Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang are charging $25,000 a day to train Wall Street banks on AI tools they have already bought. They’re booked out for two months.

GSR Ventures is raising $350M for a new China fund, using its early stake in $50bn-valued RedNote as the central draw for new LPs, Bloomberg reports.

Spotify is testing 650 narrated long-form articles from The Atlantic, WIRED, Vogue and others inside the audiobook tier, marking a quiet return to journalism.

Quantinuum, the Honeywell-majority-owned quantum-computing firm, is targeting a $12.7bn IPO valuation, well below the $20bn-plus whispers earlier this month.

Tel Aviv firm Gambit Security says Iranian hackers exfiltrated 700GB of LA Metro data in March and traces the server to a known Tehran-linked operation.

Reuters reports SpaceX has asked the Pentagon to pay around $25,000 per Starlink terminal, up from $5,000, as US strike drones over Iran depend on the network.

UAE-based SPARQ has opened an $8.5M seed round for its AI-native game engine, with the a16z Scout Fund participating early.

Foreign-brand smartphone shipments to China rose 1.8% YoY in April to 3.59m handsets, a sharp slowdown after a Q1 in which iPhones grew above 40%.

BNP Paribas is helping Mistral build a European sovereign answer to Anthropic’s restricted Mythos cybersecurity AI, Bloomberg reports.

Pony AI raised its 2026 robotaxi fleet target to more than 3,500 vehicles after Q1 robotaxi revenues rose 395% year-on-year and the fleet passed 1,700.

Helsinki startup Avrea, founded by Aiven’s Hannu Valtonen and Nosto’s Juha Valvanne, has raised $4.7M led by Earlybird to accelerate CI/CD for AI-heavy engineering teams.

Spain has temporarily blocked Polymarket and Kalshi for operating without a gambling licence, joining a widening European crackdown on US prediction markets.