Disney is preparing a July beta of an AI tool that generates TV ads, joining Google, Meta and TikTok, just as brands grow wary of AI 'slop'.

Databricks is buying Panther Labs, its third cybersecurity deal, to build a 'security lakehouse' and take on Splunk and CrowdStrike with AI agents.

Copia raised $26mn, taking its total to $55mn, to bring version control and backups to the PLC code running factories and critical infrastructure.

Andera raised a $37mn Series A led by Lightspeed to automate internal audit with AI, taking on the Excel-heavy grind that has barely changed since 2002.

Flagright raised a $12.5mn Series A led by Infinity Ventures for its 'AI operating system' that helps banks catch fraud and money laundering in real time.

hat breadth is VivaTech’s real achievement at 10: it has become the place where Europe gathers to be ambitious out loud. The first edition drew 45,000 curious visitors to see what the fuss was about.

General Atlantic is in talks to lead a $2bn round for Kuaishou's Kling AI at $18bn, a rare US bet on Chinese AI as Beijing tells firms to refuse US money.

Voice AI startup Bland raised a $50mn Series C led by Dell Technologies Capital, betting its own in-house models can handle the calls that need a human.

The AI bubble met record debt, metered pricing, job churn and export bans in one week. Why 2026 is AI's reckoning.

A retail association argues AI-generated ads should be exempt from the EU AI Act’s Article 50 transparency rules before they bite in August.

Some early Mythos testers, including Dragos and Cisco, kept preview access after a US export order shut other versions down; ENISA was cut off.

Turkey’s Competition Board approved Uber’s $335m purchase of Getir’s delivery arm, tied to a $500m investment pledge.