Whatnot, the livestream-shopping platform, is in talks to raise at about a $20bn valuation, up from $11.5bn in late 2024, as live commerce grows in the West.

Bloom Security emerges from stealth with a $20M seed led by Glilot Capital and Ten Eleven Ventures. The Tel Aviv startup argues that AI agents, MCP servers, and browser extensions have turned every ...

AEREDIUM has been granted a U.S. patent for a multi-model AI system that continuously verifies digital asset reserves, records verdicts on-chain, and can automatically halt token transactions when ...

The EU has opened a €30bn call for up to seven AI gigafactories to rival the US and China, though only ~€1bn is committed and the chips remain American.

EY has built an “AI router” that steers tasks to cheaper models to control token costs, as its survey finds 82% of firms worried about AI bills.

Sam Altman calls “cognitive atrophy” an underappreciated AI risk, echoing researchers who warn that letting AI think for us can weaken our own minds.

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has filed civil proceedings against Telegram, alleging it failed to remove terrorist videos. Telegram says it will contest the case.

Relation unveiled MORGAN, an AI “foundation model of the cell,” plus a GSK deal worth up to $110m to make the data to train it.

Procore is buying DroneDeploy for about $845m to give its construction AI “digital coworkers” eyes on the jobsite, via drones, robots and cameras.

Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro is exploring turning Disney+ into a “super app” that folds in parks, tickets, games and merchandise, to compete with Netflix.

Gartner predicts that by 2029 most privacy incidents will stem from what AI infers about people, not leaked data, a shift from data to insight exposure.

Onyx Security raised a $113m Series B led by Bessemer at about $640m, four months out of stealth, to control the AI agents taking over enterprise work.