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. [...]

Researchers trained an open source AI search agent, Harness-1, that outperforms GPT-5.4 on recalling relevant information

A joint research collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), UC Berkeley, and the open source AI-native vector database platform Chroma unveiled Harness [...]

NinjaOne’s valuation more than doubles to $12.3bn, and it says it didn’t even need the money

Most startups raise money because they need it. NinjaOne has just raised more than $400m to make the opposite point. The Austin-based IT-operations company said on Tuesday that a fresh round of Series [...]

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 [...]

How AI is powering the next wave of micro-SaaS entrepreneurs

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how software businesses are built, launched, and scaled. In particular, it is driving a surge in micro-SaaS startups, small, highly focused software-as-a-service c [...]

Robinhood's second venture fund debuted on NYSE, raising $225.5 million for retail investors

RVII opened at $22.50 after pricing 8 million shares at $25 each, giving retail investors access to early-stage startups [...]

A startup that builds offensive cyber weapons just became a $1bn unicorn

Most cybersecurity startups sell shields. Twenty sells the sword, and investors just valued that at $1bn. The company, which describes itself as America’s first venture-backed cyber warfare firm, ha [...]

'We've proven that carbon removal technology can work': Google, Anthropic, Salesforce and others pledge nearly $1 billion on new environmental push

Google, Anthropic and others commit to buying future carbon removal credits to help today's startups get funding. [...]

A Kazakh fund-of-funds just made its first public venture bet on Central Asia’s startup boom

Kazakhstan’s Alem Capital Management has anchored a regional venture capital fund backing technology startups across Central Asia and the Caucasus, marking the fund-of-funds manager’s first public [...]