Vapi has raised $50m in Series B funding led by Peak XV after its voice agents handled over 1 billion calls for Amazon Ring, Intuit, and others.

Goldman Sachs and Nomura say about half of April's Chinese export growth came from AI-related goods, with total exports at a record $359bn.

Ilya Sutskever testified his OpenAI stake is worth ~$7bn, placing him among the largest individual shareholders of the AI company.

ServiceNow is looking to raise $4bn in a US high-grade bond sale to refinance the term loan funding its $7.75bn Armis Security acquisition.

The US Commerce Department has removed details of its AI security-test deal with Microsoft, Google, and xAI from its website without explanation.

Dutch health-tech Ditto has raised €7.6m led by Heal Capital to expand its patient-side AI consultation-summary app to Germany, the UK and Spain.

Ursula von der Leyen says the EU's age-verification app is ready and Commission-led rules on minimum social-media ages for children are next.

London fintech Adfin has raised $18m in Series A funding led by Index Ventures to scale its agentic money-movement platform for SMEs.

Happl has raised $11m in Series A funding led by Portage Ventures to scale its AI-native global benefits operating system across 160 countries.

Paymentology has raised $175m from Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners to scale its global issuer-processor platform across 68 countries.

Wise began trading on Nasdaq under ticker WSE after moving its primary listing from London. The fintech processed $243B in cross-border volume and is pursuing a US banking charter.

OpenAI has set up OpenAI Deployment Company with more than $4bn of initial investment from a 19-firm syndicate led by TPG.