Airwallex raises $320M at an $11bn valuation
Airwallex raises $320M at an $11bn valuation

Airwallex has raised $320M at an $11bn valuation, up from $8bn in December. The payments company is now pivoting to “autonomous finance” and AI agents that transact on your behalf. Airwallex, the global payments platform, has raised $320m in a Series H…

There’s a very real human problem at the heart of the AI revolution
There’s a very real human problem at the heart of the AI revolution

The era of AI was ushered in with dazzling displays of its seemingly endless capabilities and a promise to change the world. After OpenAI sparked the generative AI boom in 2022, the pace and scale of AI growth in just about every major industry have be…

Alan raises €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5bn valuation
Alan raises €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5bn valuation

French insurtech Alan has raised €480M led by Prosus at a €5.5bn valuation, just months after its last round. The Paris company is betting that AI-driven prevention can reshape health insurance. Alan, the French health insurance company, has raised €48…

Repositioning retail for the AI era

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping retail, but not in the ways consumers might immediately notice. The biggest transformation may not be flashy virtual try-ons or chatbot shopping assistants, but in how decisions are made behind the scenes: how products surface in search results, how inventory moves through supply chains, how engineers ship code faster, and…

Anthropic claims that China’s Alibaba used 25,000 fake accounts and 28.8 million exchanges to illicitly ‘distill’ its Claude model — violations occurred from April to June 2026

AI tech giant Alibaba, often considered as the Amazon of China, is being accused by Anthropic for using Claude to train its AI models. The American AI startup claimed that it traced over 25,000 accounts to operators that were affiliated with Alibaba and Alibaba Qwen.

Upwind launches AI Sensor for Endpoints as security teams grapple with AI’s expanding reach
Upwind launches AI Sensor for Endpoints as security teams grapple with AI’s expanding reach

When cloud computing transformed enterprise IT, security vendors followed the workloads. Visibility into cloud infrastructure became a central requirement as organizations shifted applications and data into new environments. Artificial intelligence is …

As Hollywood jobs dry up, workers are quietly training AI models to survive

As Hollywood jobs grow scarce, writers, editors, and executives are quietly taking AI training gigs just to make ends meet, even as the pay is unstable and the work chaotic.

Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness
Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness

The actor and MEP Eva Maydell revealed RSL Media’s Human Consent Registry at the European Parliament, a tool that lets anyone set the terms on which AI can use their name, face and voice. The context is disarmingly simple: your face, your voice, your n…

Micron’s revenue quadrupled as AI memory demand pushes gross margins above 81 percent
Micron’s revenue quadrupled as AI memory demand pushes gross margins above 81 percent

Micron Technology posted fiscal third-quarter revenue of nearly $42bn, quadrupling from just over $9bn a year earlier and beating Wall Street estimates by a wide margin. The results, reported on Tuesday, confirm that the company riding the AI memory bo…