Microsoft’s three-year .NET support window is too short for enterprises, developers say

A developer has reopened a long-standing complaint about Microsoft’s support policy for its .NET development platform, arguing in a new GitHub issue that the three-year window for long-term support [...]

ASML spinout Invisix raises €20M to see inside the chips optics can’t

Modern chips have a measurement problem that sounds almost philosophical: they have become too complex to look at. As logic and memory devices stack into three dimensions and shrink to a few nanometre [...]

India’s Udaan secures $160 million in new funding as it races to fix its balance sheet before an IPO

Indian B2B ecommerce platform Udaan has secured $160 million in a funding round that combines fresh equity from a new investor, additional debt, and the conversion of existing convertible bonds into e [...]

Apple skips its high-end M6 chips for an AI-first M7

Apple is breaking its own playbook. It will skip the high-end versions of its M6 chip and leap to an AI-focused M7 line. Apple M7 chips, not the M6, will power its best Macs from 2027. Apple has chang [...]

a16z is backing Runta, a startup that wants to ‘parent’ your AI agents

AI agents can now book travel, write code and spend money on your behalf. That power is also the problem. A new startup called Runta has raised $20 million to keep those agents from doing damage. Andr [...]

Nvidia-backed Verse raises $54M to help AI data centres skip the power queue

For years, the scarce resource in AI was chips. Now it is power. Verse Enterprises wants to unblock that bottleneck. The San Francisco startup has raised an oversubscribed $54mn Series B. Bessemer Ven [...]

Starling’s FY26 profit dips again as the neobank provisions for more credit losses

The Goldman-backed UK challenger has booked a second consecutive annual decline as it takes additional expected-credit-loss provisions, on top of the FY25 fallout from the BBLS Covid-loan compliance i [...]

Anthropic will give defenders what its strongest model finds, but not the model itself

Anthropic has made Claude Mythos 5 available for code scanning in Claude Security and is integrating it into partners’ defensive products, with users receiving outputs rather than direct access to t [...]

Lightspeed is selling its OpenAI stake to a fund it will also run

The firm calls the deal Project Mercury, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with it. It gathers assets from two Lightspeed funds, Select V and Opportunity II, plus a separately managed account [...]