Lovable makes Google Cloud a primary partner to win over corporate buyers
Lovable makes Google Cloud a primary partner to win over corporate buyers

The Swedish app-builder, processing a million new projects a week, is making Google Cloud a primary partner, with Gemini models and a security layer aimed at corporate buyers. The pitch behind Lovable has always been that anyone can build software by c…

EU court frees Meta’s Marketplace from gatekeeper rules but keeps Messenger in
EU court frees Meta’s Marketplace from gatekeeper rules but keeps Messenger in

The General Court annulled the Commission’s designation of Marketplace under the Digital Markets Act, faulting its reasoning, while upholding the same label for Messenger. Meta walked into the EU’s General Court asking it to strike down two gatekeeper …

Factorial raises $150M at a $2.5bn valuation, with General Catalyst betting twice
Factorial raises $150M at a $2.5bn valuation, with General Catalyst betting twice

General Catalyst has decided it wants exposure to Factorial in two ways at once. The Barcelona software company has closed a $150M Series D led by the firm at a $2.5bn valuation, and General Catalyst is committing a further $540M through a separate veh…

DeepSeek lines up its first outside money: a $7bn round at up to $59bn
DeepSeek lines up its first outside money: a $7bn round at up to $59bn

DeepSeek has spent eighteen months as the most talked-about AI lab that almost nobody could invest in. That is about to change. The Chinese startup is slated to raise roughly 50 billion yuan, about $7bn, in its first external funding round, according t…

UK regulator imposes new rules on Google search, including an AI-training opt-out
UK regulator imposes new rules on Google search, including an AI-training opt-out

Britain’s competition regulator has stopped consulting and started ordering. On Wednesday the Competition and Markets Authority imposed new conduct requirements on Google’s search services, the first concrete obligations to follow from its decision to …

GitLab to cut 14% of staff and exit 22 countries in ‘agentic era’ restructuring
GitLab to cut 14% of staff and exit 22 countries in ‘agentic era’ restructuring

GitLab is cutting about 14% of its full-time workforce, roughly 350 people, and pulling out of 22 countries, based on their report for the first quarter of the fiscal year 2027,  in which it grew revenue 23% and beat Wall Street’s expectations. The res…

Musk allies back a private-sector DOGE as ex-staffers launch Special
Musk allies back a private-sector DOGE as ex-staffers launch Special

The Department of Government Efficiency is gone, quietly wound down after a year that produced more controversy than confirmed savings. Two of its former staffers have decided the idea was sound and the venue was wrong. On Tuesday they unveiled Special…

Trump quietly signs a downsized AI executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit models for review 30 days before release
Trump quietly signs a downsized AI executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit models for review 30 days before release

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday establishing a voluntary framework for government review of frontier AI models before public release, ending weeks of internal White House conflict over how aggressively to regulate the technology. T…

Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half
Microsoft used agentic AI to make its quantum chip 1,000 times more reliable, then cut its timeline to a scalable quantum computer in half

Microsoft has unveiled Majorana 2, a next-generation topological quantum chip whose qubits are 1,000 times more reliable than those in the first Majorana chip introduced last year. The improvement is so significant that Microsoft has cut its timeline f…

Microsoft just announced a new operating system for devices that don’t run apps, only AI agents
Microsoft just announced a new operating system for devices that don’t run apps, only AI agents

Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at Build 2026, a new chip-to-cloud platform designed from the ground up for devices that run AI agents instead of traditional applications. The platform includes a lightweight operating system built on AOSP, enterprise…