Li Auto, BYD, Nio, and Xpeng have all built custom autonomous driving silicon. Nvidia's dominance in China's largest auto market is under threat.

Probably raised $9M, co-led by a16z and Accel, to catch AI hallucinations with a 'harness' that lets weak, local models hit near-perfect accuracy.

Hydra Host raised a $100M Series A led by Kindred Ventures, with Nvidia backing, to scale its 'AI factory' operating system and GPU-broker network.

Commodore's Callback 8020 is a $499 retro flip phone that runs Android apps like Spotify and Uber but blocks browsers and social media at the system level.

The US Justice Department intervened to back xAI in the NAACP's pollution suit, arguing Musk's gas-burning data centre is vital to military operations.

Meta's Threads passed 500 million monthly users and added 'Your Algo', a private feed-control tool X lacks, as it leans into communities and live chat.

Password has acquired Israeli startup Apono, reportedly for $250m to $300m, to govern what humans, machines and AI agents can access inside company systems.

SpaceX has signed a binding, all-stock deal to buy Cursor maker Anysphere at a $60bn value, days after its record IPO. The merger is set to close in Q3.

SoftBank and OpenAI launch 'Patching as a Service', an OpenAI-powered tool to find & fix cyber vulnerabilities at Japan's critical-infrastructure firms.

SailPoint plans to buy Tel Aviv's Entro, reportedly for about $200m, to add non-human identity discovery to its Agentic Fabric platform.

SpaceX rose more than 10% on Tuesday, lifting its value near $2.8tn and past Amazon, days after the largest IPO in history.

PM Sebastien Lecornu has pledged €655m for AI, including one sovereign chatbot for roughly a million French state employees.