DeepSeek’s record $7.4bn raise, 381 unicorns, and two new robot unicorns show US pressure is fuelling the boom.

TIDAL will tag fully AI-generated tracks with an AI badge and block them from earning royalties, joining a growing crackdown across music streaming.

Amazon is exploring OpenAI as an alternative to Claude after a renegotiated contract with Anthropic will raise costs through token-based pricing.

Washington lobbying firms are dropping Alibaba and Tencent ahead of a Pentagon rule barring defense work for firms that also lobby for Chinese companies.

Waymo robotaxis are no longer on Uber's app in Phoenix, ending a three-year pilot as both companies pursue competing autonomous vehicle strategies.

A GitHub issue argues Microsoft's .NET LTS support is too short for enterprise upgrade cycles, with half of deployments running unsupported versions.

California struck a deal with Anthropic giving all state agencies access to Claude at half price, despite the federal government labeling it a security risk.

Taiwan prosecutors raided Super Micro's office and two affiliated companies, expanding the island's first AI chip smuggling crackdown.

Arena, the crowdsourced AI leaderboard used by every major lab, has reached 100 million dollars in annualized revenue from its paid evaluation service.

Cursor's new iOS app lets developers launch and manage independent coding agents from their phone, as AI-powered development moves beyond the desktop.

Omen AI raised a $31m Series A for a spectrometer that monitors liquid-cooling fluid in real time, catching bacterial growth before a costly flush.

SpaceX plans Starpipe, an 8-mile natural gas pipeline to Starbase, to fuel a faster Starship launch rate and own more of its supply chain.