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A $200bn software investor declares the ‘SaaSpocalypse’ over. Not everyone is convinced

Four months ago, AI looked like it might gut the software industry. This week, one of its biggest investors declared the threat over. The truth sits somewhere in between. Speaking at the SuperReturn International conference in Berlin, Orlando Bravo, founder of Thoma Bravo, one of the world’s largest software-focused private equity firms with almost $200bn […]

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Apple’s AI pitch will live or die by its privacy promise

As expected, yesterday’s WWDC keynote was mostly about AI. And also as expected, Apple tried to turn its late arrival into its sales pitch: it didn’t rush into AI because it was taking its time to do things right. In this case, “right” means “with more privacy than anyone else.” It’s a good pitch – […]

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Alta Ares raised €50M to make shooting down a drone cheaper than the drone itself

A Shahed attack drone costs tens of thousands of euros. The missiles traditionally fired to shoot one down can cost a million or more. A French startup has raised €50mn to fix that maths. Alta Ares, a Paris-based defence-technology company founded in 2024, said on Tuesday it had closed a €50mn round led by Air […]

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Microsoft cuts hundreds of Azure jobs in China as the borderless cloud splinters

The cloud was supposed to make geography irrelevant. Microsoft’s latest round of job cuts in China shows how quickly that promise is coming apart. Microsoft is laying off hundreds of staff at its Azure cloud unit in China, according to affected employees who spoke to the South China Morning Post. Two sources put the number […]

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An ex-scooter founder raised $5M to build AI data centres in orbit, where the sun never sets

AI is running out of power, and out of places to put it, on Earth. A Los Angeles startup wants to solve both problems by leaving the planet. Orbital, a space-infrastructure company building AI data centres in low Earth orbit, has raised a $5mn oversubscribed pre-seed round led by a16z speedrun, with a long list […]

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