Ghent's Companion.energy has raised €7.8mn, led by Realyze Ventures & Pi Labs, to automate real-time enterprise energy and expand into Germany & Spain ...

After Seoul talks, Nvidia & Hyundai are deepening their physical-AI alliance, with Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid & a $5.9bn Korean "AI Valley" at the centre ...

Kimi developer Moonshot AI seeks $2bn at a $30bn valuation, its third round in six months. DeepSeek wants $59bn. Zhipu sits at $80bn. China's AI funding race is accelerating.

London's PhysicsX raised $300M from Temasek at a $2.4bn valuation, doubling in a year. The F1-founded startup cuts engineering simulation from days to seconds.

Spotify is in talks with concert promoters to stream live festival footage and has struck a multi-year deal with Live Nation to reserve tickets for top fans.

Berlin's GALVANY raised €10mn from SET Ventures & AENU to scale its heat-pump platform in Germany, after revenue jumped sevenfold to €20.1mn.

NewOrbit raised $18.5M to build the first commercial VLEO satellite, flying at 200-300km where drag and atomic oxygen have kept everyone else out. First launch planned for 2028.

Florida sued OpenAI. Character.AI settled. Courts rejected Section 230 for chatbots. The legal playbook that reshaped social media is now targeting AI, with fewer defences available.

JPMorgan is hiring Tahir Zafar, Nomura's international head of AI strategy, as Jamie Dimon says the bank will hire more AI specialists and fewer bankers.

Frontier AI models find thousands of vulnerabilities but China is distilling those capabilities at scale. The US has a voluntary 30-day review. The arms race is already here.

President Sheinbaum drove the six-seat Olinia Uno prototype onto a stage in Mexico City. The government-backed EV is priced at 150,000 pesos, or about $8,600.

Korean bonds are the world's worst in 2026, down 7.5%, as the chip boom forces rate hikes. Monday's 8% Kospi crash triggered a circuit breaker while yields held near highs.