Norm Ai raises $120M at a $1.2B valuation to build AI-native law

Most AI legal startups sell software to law firms. Norm Ai built its own firm instead, and investors just valued the bet at $1.2 billion. Norm Ai has raised $120 million in a Series C round that value [...]

How NinjaOne went from scrappy startup to $5B challenger in the race to unify IT operations

Sal Sferlazza has a habit of building companies that get acquired. Before NinjaOne, the serial founder sold four startups in succession: a gaming studio to NCSoft, a data-protection firm to SonicWall, [...]

Musk wants a million data centre satellites. Bezos wants 51,600. Scientists want to know why.

The pitch is seductive in its simplicity: AI needs more power than terrestrial grids can supply, so move the data centres into orbit, where the sun never sets and the electricity is free. SpaceX, Blue [...]

'AI is only as strong as its data': Why Microsoft is betting on this little-known startup’s 700B parameter model to predict your next purchase

Microsoft and Yobi partner to deploy a 700 billion parameter AI model that predicts consumer intent using consented behavioral data across platforms. [...]

The question AI providers hope VPs of Engineering never ask

AI coding adoption is exploding. But most engineering leaders are still measuring usage instead of outcomes. That creates a costly blind spot. There is a question that nobody in the AI industry wants [...]

The retrieval rebuild: Why hybrid retrieval intent tripled as enterprise RAG programs hit the scale wall

Something shifted in enterprise RAG in Q1 2026. VB Pulse data spanning January through March tells a consistent story: the market stopped adding retrieval layers and started fixing the ones it already [...]

The UK Is Betting on a Billion-Dollar AI Supercomputer to Kick Its Addiction to US Tech

The British government thinks a state-backed infrastructure initiative will help supercharge homegrown chip startups. [...]

The Netherlands is screening foreign investment in AI companies from January, after letting Nexperia slip through

The Dutch government will expand its investment-screening regime to cover six additional technologies, including artificial intelligence, from 1 January 2027. The rules will affect hundreds of compani [...]

Talking to AI agents is one thing — what about when they talk to each other? New startup BAND debuts 'universal orchestrator'

For the past eighteen months, the corporate world has been obsessed with the "builder" phase of the generative AI revolution. Enterprises have raced to deploy autonomous agents to handle eve [...]