Rocsys raises $13M and launches the world’s first multi-bay hands-free robotaxi charging system
Rocsys raises $13M and launches the world’s first multi-bay hands-free robotaxi charging system

The M1, an overhead rail-mounted robot that charges up to 10 vehicles per unit without human intervention, enters pilot deployment now and rolls out at scale in 2027, backed by Scania Invest and Capricorn Partners. There is a quiet irony at the heart o…

Nvidia B300 servers sell for $1 million in China, nearly double the US price
Nvidia B300 servers sell for $1 million in China, nearly double the US price

Prices have surged from roughly 4 million yuan late last year to 7 million yuan ($1 million) today, driven by the Supermicro co-founder’s arrest, tighter enforcement, and voracious demand from Chinese AI companies unwilling to hold restricted hardware …

Alphabet and Amazon outpace Meta in AI as Big Tech’s Q1 2026 earnings confirm cloud dominance
Alphabet and Amazon outpace Meta in AI as Big Tech’s Q1 2026 earnings confirm cloud dominance

Google Cloud grew 63%, AWS 28%. Meta raised its full-year capex guide to $125-$145 billion, sending its shares down 6% after hours. Combined 2026 AI spending across five hyperscalers is now on track to exceed $650 billion. The question hanging over Wed…

Anthropic is considering a funding round that would value it at over $900 billion
Anthropic is considering a funding round that would value it at over $900 billion

The company is entertaining offers for approximately $50 billion at a valuation of $850–$900 billion, with a board decision expected in May and a potential IPO as early as October 2026. Anthropic has begun weighing a fresh funding round at a valuation …

White House opposes Anthropic’s plan to expand Mythos access to 70 companies, citing compute and security concerns
White House opposes Anthropic’s plan to expand Mythos access to 70 companies, citing compute and security concerns

The Trump administration has told Anthropic it disagrees with a controlled rollout that would bring its dangerous cyberattack-capable AI to roughly 120 organisations in total, even as the White House simultaneously explores an executive order to bring …

NVIDIA and Atlassian back Legora’s $600m Series D in a $50m extension that values the legal AI startup at $5.6 billion
NVIDIA and Atlassian back Legora’s $600m Series D in a $50m extension that values the legal AI startup at $5.6 billion

The Stockholm-founded company, which crossed $100m in ARR in 18 months, has now raised $866m in total, and Nvidia’s entry marks the chip giant’s first investment in legal tech. Legora has added $50 million to its Series D round, bringing the total to $…

Earlybird closes €360M Fund VIII, its largest ever, with a new perpetual ownership model and a deeptech-first thesis
Earlybird closes €360M Fund VIII, its largest ever, with a new perpetual ownership model and a deeptech-first thesis

The Berlin firm, founded in 1997, has raised a new fund every three to four years through every market cycle. Fund VIII is oversubscribed, manages €2.5 billion across strategies, and bets heavily on AI infrastructure, foundation models, and deeptech. E…

Exclusive: Synaps raises $3.6M to build an AI design canvas for architects that could challenge AutoCAD
Exclusive: Synaps raises $3.6M to build an AI design canvas for architects that could challenge AutoCAD

Five months after a beta launch in Tirana, before some of the world’s leading architects, the Austrian-Albanian startup has 60,000 users, hundreds of paying customers, and Plug and Play on its cap table. In November 2025, Synaps, a Vienna-based AI desi…

LG Electronics and Nvidia are in talks on robotics, AI data centres, and mobility
LG Electronics and Nvidia are in talks on robotics, AI data centres, and mobility

The discussions, triggered by a visit from Nvidia’s Madison Huang, would deepen LG’s physical AI ambitions and give Nvidia another major consumer electronics partner at a moment when physical AI is moving from lab to factory floor. LG Electronics confi…

China threatens the EU with broad retaliation if Huawei and ZTE are banned from European networks
China threatens the EU with broad retaliation if Huawei and ZTE are banned from European networks

Beijing’s commerce ministry has formally submitted a 30-page document warning the European Commission that its draft Cybersecurity Act, which would make vendor removal mandatory for the first time, could trigger reciprocal measures against European com…