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Natter raises $23M to replace enterprise surveys with AI-moderated video conversations

The London-based startup, founded by former BBC and Uber executives, runs AI-orchestrated video conversations that can gather structured insight from thousands of employees simultaneously. A seven-minute conversation produces more than 1,000 words of data versus ten from a typical survey answer. Natter, a London-based enterprise insights startup, has raised a $23 million Series A led […]

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Nvidia-backed Firmus targets $2bn ASX IPO after locking in $505m equity and $10bn Blackstone debt for its AI factory network

In short: Australian AI data centre company Firmus has raised $505m at a $5.5bn valuation in what it says is its final pre-IPO round, and is now targeting a $2bn listing on the ASX in June or July, backed by a $10bn Blackstone-led debt facility secured in February and a plan to deploy 1.6 gigawatts of […]

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OpenAI launched a safety fellowship

The OpenAI Safety Fellowship, announced on 6 April 2026, is a pilot programme for external researchers to conduct independent work on AI safety and alignment. It runs from September 2026 to February 2027. It was posted to social media hours after a Ronan Farrow investigation in The New Yorker reported that OpenAI had dissolved its […]

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Anthropic signs biggest compute deal yet with Google and Broadcom as revenue run rate hits $30bn

In short: Anthropic has agreed to access approximately 3.5 gigawatts of next-generation Google TPU compute capacity via Broadcom from 2027, its largest infrastructure commitment to date — while simultaneously disclosing that its revenue run rate has surpassed $30bn, more than tripling from roughly $9bn at the end of 2025. Anthropic has announced it is securing multiple […]

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Iran threatens to destroy OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate data centre in Abu Dhabi

In short: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has released a video threatening “complete and utter annihilation” of OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate AI campus in Abu Dhabi, singling out the facility by name for the first time and warning it will strike if the US proceeds with threatened attacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure. A senior officer in Iran’s […]

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Google’s free offline dictation app just made paying $15 a month for Wispr Flow hard to justify

In short: Google has quietly released an iOS app called Google AI Edge Eloquent, a free, offline-first voice dictation tool that transcribes speech in real time, strips filler words automatically, and transforms raw dictation into polished text without requiring an internet connection. The app runs on Gemma-based on-device ASR models, offers an optional cloud mode using […]

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Spain’s Xoople raises $130m to build the data infrastructure AI needs to understand Earth

In short: Xoople, a Madrid-based geospatial data company founded in 2019, has raised a $130 million Series B led by Nazca Capital, bringing its total funding to $225 million and pushing its valuation into unicorn territory. The round was co-invested by MCH Private Equity, CDTI (the Spanish government’s technology development fund), Buenavista Equity Partners, and Endeavor […]

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OpenAI calls for robot taxes, a public wealth fund, and a four-day week

Sam Altman’s 13-page policy blueprint, ‘Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age,’ proposes auto-triggering safety nets, containment playbooks for rogue AI, and direct citizen dividends from AI-driven growth. He told Axios it is a starting point, not a prescription. OpenAI has published a 13-page policy document calling for sweeping economic reforms to prepare for what it […]

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IBM and Arm are partnering to stop mainframes being left out of the AI era

In short: IBM and Arm announced a strategic collaboration on 2 April 2026 to enable Arm-based software to run on IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes, the platforms that process the bulk of the world’s regulated enterprise transactions. The partnership targets three areas: virtualisation to host Arm software environments on IBM hardware, security and compliance for regulated […]

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Salesforce gives Slackbot 30 new AI powers, and a strategy that looks a lot like Microsoft’s

In short: Salesforce unveiled more than 30 new AI capabilities for Slackbot on 31 March 2026, the most sweeping overhaul of the platform since its $27.7 billion acquisition in 2021. The update transforms Slackbot from a conversational assistant into an agentic system that can transcribe meetings across any video platform, monitor users’ desktop activity, execute tasks […]

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