The danger isn’t the AI model. It’s the agent acting on its own, and Zenity raised $125m to watch it.

Most of the money spent guarding AI has gone to the model and the prompt. Zenity has just raised $125m on a different argument: both miss the real danger. That danger is the AI agent that acts on its [...]

The AI cloud is heading into the vault. CoreWeave is taking it to the spies.

The AI cloud is heading into the vault. CoreWeave rents high-end GPUs to the biggest AI labs. Now it wants to run that same cloud inside the sealed facilities where America keeps its secrets, with the [...]

Oak raised $60M to give every user, machine, and AI agent one identity system

Most companies still cannot say who, or what, has access to their systems at any given moment. Oak, an Israeli startup, has raised $60M to fix that, and it is betting AI agents make the problem urgent [...]

The Brexit bill comes due: ten years, seven prime ministers, and an economy 6% smaller than it should be

Ten years ago today, 52% of the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. The decade that followed delivered seven prime ministers, a permanently weakened currency, and an economy that a l [...]

Stark Defence raises €500M led by Sequoia and Founders Fund at a valuation above €3.5 billion

Stark Defence, the Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, has raised €500 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital and Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Bloomberg reported on Monday. The d [...]

Google taps its alumni network for a new AI startup incubator

Google is building an AI startup incubator that draws on its network of former employees, the so-called “Xooglers”, according to Bloomberg. The pitch is neat in its logic: as some of the company� [...]

Micron and Anthropic sign a multi-year AI memory supply deal

The chipmaker will supply high-bandwidth memory, DRAM, and SSDs for Claude’s data centres, run Anthropic’s models internally, and take a stake in its latest funding round. Micron Technology and An [...]

ShinyHunters published 45GB of Madison Square Garden data, including facial recognition surveillance records

The cybercrime group ShinyHunters has published 45 gigabytes of data stolen from Madison Square Garden Entertainment after the company missed a June 15 ransom deadline. The dump includes facial recogn [...]

Anthropic’s near-$2tn IPO rests on a revenue forecast for 2028

According to a Reuters exclusive, the AI lab’s initial public offering hinges on an internal forecast that it will book between $190bn and $200bn of revenue in 2028, a previously unreported figure t [...]