Amazon takes on $17.5 billion in new debt as AI spending pushes total borrowing past $225 billion
Amazon takes on $17.5 billion in new debt as AI spending pushes total borrowing past $225 billion

Amazon has agreed to a $17.5 billion delayed-draw term loan led by Citigroup, the latest in a borrowing spree fuelled by its race to build AI infrastructure. The cash is available through the end of September. Each draw has a three-year repayment windo…

NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4B in record robotics round backed by Nvidia, Amazon, and Tether
NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4B in record robotics round backed by Nvidia, Amazon, and Tether

German robotics company NEURA Robotics has announced up to $1.4 billion in Series C funding to scale its cognitive robotics platform. The round values the company at approximately $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. NEURA says it is the largest funding…

Researchers tricked an OpenClaw AI agent into leaking AWS keys and customer data with a phishing email
Researchers tricked an OpenClaw AI agent into leaking AWS keys and customer data with a phishing email

Security researchers at Varonis built an OpenClaw email agent, connected it to a Gmail inbox with fake company data, and then phished it. The agent, dubbed Pinchy, handed over AWS credentials, database connection strings, and a customer export without …

A Chinese state-linked botnet has grown to 1,500 hacked routers and is mapping vulnerable targets within hours of disclosure
A Chinese state-linked botnet has grown to 1,500 hacked routers and is mapping vulnerable targets within hours of disclosure

A covert botnet linked to Chinese state-sponsored hackers has more than doubled in size and is now scanning for newly disclosed vulnerabilities within hours of publication. The JDY botnet comprises over 1,500 compromised small office and home office ro…

BNP Paribas says the $3.6 trillion US tech IPO pipeline will pull European startups towards public markets
BNP Paribas says the $3.6 trillion US tech IPO pipeline will pull European startups towards public markets

The IPO filings by SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic have created a pipeline of US tech offerings worth approximately $3.6 trillion. That wave is going to generate appetite for European tech deals too, according to Ygal el Harrar, global head of equity cap…

The most AI-obsessed companies spend $7,500 per employee per month. The median spends $11.
The most AI-obsessed companies spend $7,500 per employee per month. The median spends $11.

The top 1% of US companies by AI adoption spend $7,500 per employee per month on AI tools and compute. The median firm spends $11.38. That 680x gap, drawn from the Ramp AI Index, is the clearest picture yet of how unevenly AI spending is distributed ac…

Trump Media drops Truth Social spinoff, refocuses on $6 billion fusion merger with TAE Technologies
Trump Media drops Truth Social spinoff, refocuses on $6 billion fusion merger with TAE Technologies

Trump Media & Technology Group, TAE Technologies, and Texas Ventures Acquisition III have decided not to proceed with a planned spinoff of Truth Social and other media assets. The three companies said in a statement on Wednesday that Trump Media an…

India froze Starlink approvals over Iran fears, days before SpaceX’s record IPO
India froze Starlink approvals over Iran fears, days before SpaceX’s record IPO

India has effectively frozen the approvals Starlink needs to begin commercial operations in the country. Security agencies under India’s Ministry of Home Affairs withheld final clearances after SpaceX allowed Starlink access inside Iran despite not hav…

Anthropic’s CEO says he doesn’t know if Claude was used in the Iran school strike that killed 120 children
Anthropic’s CEO says he doesn’t know if Claude was used in the Iran school strike that killed 120 children

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he does not know what role his company’s AI model Claude played in a missile strike that killed an estimated 120 children at an elementary school in Minab, Iran, on February 28. In an interview on Bloomberg’s The Circuit…

Russia unbans Roblox after 63,000 children wrote letters of complaint, half saying they wanted to leave the country
Russia unbans Roblox after 63,000 children wrote letters of complaint, half saying they wanted to leave the country

Russia restored access to Roblox on Wednesday after concluding the company had complied with local legal requirements, the Interfax news agency reported. The gaming platform had been blocked since December 3, cutting off an estimated 18 million monthly…