Standing Ovation raises €30M to commercialise casein made from dairy waste

The Paris-based precision fermentation startup has already validated industrial-scale production of its Advanced Casein with Bel Group. The Series B will fund its US commercial rollout in 2026, with E [...]

Oracle is cutting up to 30,000 employees to pay for AI data centres

Employees across the US, India, Canada, and Mexico woke up on 31 March to termination emails from “Oracle Leadership” with no prior warning. TD Cowen estimates the cuts will affect 18% of Oracle� [...]

Anthropic's new "J-lens" reveals a silent workspace inside Claude that mirrors a leading theory of consciousness

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company, published a sweeping research paper on Sunday revealing that its Claude language models have spontaneously developed an internal structure that mirrors [...]

Two arrested after gunfire near Sam Altman’s home, days after Molotov attack

Two people were arrested after shots were fired near Sam Altman’s San Francisco home on Sunday, two days after a separate suspect threw a Molotov cocktail at the property and threatened to burn down [...]

UK impact VC Eka Ventures closes second fund at $107M

When Eka Ventures held the final close of its first fund at £68 million in 2021, the London-based firm staked a claim that few UK VCs were willing to make at the time: that impact investing and ventu [...]

OpenAI’s new $100 ChatGPT Pro plan targets Claude Max with five times the Codex access

In short: OpenAI launched a new $100 per month Pro plan for ChatGPT on 9 April 2026, inserting a new tier between the existing $20 Plus plan and the $200 Pro plan and directly targeting Anthropic’s [...]

AI is making us faster, more productive, and worse at thinking

AI is everywhere, the pressure to adopt it is relentless, and the evidence that it’s making us smarter is getting thinner by the quarter. On New Year’s Day 2026, a programmer named Steve Yegge lau [...]

Tencent is building an enterprise empire on top of an Austrian developer’s open-source lobster

Tencent Holdings has launched ClawPro, an enterprise AI agent management platform built on OpenClaw, the open-source framework that has become the fastest-growing project in GitHub’s history and the [...]

Penemue raises €1.7M to scale AI hate speech detection

The German startup detects online hate, digital violence, and disinformation across 89 languages in real time, and works with public prosecutors and police alongside commercial clients. Investors were [...]