OpenAI announced a major expansion of Codex on Tuesday, transforming its AI coding agent into a broader enterprise work platform with three new capabilities: Sites, a feature that lets users create and share hosted interactive web applications; Annotat…
Focused Energy, a Germany-based fusion startup, has raised an oversubscribed $240 million Series A round to develop a commercial reactor based on the same approach that produced the world’s first controlled fusion reaction with net energy gain. The rou…
Impulse Space, the orbital transfer vehicle startup founded by Tom Mueller, has raised $500 million in a Series D round that values the company at $4.26 billion. The round was co-led by 137 Ventures and Banner VC, with participation from existing inves…
Meta is taking its “13+” content settings for Teen Accounts global. The company said today that the setting, which it likens to a movie rating, will now apply by default to teenagers across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger worldwide, extending a syst…
SoftBank, it seems, is not done buying robots. The Japanese group is in early talks to back a new funding round of around $800m (€700m) for Agile Robots, the Munich startup that builds robot arms, warehouse machines, and humanoids, according to Bloombe…
Jensen Huang’s comments at Computex defend the Samsung bonus structure that delivers $400,000 to chip engineers, but land alongside an $80bn Nvidia buyback announced two weeks ago. Jensen Huang, the Nvidia chief executive, told reporters on the sidelin…
CBA chief executive Matt Comyn used the phrase ‘work slop’ to describe the low-quality AI output now flowing through corporate workflows, as token-billed AI costs scale with task complexity. Matt Comyn, chief executive of the Commonwealth Bank of Austr…
The Huntington Beach defence-tech startup, run by a 22-year-old MIT dropout, has raised a $300M Series C at a $1.8bn valuation, nearly 4x its mark from June 2025. Mach Industries, the three-year-old defence-tech startup run by 22-year-old founder and c…
Alphabet is raising $80bn in equity, an unusually large sum for a company that has rarely needed to ask. The Google parent announced the plan on Monday to help fund what it called investment in world-class AI compute infrastructure to meet unprecedente…
GoPro warned on Monday that there is “substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern.” The action-camera maker reported a 26% revenue decline in Q1 and expects to breach several loan covenants. Shares fell as much as 14%. …