The Dutch government will expand its investment-screening regime to cover six additional technologies, including artificial intelligence, from 1 January 2027. The rules will affect hundreds of companies, according to the Ministry of Economic Affairs. “…
SoftBank knocked Toyota off its perch as Japan’s most valuable company last week, after a stock rally inflated the conglomerate’s market capitalisation by more than $120 billion in six months. Three days later, Toyota reclaimed the top spot. The last t…
Anthropic has said its Mythos model is so good at finding software vulnerabilities that releasing it publicly could help attackers steal data or disrupt critical infrastructure. It has also, as of early June, expanded access to 150 additional organisat…
A London startup called Zaro has come out of stealth. Cherry Ventures led its $5.1mn pre-seed round. Zaro wants to build one AI workspace that a company owns, not its software vendors. Who is backing Zaro The angel list is senior for such an early roun…
Private equity buys companies, strips out costs, and flips them. A two-year-old startup called Beacon has raised hundreds of millions to do almost the opposite, and to let AI do the heavy lifting. Beacon, an “AI-native” holding company based in Toronto…
Generative AI has already changed how companies draft, summarize and search for information. The next challenge is more complex: whether AI can coordinate work across business systems while preserving controls, auditability and human accountability. Th…
The British government has put its most contentious health-tech contract on notice. It is now formally reviewing the NHS’s £330mn deal with Palantir, and weighing whether to walk away in 2027. Technology minister Liz Kendall confirmed the review this w…
The headline from Apple’s developer conference was a reborn Siri. The more interesting story sits underneath it: the AI models Apple built to run the thing, one of which is far too big to fit in an iPhone’s memory, yet runs on the device anyway. In a t…
Four months ago, AI looked like it might gut the software industry. This week, one of its biggest investors declared the threat over. The truth sits somewhere in between. Speaking at the SuperReturn International conference in Berlin, Orlando Bravo, fo…
A Shahed attack drone costs tens of thousands of euros. The missiles traditionally fired to shoot one down can cost a million or more. A French startup has raised €50mn to fix that maths. Alta Ares, a Paris-based defence-technology company founded in 2…