Build has raised $8.5M led by Index Ventures for its AI that cuts data-centre and infrastructure due diligence by 95%, sold as a service, not software.

London's MDOTM raises $27M led by Expedition to scale Sphere, its AI platform that already runs over $100bn for banks and asset managers.

Belgian cyber unicorn Aikido has acquired Israeli startup Root, whose AI agents patch open-source flaws in minutes without forcing risky upgrades ...

MiCA has cut Europe's 3,000 registered crypto firms to just 244 authorized providers. Barcelona-based Venga clears the bar as even Binance winds down EU services ahead of the deadline.

OpenAI is teasing Codex Micro, a Work Louder macro pad for its AI coding tool, landing July 15, not the mysterious device it's building with Jony Ive.

NIH's All of Us released the world's largest integrated genomics and health database: 747,000 people, 535,000 genomes, just as its funding is cut.

Base44 has launched Base1, the first proprietary AI model from a vibe-coding platform, a bet that owning its model means better margins and a real moat.

AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise up to $500M at a $5bn valuation, four times its January mark, after hitting a $500M revenue run rate.

DeepSeek will double the price of its V4 AI models during peak hours from mid-July, reversing the China price war it started. Even the cheapest blinks.

LayerX tricked six AI browsers, including ChatGPT Atlas, Comet and Claude, into leaking user credentials by convincing them they were playing a game.

Henna Virkkunen and Tim Cook held a video call on 30 June about Apple, the DMA, and a Siri AI launch still blocked on EU iPhones.

Aithora founder Freddy del Barrio argues that healthcare AI is stacking point solutions on broken architecture instead of building infrastructure designed around the people it claims to protect.