Anthropic raises Claude Code and Opus API rate limits, citing SpaceX Colossus 1 deal
Anthropic raises Claude Code and Opus API rate limits, citing SpaceX Colossus 1 deal

Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits double across Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans from Tuesday, with peak-hours throttling removed for Pro and Max. The capacity behind the change is a new Anthropic agreement to take all of SpaceX’s Colo…

Ethos lands $22.75m Series A to fix what AI broke about hiring
Ethos lands $22.75m Series A to fix what AI broke about hiring

The London-based AI expert-matching platform, founded by ex-DeepMind and ex-McKinsey alumni, is being valued at the moment hiring is becoming the part of the labour market AI has most visibly degraded. Andreessen Horowitz now leads the round; General C…

NVIDIA takes warrants for $500m in Corning stock as fibre-optics partnership goes structural
NVIDIA takes warrants for $500m in Corning stock as fibre-optics partnership goes structural

The deal pairs a 15-million-share warrant at $180 with a pre-funded warrant for 3 million more, against a Corning commitment to build three new US optical-connectivity plants and grow capacity tenfold. Corning shares closed up roughly 14 per cent. NVID…

SpaceX files for a $55bn Texas semiconductor fab, with combined chipmaking investment reaching $119bn
SpaceX files for a $55bn Texas semiconductor fab, with combined chipmaking investment reaching $119bn

The Terafab project sits alongside the existing Bastrop packaging operation. Combined, the two facilities could anchor a $119bn Texas chipmaking footprint. SpaceX has not yet disclosed the process technology Terafab will run, or the construction timeli…

Chinese chamber of commerce puts a $432bn price tag on the EU’s cybersecurity overhaul
Chinese chamber of commerce puts a $432bn price tag on the EU’s cybersecurity overhaul

A KPMG-conducted study commissioned by the CCCEU estimates that phasing Chinese suppliers out of 18 critical EU sectors between 2026 and 2030 would cost €367.8bn. Reuters’ headline rounds that down. The actual figure is materially higher. China’s chamb…

LiveEO raises €28m to take its civil-infrastructure satellite stack into European defence
LiveEO raises €28m to take its civil-infrastructure satellite stack into European defence

The Berlin geospatial-AI company has closed the first slice of a new round, with defence VC Helantic alongside Nordic Ninja, MMC, and the EIC. Most of the money funds the same product. The strategic shift is who else gets to buy it. European defence-te…

Peter Sarlin’s Qutwo hits $380m valuation in an angel round
Peter Sarlin’s Qutwo hits $380m valuation in an angel round

After selling Silo AI to AMD for $665m, the Helsinki entrepreneur is doing it again. Qutwo’s angel round prices a quantum-classical orchestration layer with no quantum hardware shipping yet, and customers already paying tens of millions for it. There i…

Samsung Electronics crosses $1tn, joining TSMC, as the AI memory cycle pulls Korea into a record
Samsung Electronics crosses $1tn, joining TSMC, as the AI memory cycle pulls Korea into a record

Samsung’s stock has more than quadrupled in a year. The KOSPI broke 7,000 for the first time. Two Korean chipmakers now account for 42% of the index. The supercycle that built this rally is, by Samsung’s own forecast, not yet at its peak. There is a pa…

Apple settles the consumer Siri lawsuit for $250m. The shareholder case is still live.
Apple settles the consumer Siri lawsuit for $250m. The shareholder case is still live.

iPhone 16 and 15 Pro buyers in the US between June 2024 and March 2025 will get $25–$95 per device. Apple admits no fault. The settled action covers consumers; the parallel securities-fraud case Apple is still trying to dismiss is structurally separate…

China’s humanoid robot boom faces reality check as 150 companies chase a market where only 23% of buyers are satisfied
China’s humanoid robot boom faces reality check as 150 companies chase a market where only 23% of buyers are satisfied

China has more than 150 humanoid robot companies. It shipped roughly 90 per cent of the world’s humanoid robots in 2025. Its two largest makers, Unitree and AgiBot, are preparing initial public offerings that would value them at a combined 13 billion d…