AI chip startup SambaNova has raised money at an $11bn valuation, roughly five times its worth a few months earlier, as investors chase Nvidia alternatives.

UK tech secretary Liz Kendall has backed driverless cars and British AI, splitting with the likely next PM Andy Burnham's team, in a Sifted podcast.

Leaked documents reveal Moonraker, Amazon's costly plan to make Alexa an AI agent that chains tasks, with over $100m in GPU costs projected for 2026.

UiPath's Daniel Dines told the Raise summit that cutting junior hiring is a mistake, as he and LDC's Guy-Laurent Arpino mapped enterprise AI's future.

Swedish vibe-coding star Lovable is in talks to raise $300m at $13.2bn, roughly doubling its December valuation, Sifted reports.

ResMed is selling its MatrixCare home-health software unit to Frazier Healthcare Partners for $490m in cash to focus on sleep and breathing care.

The US Commerce Department has cleared OpenAI to release GPT-5.6 widely, ending a preview that limited the model to about 20 vetted partners.

Amazon is raising at least $25bn in an eight-part bond sale, its biggest of the year, to bankroll a $200bn AI infrastructure push.

Perplexity says it will run its AI agent workloads on Nvidia’s new Vera CPU, an early win for Nvidia’s push into general-purpose computing.

The US Supreme Court declined to block Texas’s law forcing Apple and Google to verify users’ ages and get parental consent for minors’ app downloads.

Meta's Muse Image rolls out inside the Meta AI chatbot, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Users can generate images of friends from public Instagram posts. Opt-out available.

New Zealand denies plans to ban VPNs under its under-16 social media ban after a fierce privacy backlash, as age-check laws keep drifting toward encryption.