HyperLight has raised an $80mn Series C led by MediaTek to scale its thin-film lithium niobate photonics for the optical interconnects AI data centres need.

France has mobilised another €13bn through its Tibi initiative, the insurer-backed model Europe keeps studying, now aimed at funding scale-ups continent-wide.

John Edwards has resigned as the UK's information commissioner after admitting 'inappropriate' humour, the first such resignation in its 40-year history.

Two campaigns this week, TeamPCP's 1,000 poisoned open-source packages and the abuse of Claude's own chat feature, show trust is the new attack surface.

A 6th Circuit panel ruled Ohio can require parental consent before under-16s use social media, reviving a law the tech ...

Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill to tax the biggest AI firms 50%, fund a $7tn public wealth fund, and pay every American over $1,000 a year.

Google's AI Overviews repeatedly presented SCP Foundation horror fan-fiction as fact, Futurism found, in at least 20 cases, with no fiction disclaimer.

Ahead of its IPO, OpenAI has hired Dean Ball, the architect of Trump's AI Action Plan, to lead a new policy team, days after poaching Google's Shazeer.

Miami startup Subquadratic claims its SubQ model breaks the 'quadratic attention' bottleneck. Independent tests back much of it, but doubts remain.

A new Haberman & Swan book claims Trump privately mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos for currying favour, showing Musk their texts as 'first-class groveling'.

Reliance Jio has filed for what could be India's biggest-ever IPO, and used the same AGM to unveil a $15bn satellite network to rival Starlink.

Google is copying Nvidia's playbook, using financial guarantees and circular financing, to win customers for its TPUs and loosen its grip on AI chips.