Upriver raised a $14M seed to automate the data engineering AI relies on, betting that clean data is where enterprise AI wins or loses.

The US-backed AI hub in the Philippines could attract $10bn and is weighing a 99-year lease to Washington, an official says, sharpening the sovereignty stakes.

German startup ShopAgentic raised €1.9M, co-led by May Ventures and Greenfield Capital, to build commerce infrastructure for AI shopping agents.

Mercedes-Benz has signed an MoU with Munich startup Tytan to build mobile anti-drone vehicles, the latest European carmaker chasing Europe's rearmament boom.

South Korea's privacy regulator fined Coupang 624.7 billion won ($409 million) after a former employee exposed 33.7 million customer accounts in the country's largest data breach.

Meta erected a data firewall and told staff to sunset Manus after Beijing ordered the $2 billion acquisition unwound. The founders are seeking $1 billion for a buyback.

Both AI labs published papers calling for a global slowdown in frontier AI development. Both also released new flagship models and filed for IPOs in the same fortnight.

China's official trade union newspaper urges regulators to protect workers as AI spreads, warning that 70 million jobs face displacement and calling for algorithm oversight.

OpenAI is wiring Visa into ChatGPT so AI agents can shop & pay at any Visa merchant, its second run at commerce, with no launch date or pricing yet.

AISLE launched Snapshot, deploying AI vulnerability detection inside air-gapped networks. The startup found all 12 OpenSSL zero-days and ranks first on Berkeley's benchmark.

Musk says true autonomy means sleeping through your commute. Tesla's Austin robotaxis crash every 57,000 miles, four times worse than the human average.

Oracle spent $55.7 billion on data centres in a single year, beat its own guidance by $5.7 billion, and wants to raise another $40 billion ...