Architect Labs raised a $24mn seed led by Kindred Ventures to build an AI that designs & verifies custom chips, taking on Broadcom & Marvell.

Liberty Bank, the oldest mutual bank in the US with $9 billion in assets, launched an AI Center of Excellence with enterprise AI partner Flare AI.

Apple will allow alternative app marketplaces and third-party payments in Brazil starting with iOS 26.5, following a CADE antitrust settlement. The changes mirror EU concessions.

UPS detailed AI initiatives including a digital twin of its global network, agentic control towers for customers, and RFID-powered tracking across all US vehicles.

The startup rejected OpenAI's $500M bid for its gaming video data. Now it's raising $300M at a $2B valuation to train AI agents on 2 billion video game clips per year.

BMW cut its car division margin forecast to as low as 1%. Chinese brands now hold nearly 10% of Europe's car market while crushing European profits in China.

Seattle's Gradial has raised a $65mn Series C led by Insight Partners at a $675mn valuation, deploying AI agents across enterprise marketing tools.

Ford Energy will manufacture grid-scale LFP battery systems at a repurposed Kentucky plant, with first deliveries in late 2027. EDF has signed a five-year deal for up to 20 GWh.

The former PayPal CFO and Sequoia steward joins SpaceX's board as an independent director, though his ties to Musk and Sequoia's $2 billion stake complicate that label.

SURBL flags the URLs inside your emails rather than your sender IP. A single link to a flagged domain can silently disable every link in a delivered message, and most senders never realise it happened ...

Verse raised a $54mn Series B led by Bessemer, with Nvidia among backers, to help AI data centres skip the grid queue using on-site batteries.

Meta's 6,500-person Applied AI unit is in open revolt, with elite engineers drafted to label data and even the CTO calling the reorg 'atrocious'.