Chamath’s AI coding startup 8090 raises $135M, and he’s CEO
Chamath’s AI coding startup 8090 raises $135M, and he’s CEO

Salesforce led the Series A, which 8090 announced this week. The pitch behind it is blunt. AI can already write code. The hard part is stopping enterprise software from falling apart as dozens of agents and engineers change it every week. TechCrunch fi…

Volkswagen Crisis Revives CO2 Rules Attack And China Tariffs Call

VW’s crisis may force the EU to dilute its plan to impose an electric-vehicle monopoly on the new car market by 2035 or extend EV tariffs on China.

AI-Generated Fake Receipts Are Changing Expense Fraud

AI-generated fake receipts are making expense fraud cheaper, easier, and harder to detect, forcing companies to rethink how they verify employee claims.

Court Hands Graduate Nursing Students A Temporary Borrowing Reprieve

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Education Department’s narrow definition of “professional degree,” reopening a fight that could affect primary care’s future.

The Biggest Mistake High-Achieving Students Make On College Applications

A student bragged on TikTok that he climbed Kilimanjaro, wrote about it in his essay and got into Yale. Another student thought she could use the same ploy.

Why Sequoia And A16z Paid $40 Million For A Plumbing Dispatch Seat

One startup pays cleaners to film your kitchen while another gets paid to run plumbing dispatch. Both are chasing the data the physical world never uploaded.

How This New Fintech Billionaire Is Cashing In On Cross-Border Payments

Amid allegations of sharing customer data with China, Australian payments startup Airwallex, now valued at $11 billion, is gunning for Stripe and Ramp.

Apple’s suppliers are racing to Hong Kong to fund their robot pivot
Apple’s suppliers are racing to Hong Kong to fund their robot pivot

Two of Apple’s biggest Chinese suppliers are racing to Hong Kong in the same week. Luxshare wants about $3bn, Lingyi just banked $1.1bn. Both are using the cash to pivot from smartphone parts to AI hardware and humanoid robots. The companies that build…

Hadrian’s reported $7.5bn round and the physical-AI rush
Hadrian’s reported $7.5bn round and the physical-AI rush

Bloomberg says defense-factory startup Hadrian is in talks to raise as much as $1bn at a $7.5bn valuation. Hadrian calls that “inaccurate”. Either way, the rumour shows how hot physical AI and US reindustrialisation have become. Here is a number, and a…

Main Capital raised the Netherlands’ biggest-ever fund on boring software
Main Capital raised the Netherlands’ biggest-ever fund on boring software

While public markets panic that AI will gut enterprise software, a quiet Dutch firm just raised €5.25bn on the opposite bet. Main Capital’s pitch: boring, essential software is exactly where the next decade of value sits. Charly Zwemstra has spent 23 y…