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Applied Aerospace & Defense raises $650M in an IPO the market wanted ten times over
DeepSeek lines up its first outside money: a $7bn round at up to $59bn
France’s Quobly raises €115M to put a quantum computer on a silicon chip
Flok Health raises $12.5M to scale an AI physiotherapist the NHS lets work unsupervised
Megaport raises A$827M to build a distributed AI cloud and chase the inference market
Gigaton raises $26M to rip out the control software running heavy industry
UK regulator imposes new rules on Google search, including an AI-training opt-out
GitLab to cut 14% of staff and exit 22 countries in ‘agentic era’ restructuring
Musk allies back a private-sector DOGE as ex-staffers launch Special
Kodesage raises $6.6M to drag enterprise legacy software into the AI era, without it leaving the building
UK committee urges break clause on Palantir’s £330M NHS data contract
ChatGPT hits 1 billion monthly users faster than any app before it
Trump quietly signs a downsized AI executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit models for review 30 days before release
Poland will introduce a “sovereignty test” for government tech purchases as Tusk warns AI dependency has reached dangerous proportions
RogueDB introduces a simplified database platform designed to reduce infrastructure work for startups and IT teams
The EU’s €20 billion plan for five AI gigafactories is falling apart before the first bid is even submitted
Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half
Perplexity built an “air-traffic controller” that decides in real time whether your AI query runs on your PC or in the cloud

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