scale infrastructure has become the defining unit of deployment as enterprises shift from individual servers to fully integrated racks to meet the extreme power and cooling demands of production

The European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, reportedly plans to issue a record fine to Google LLC over its practices in the search market. German newspaper Handelsblatt today cited so

Dropped this morning by the Vatican: Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. This is a very interesting document. It's

Financial Times: How the AI boom is transforming global M&A, now dominated by the AI-driven race to control the world's energy, fiber networks, and computing capacity — Deals hit record highs, unloved

Paige Smith / Bloomberg: Moment, which develops AI tools for automating fixed-income and equities trading tech, raised a $78M Series C led by Index Ventures, with a16z participating — Moment, the fina

Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: Quartermaster, which is building an analytics platform and a SmartMast, with sensors on a ship's mast to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $43M Series A — Oceans — to s

Matthew Prince / Wall Street Journal: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI won't replace builders or sellers, but it will affect middle managers, operations jobs, and other “measuring” positions — Th

Anusha Shah / Reuters: Delivery Hero says it received a takeover offer from Uber for €33 per share, a discount of 1.76% from Delivery Hero's close on Friday — German food delivery service Delivery Her

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Dell says it has 5,000 clients for its AI Factory, a product line of servers with Nvidia chips, software, and services, including 1,000 new clients last quarter — Dell Technolog

The shift from on-premises computing to software as a service changed the technology model and forced information technology organizatios to modernize how it builds, buys and operates software. It als

New York Times: Q&A with Sundar Pichai on the future of Google Search, Google's place in the AI race, public skepticism toward AI, AI agents, AI safety, TPUs, and more — After a busy Google I/O, the c

SpaceX successfully launched an updated version of its Starship V3 on May 22, 2026, the first test flight of the upgraded booster and upper stage designed as part of NASA's Artemis lunar program. The

This article discusses three AI infrastructure startups—Exa, Modal, and TurboPuffer—that have recently achieved unicorn status (valued at $1 billion or more). The piece likely covers their funding rou

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Filing: Zoom's stake in Anthropic is worth ~1.27B based on a February round which valued Anthropic at 380B; Zoom invested an additional 46M in recent months — Zoom Communicatio

FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service Back in 2024 Cox Media Group we

Unified AI service management lives or dies on context — and that context demands consolidating fragmented tools, data and operations into a single foundation. That consolidation imperative is now the

SpaceX scrubbed the first launch of its third-generation Starship rocket system from its Starbase, Texas facility. The countdown halted at T-40 seconds due to a hydraulic pin on the launch tower arm f

Hark Inc., a startup developing artificial intelligence devices for the consumer market, today announced that it has raised more than 700 million in funding. Parkway Venture Capital led the Series A r

Politico: Sources: David Sacks told President Trump that federal reviews of AI models before release would slow down innovation and hurt the US in its AI race with China — But during a conversation wi

Paul Vieira / Wall Street Journal: The US Ambassador to Canada accuses Canada of imposing trade barriers by requiring that US streamers contribute 15% of Canadian revenue to local programming — Remark

Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: AMD pledges to invest $10B+ in Taiwan's chip industry to make advanced chip packaging for AI, and says TSMC will ramp up production of its next-gen Venice chips — The

Steven Lee Myers / New York Times: Bluesky and Clemson researchers detail a novel Russian influence campaign that hijacked legitimate, influential accounts to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda — The compa

Enterprises have reached an agentic inflection point where the shift from AI-first experimentation to AI-native operations is forcing a fundamental redesign of infrastructure and business processes. T

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The recently announced artificial intelligence-native enterprise services firm backed by Anthropic PBC, Blackstone Inc. and Hellman & Friedman LLC has acquired Fractional AI Inc., a San Francisco-base

Finnish smart ring maker Oura Health Oy disclosed today that it has filed confidential paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering. Share count and pricin

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Spotify Labs launches Studio, a NotebookLM-like desktop app to generate private, AI-powered podcasts, in research preview across 20+ markets — One of the common features for c

I'm not sure anyone was really asking for an AI guitar pedal. But it was inevitable that someone would build one. One of the first to take the plunge is Polyend, a well-respected music gear maker with

Many of the world’s fastest-growing AI startups are choosing to build their future — and the world’s — on Google Cloud because of our complete and open AI stack. We embed AI into every layer of our ar

Databricks Genie is a conversational AI platform that enables businesses to build industry-specific solutions through natural language interactions with data. The solution allows partners to develop a

Secure access service edge firm Versa Networks Inc. today introduced a zero-trust architecture for the Model Context Protocol that validates every action an artificial intelligence agent takes inside

The security landscape is entering uncharted territory as quantum computing moves from theoretical threat to near-term enterprise reality — and the race to post-quantum encryption is one most organiza