The Trump-family-backed miner American Bitcoin posted a $57.2m Q2 loss but grew its treasury to 8,002 coins, sticking to a mine-and-hold strategy.

Yellow.ai is merging with SPAC Bluerock to list on Nasdaq at ~$550M, and plans to buy the outsourcing firms it wants to rebuild as AI.

A home-battery company that did not exist three years ago is now worth $13bn. Base Power has raised $1bn in a Series D and launched its own battery, Base Core. The bet behind the number is blunt: the ...

We have written about why AI companies are buying up old books: printed before the internet filled with machine-made text, they are a clean source of language, free of AI slop. This is what that ...

Founders ask customers what they want. Sales teams hear what they will not pay for. The first answer is useful. The second may contain more information. A customer interview can reveal frustrations, ...

A London startup two years old has just become one of Britain’s boldest bets against Nvidia. Olix has raised $312m and tripled its valuation to $3.3bn in six months. Its founder, James Dacombe, is 25.

The software most American crime labs use to read DNA evidence carried a flaw. It let someone with the right access quietly rewrite the results, and leave almost no trace. AI made the attack easy. The ...

The Bayreuth Festival has spent 150 years guarding Richard Wagner’s music on a Bavarian hill. For its anniversary it tried something new and let artificial intelligence help stage the show. The ...

Index Ventures has raised $2bn in fresh capital, lifting its war chest to $3.5bn, and it plans to spend most of it on AI. The timing is awkward. One of the firm’s own co-founders has warned that the ...

The head of Hugging Face wants a rule that did not exist before this summer: when an AI agent breaks into something, the company behind it should have to say so. Clem Delangue, chief executive of the ...

Paris Saint-Germain has a new official AI assistant, and it belongs to Google. The Ligue 1 giants announced a multiyear partnership that names Google Gemini their official AI assistant and Google ...

The Italian cable maker has agreed to acquire the US electrical-products manufacturer in an all-cash deal worth about $3.8bn, paying $95.00 a share to push its North American business further into the ...