Amazon puts up to $25 billion more into Anthropic and secures 10-year cloud commitment in return

The deal is Amazon’s second consecutive mega-round with a frontier AI lab, following a near-identical $50 billion investment in OpenAI two months ago. Anthropic’s annualised revenue has reached $3 [...]

Meta has hired five founding members of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab in a systematic talent raid

In summary: Meta has hired five founding members of Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup built by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, after she rejected a reported $1 billion acquisition offer. The most e [...]

John Ternus built Apple’s hardware for 24 years and now he has to figure out AI

Summary: John Ternus, Apple’s incoming CEO effective 1 September, is a 50-year-old mechanical engineer who reversed a period of declining product quality, personally lobbied for the creation of iPad [...]

OrangeQS raises €15M and brings hardware makers into the solution

The Dutch startup, the only company offering a dedicated commercial solution for quantum chip testing, raised a €3M extension to its June 2025 seed round from the European Innovation Council Fund. T [...]

DeepWay closes $310M in pre-IPO financing as it seeks to take Baidu-backed autonomous electric trucks global

The Hefei-based company, which has delivered 6,400 intelligent electric heavy-duty trucks in China and is targeting a Hong Kong stock market listing, has attracted an Australian superannuation fund am [...]

Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google

AI that can see and understand what's happening in a video — especially a live feed — is understandably an attractive product to lots of enterprises and organizations. Beyond acting as a secu [...]

Skyroot becomes India’s first space-tech unicorn ahead of June Vikram-1 launch

GIC and BlackRock-managed funds anchor a fresh round that more than doubles the company’s 2023 valuation. The round is timed to the planned orbital launch of Vikram-1 from Sriharikota, the first pri [...]

You're Using Your Exercise Bike Wrong if You Do These 9 Things

We asked the cycling experts to weigh in on how you could unknowingly be sabotaging your own exercise bike workouts. [...]

TikTok is making Americans want Chinese EVs they cannot buy, and tariffs were not designed for this

The United States imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles to keep them out of the American market. TikTok and YouTube are making that strategy irrelevant. A survey of 9,000 potential EV buye [...]