Irish AI fleet-safety firm CameraMatics has raised up to €49M, led by Blume Equity with ISIF and AIB, to expand in North America and take on Samsara and Lytx.

Software is sliding, China is selling off and Apollo and KKR are flashing warnings. AI bubble fears are spreading just as SpaceX preps a record IPO.

Germany's Vsquared Ventures has opened a London office to challenge Atomico and Balderton, betting a deep-tech specialist can win on the giants' home turf.

US AI giants like Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to expand in London, taking record office space, even as the boom squeezes local UK startups.

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.

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.

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

Deezer launched a free tool that scans your Spotify, Apple Music or Tidal playlists for AI-generated tracks, as it says AI now makes up 44% of daily uploads.

The SpaceX IPO, a record $75bn deal, prices this week. How it trades will set the benchmark for the OpenAI and Anthropic listings lining up behind it.

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.

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.