Sequoia and Nvidia back AlphaGo creator David Silver’s Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1 billion

Silver left Google DeepMind in late 2025 after more than a decade building AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaStar, and contributing to Gemini. Ineffable Intelligence was incorporated in November 2025 and has n [...]

Vinted reaches €8 billion valuation in €880 million secondary share sale led by EQT

Schroders Capital and Teachers’ Venture Growth join as new investors. The transaction gives early investors and long-serving employees a route to liquidity. Vinted says it is ‘IPO-ready’ but has [...]

Lyzr used its own AI agent to help raise a $100mn round

A startup that builds artificial-intelligence agents for large companies has turned that software on itself, using one of its own agents to help run a $100 million fundraise. Lyzr, an enterprise AI ag [...]

Google is killing Assistant on phones September 4. Gemini is the only option left.

Google confirmed in emails to users that Assistant on Android phones will shut down starting September 4, forcing everyone to Gemini. The process may take several weeks to complete, so holdouts may ge [...]

Tesla sued over fatal Texas crash the driver says happened on Autopilot

A wrongful-death suit filed days after a Model 3 ploughed into a Katy home leans on the same argument that produced last year’s $243m Florida verdict. The family of a 76-year-old woman killed when a [...]

Main Capital raised the Netherlands’ biggest-ever fund on boring software

While public markets panic that AI will gut enterprise software, a quiet Dutch firm just raised €5.25bn on the opposite bet. Main Capital’s pitch: boring, essential software is exactly where the n [...]

A British AI-chip startup is raising at $6.5bn after an Anthropic deal

Fractile, a British startup building chips for artificial intelligence, is in advanced talks to raise money at a valuation more than six times what it fetched three months ago, Bloomberg reported. The [...]

Moonshot plans to list in Hong Kong within six months at a $30 billion valuation

Moonshot AI has told investors it is preparing to list in Hong Kong in as soon as six months, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The company has distributed a shareholder resolution seeking backing for t [...]

Attacks on US firms have moved from stealing data to stopping production

Reuters has been keeping a running tally of American companies breached during 2026, and read end to end, it is more instructive than any single entry in it. The names run from Nike and Coca-Cola to N [...]