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Dell rises 40% on strong demand for Nvidia AI servers
Dell posted record quarterly results driven by surging demand for AI servers, with shares rising 40% and the company raising its full-year guidance.
GLOBSEC 2026 revealed two fundamentally different paths for European digital policy development
At the GLOBSEC forum in Prague, the future of AI, cybersecurity, and digital trust in Europe was discussed—and two radically different development strategies were highlighted
Bank of Italy Openly Announced Negotiations with All Major AI Companies
The Central Bank of Italy openly stated that it is conducting negotiations with leading AI companies. This is an unusual step — central bankers typically do not publicize such contacts.
OpenAI Provides Japanese Megabanks with AI Model for Cybersecurity Defense
OpenAI will provide three Japanese megabanks—MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho—access to the specialized GPT-5.5-Cyber model through the Verified Defender program. Japan's government views frontier AI simultaneously as both a threa
Aizy bought Uptmz to create a unified AI platform for Google, Microsoft and Meta
Dutch startup Aizy acquired seven-year-old Uptmz platform for performance marketing, combining AI technology and human specialists to manage advertising across all major platforms.
Australian tribunal overwhelmed: AI assistants doubled case flow
Australia's Fair Work Commission reported a 70% increase in workload over three years, partly due to the proliferation of generative AI tools in lawsuit preparation.
DeepSeek Makes 75% Discount on V4 Pro Permanent — Prices Fall 4x
DeepSeek announced that the 75% discount on its flagship V4 Pro model is becoming permanent, significantly complicating competitors' fight in the AI price war.
IBM and India Prepare to Retrain 200 Million Workers into AI Specialists
IBM has initiated a plan to retrain 200 million Indian workers as AI specialists in order to make India a center of AI skills by 2030.
PerPlant raises €1M for AI cameras enabling precision field spraying
Danish startup PerPlant has secured €1 million in funding to develop an AI-camera system that helps farmers spray fields with surgical precision. The startup has already mapped 200,000 hectares — 9 times more than all Da
Anthropic blacklisted by Pentagon, but NSA cleared to use Claude
The Pentagon has placed Anthropic on its blacklist as a national security threat, yet the NSA remains authorized to continue using Claude — alternative options simply don't exist.
Claude Code Leak: Anthropic Accidentally Publishes Entire Source Code to Public npm
Anthropic accidentally published the entire Claude Code source code to npm (512K lines of TypeScript) with 44 hidden flags and references to the Mythos model. The code remained publicly accessible for several days.
McKinsey Launches Free AI Interview Prep Tool
McKinsey launched in April a free AI tool for interview preparation at the junior level to level the playing field for candidates regardless of access to expensive coaches.
ECB Calls Banks to Emergency Meeting Over Claude Mythos Threats
The European Central Bank urgently convenes a meeting with banks, concerned that Claude AI models find critical vulnerabilities faster than human security teams.
Microsoft Shut Down Claude Code Due to Unexpected Costs
Microsoft allowed employees to use Claude Code in December, but by spring, shut down the program after bills reached tens of millions of dollars per month.
Anthropic identified over 10,000 critical vulnerabilities in global software
Anthropic uncovered the scale of a problem that the information security world has long underestimated.
Eurostat: 20% of EU Companies Now Use AI, But Growth Rates Remain Slow
European statistics service Eurostat reported growth in artificial intelligence adoption in the EU corporate sector: from 13.5% to 20% over a year. However, experts say this is insufficient for global competition.
Huawei Proposes New Chip Scaling Law to Bypass American Sanctions
Instead of shrinking transistor sizes, Huawei proposes reducing signal propagation delay—the result of six years of covert development of a new chip architecture.
Venture investments in the UK reached $10.5 billion in the first four months of 2026
British startups attracted $10.5 billion in VC funding in the first four months of 2026 — twice as much as a year ago. Three mega-rounds (Nscale, Wayve, Ineffable Intelligence) accounted for 40% of all investments.
How AI Is Stealing Memory from Budget Smartphones. The DRAM Shortage and the End of the Cheapness Era
Data centers training large AI models are hoarding all available DRAM memory, creating a shortage and sharp price increases, causing cheap smartphones like Tecno to lose competitiveness in emerging markets.
Scaleway-led French consortium bids $10 billion to build AI gigafactory
A French consortium led by Scaleway has submitted a $10 billion bid to build one of Europe's five high-capacity AI centers, competing with other EU countries.
Figma Embeds Its Own AI Design Agent Directly Into the Collaborative Canvas
Figma introduced its own AI agent that works on the collaborative canvas, allowing users to generate and edit designs through natural language instead of manual menu clicks.
Payment Startup Primer Raised €86 Million Series C to Expand AI Payments
London-based fintech startup Primer announced raising €86.2 million in Series C to develop an autonomous AI payments platform and expand into the US market.
LinkedIn introduces an AI slop filter and promises to clean up the feed
LinkedIn has launched filtering for AI-generated content that fills the feed with meaningless inspirational phrases. The feed should become more readable as early as this week.
Lithuania is the second in the EU to approve Tesla Full Self-Driving — Greece and Belgium are next in line
Lithuania has become the second EU country to approve Tesla Full Self-Driving, just a few weeks after the Netherlands. Regulators in other countries are already preparing their own decisions.
Canva integrates with Google Gemini, becoming the design layer for every AI assistant
Canva has completed its integration with all major AI assistants. At Google I/O, the company introduced a Connected App for Google Gemini that lets users generate and edit designs directly inside Gemini.
Sigma Computing doubled its valuation to $3 billion in Series E round amid agentic analytics race
Sigma Computing announced raising $80 million in Series E funding at a $3 billion company valuation. This doubles the valuation in one year and positions the startup as one of the most aggressively…
Peter Steinberger spent $1.3 million on API in a month of OpenClaw experiments
Peter Steinberger, an engineer at OpenAI and creator of the OpenClaw project — a system for autonomous code generation — recently published a financial report of his month-long experiment.
Google chose licenses over consulting: a new strategy in the battle for enterprise
Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are taking different paths: Google is signing licensing agreements with the largest funds, while the other two are building consulting divisions. The choice of model will determine who takes
Core42 leased an office in Minneapolis for a 20 MW AI data center
Core42, the cloud and AI infrastructure subsidiary of Abu Dhabi-based Group G42, has signed a lease agreement for a converted office complex in downtown Minneapolis.
LawX raised €7.5M to automate legal office operations
LawX, a Berlin-based startup founded by Dr Norman Koschmieder, has raised €7.5 million in its first funding round led by Motive Partners.