Fish Audio raised $52m for voice AI it gives away for free, charging enterprises for speed & uptime. Its 2M-voice library is the moat & the risk.

NextEra and Brookfield plan a Kentucky data-centre campus worth up to $100bn, Bloomberg reports, pairing the largest US utility with a $100bn AI fund.

As AI agents start transacting online, payment systems built for humans cannot keep up. The x402 Foundation, backed by Visa, Mastercard, Google, and Stripe, is building a standard for ...

Act Security exits stealth with $60m from Medigate's founders. The bet: AI outpaces patching, so remove the dormant cloud access flaws rely on.

Options imply a ~$190bn post-earnings swing for Microsoft, an unusually large move, as investors demand proof its heavy AI spending is paying off.

ChipAgents, an Nvidia partner building AI agents that design and verify semiconductors, has raised $60m, taking its total to around $134m.

Apple Upgrade lets US buyers lease an iPhone from $17.99/mo through Klarna, and ends the 2015 iPhone Upgrade Program. It changes how the price feels, not the price.

Richard Socher's Recursive put about two-thirds of its $650m raise into one multi-year AWS compute deal, and calls it the smallest it will sign.

The UK’s CMA is investigating whether Microsoft misled 365 customers when it raised prices and bundled in Copilot, obscuring a cheaper Classic plan.

Visa is cutting 7% of staff, mostly in tech and product, and reinvesting in stablecoins and cross-border payments. Its memo names AI as an accelerant.

Freehand has raised $75M co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad to scale AI agents that manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 firms.

China’s internet regulator has published draft cyberbullying rules that, per Reuters, cover AI-enabled abuse, with heavy detection and logging duties on platforms.