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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.
Ukraine seizes a position with drones and robots for the first time — developer becomes a unicorn
Ukrainian troops in April seized an enemy position using only unmanned systems. The developer company was valued at $1 billion.
Nyobolt raised $60M and became a unicorn thanks to its batteries for SymBot
British startup Nyobolt closed a $60M Series C at a $1 billion valuation, becoming a unicorn. Its ultra-fast batteries already power Symbotic's warehouse robots.
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.
AustralianSuper: Agentic AI Can Dramatically Reshape the Pension Sector
AustralianSuper, Australia's largest pension fund managing assets worth A$410 billion, has stated that agent AI has the potential to fundamentally transform how this sector operates and how it serves…
Anthropic to present AI model Mythos to G20 financial regulators
Anthropic received an unusual invitation: to present the AI model Mythos before the financial regulators of the G20.
Google I/O 2026: Gemini Intelligence, Android XR and the End of Chromebook
At Google I/O 2026, held May 19-20 in Mountain View, the company unveiled three strategic changes that will reshape its product landscape for years to come: a new Gemini Intelligence architecture, a…
Lexroom raises $50 million for AI focused on European civil law
Italian startup Lexroom has raised $50 million in a Series B for its legal AI platform focused on civil law. 8,000+ law firms in Europe already use the service, which was trained on 6 million documents.
Exadel acquires London-based Tangent: merger of AI-engineering and UX-design
The AI consulting ecosystem continues to consolidate. Exadel (owned by investment fund Sun Capital) has acquired Tangent, a London-based studio specializing in digital interface design and user…
Standard Chartered to cut 7,800 back-office positions through AI by 2030
Standard Chartered, one of the world's largest global banks with assets exceeding 800 billion dollars, has announced an ambitious plan to transform its operations.
Australia's CBA appoints Professor Mary-Anne Williams as Chief AI Scientist
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has brought in Professor Mary-Anne Williams as Chief AI Scientist, signaling that the development of foundational AI is a strategic priority.
Moonshot AI unwinds VIE structure in preparation for Hong Kong IPO
The developer of the Kimi chatbot is unwinding its VIE structure and preparing for a listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, in what would be one of the largest IPOs among Chinese AI companies.
Barclays: humanoid robots will cover 60% of China's labor shortage
Barclays analysts estimate that humanoid robots will be able to offset 60% of the labor force decline in China by 2035 — about 24 million units amid a 37 million drop in the working-age population.
Pope Leo XIV warned about the spiral of destruction from AI-weapons
Pope Leo XIV completed a historic journey to Rome and delivered one of the most critical speeches of the modern era before an audience at La Sapienza University.
Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI and Altman
Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI was dismissed by the court because it was filed after the statute of limitations had expired.
Amazon launched AI podcast generator based on content from 200+ publications
Amazon introduced Alexa Podcasts, a new feature for Alexa+ subscribers that generates full podcast episodes on demand using licensed content from 200+ publications.
Meta to lay off 8,000 employees for $145 billion in AI investment
Meta is beginning its biggest layoffs in three years: 8,000 people will be laid off amid record profits and $145 billion in AI infrastructure investment. *Meta has been designated an extremist organization and is banned
Lawrence Wong promises AI in Singapore will not lead to unemployment
Singapore's parliament pledged to prevent unemployment caused by AI. It is the clearest promise from a major Asian economy to avoid technological unemployment.
Moonshot AI reaches $20 billion valuation: Meituan and China Mobile invest $2 billion
Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi chatbot, raised $2 billion and reached a $20 billion valuation — one of the fastest funding trajectories in China's AI sector.
Nexus Luxembourg 2026: why the AI conference will be the year's main event
The third edition of the Nexus Luxembourg conference coincides with a critical moment: the entry into force of key provisions of the EU AI Act. Luxembourg is becoming the center of discussions about the future of AI in E