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A $5M tech-worker PAC is taking on Big Tech’s $100M war chest over AI rules
Disney is joining the AI-ad arms race, just as audiences turn on ‘slop’
GitHub for the factory floor: Copia raises $26M to protect the code that runs industry
‘Fight fire with fire’: Databricks is buying Panther Labs to challenge Splunk and CrowdStrike with AI
The Big Four bill by the hour. Andera just raised $37M to let AI do the audit.
He spent 15 months hunting for compliance software that didn’t exist. So he built Flagright, which just raised $12.5M.
VivaTech turns 10 and bets everything on AI that actually works
General Atlantic wants to back China’s Kling AI at $18bn. Beijing is telling its AI firms to refuse US money.
Rejected by 180 investors, Bland just raised $50M to prove voice AI is the future
The AI bubble didn’t pop. It sent the bill
Retailers want AI-generated ads exempt from EU transparency rules
Early users of Anthropic’s Mythos still have access after US order
Meta signs new AI computing deals with data-centre firm Crusoe
Higgsfield launches enterprise marketing agents built on NVIDIA, claiming 78 per cent of Fortune 500 as clients
Turkey clears Uber’s acquisition of Getir’s delivery business
Hyundai to buy SoftBank’s last Boston Dynamics stake for $325m
China tightens indium phosphide checks as AI demand climbs
Alibaba Cloud opens first data centres in France as the EU tightens rules on foreign cloud providers

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