Nvidia-backed Firmus targets $2bn ASX IPO after locking in $505m equity and $10bn Blackstone debt for its AI factory network

In short: Australian AI data centre company Firmus has raised $505m at a $5.5bn valuation in what it says is its final pre-IPO round, and is now targeting a $2bn listing on the ASX in June or July, b [...]

EIB lends PLD Space €30M to finish building its MIURA 5 rocket

The venture debt facility, backed by InvestEU and signed on 7 April, takes PLD Space’s total 2026 fundraising to €210 million following its €180 million Series C in March. MIURA 5 is on track fo [...]

neuroClues closes €10M Series A to bring its eye-tracking Parkinson’s diagnostic to European and US neurologists

The French-Belgian medtech uses a portable headset to capture up to 800 infrared images per eye per second, extracting oculomotor biomarkers that can indicate Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and multipl [...]

Anthropic in talks to invest $200m in private equity venture to push Claude deeper into enterprise

In short: Anthropic is in negotiations to anchor a new joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Permira that would embed Claude across private equity portfolio companies, investing [...]

HexemBio raises $10.4M for a stem cell rejuvenation therapy

The Berkeley biotech is backing a Nature-published approach that recreates the embryonic environment where blood stem cells first form, rather than reprogramming aged cells chemically or genetically. [...]

LLM-referred traffic converts at 30-40% — and most enterprises aren't optimizing for it

For more than two decades, digital discovery has operated on a simple model: search, scan, click, decide. That worked when humans were the ones doing the web searching; but with the advent of AI agent [...]

Joby and Air Space Intelligence team up to manage US electric air taxi skies

In short: Joby Aviation and Air Space Intelligence have announced a partnership to integrate AI-driven airspace management into U.S. electric air taxi operations, using ASI’s Flyways AI platform to [...]

Trump’s FY27 budget would cut $700M from CISA and kill election security

In short: The Trump administration’s FY2027 budget proposes cutting $707 million from CISA, eliminating the agency’s election security programme entirely and shedding 860 positions, a dramatic es [...]

Google Maps uses Gemini to write captions for your photos

In short: Google Maps now uses Gemini to suggest captions when users share photos of places, launching on iOS in the U.S. and expanding globally to Android in the coming months, the latest step in a [...]