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Figma’s numbers say AI is a tailwind. Its stock price says the market isn’t sure.

  For ten months, Figma has been a case study in how quickly Wall Street can fall out of love. The company went public on 31 July 2025 at $33 a share, soared past $140 on its debut, and has spent most of 2026 in freefall,  battered by Google’s free Stitch design tool, Anthropic’s Claude […]

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Thrive Capital bets $100 million on Shopify, because sometimes the best AI trade is a beaten-down stock

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has taken a roughly $100 million stake in Shopify, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter. The investment is notable less for its size, $100 million is a rounding error in a firm that raised more than $10 billion for its latest fund, than for what it signals […]

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Palantir’s numbers are working. For the first time, the story is not.

  Alex Karp has spent the past fortnight telling anyone who will listen that Palantir Technologies is indispensable. Retail investors and the German military have arrived at the opposite conclusion, and their timing is almost perfectly synchronised. In the week through 13 May, individual investors were net sellers of $82 million worth of Palantir shares, […]

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OpenAI is preparing to sue Apple over a partnership that was supposed to be the next Google search deal

  OpenAI’s partnership with Apple, announced to considerable fanfare in June 2024, is fracturing. The AI company’s lawyers are actively working with an outside legal firm on options that could include sending Apple a formal notice alleging breach of contract, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the deliberations. No lawsuit has been filed, […]

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BCG is training its AI sales agent on what not to do – and that might be the smarter bet

  Boston Consulting Group is doing something slightly unusual with its new AI sales agent. It is teaching it how to fail. The agent, called Jamie, is being trained not only on the call transcripts, engagement patterns, and conversational habits of BCG’s strongest-performing sellers, but also on the behaviours that did not work, the approaches […]

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The UK spent £900 million on Palantir. Now it is spending £175 million on a British AI company to fix the tax gap.

  HM Revenue and Customs has awarded a 175 million pound, ten-year contract to Quantexa, a London-based AI company, to modernise the tax authority’s data infrastructure and deploy artificial intelligence to detect fraud, fix errors, and close the tax gap. The contract is one of the largest AI deals in UK public sector history. It […]

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How Coinspaid became one of fintech’s top remote-first employers

  Fintech is a sector known for speed and pressure. Employment is usually described in the language of momentum: rapid growth, market disruption, fast-paced decisions. However, this language has stopped resonating with strong candidates. Millennials and Gen Z in particular tend to seek a sense of purpose at work, with roughly 9 out of 10 […]

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The CMA opens its fourth Strategic Market Status case into Microsoft

Windows, Office, Teams, Copilot, server operating systems, and the cloud licensing the regulator already flagged last July. A nine-month investigation, a February 2027 designation decision, and the first CMA SMS case to walk straight through the door the cloud market inquiry left ajar. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has opened a Strategic Market Status […]

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Meta and Google fund the kids groups they cite back at regulators

An eight-month investigation arc, a $6m bellwether verdict, and a National PTA that has now resigned its Meta sponsorship. The line between independent expert and corporate spokesperson is, on the evidence, a budget item. Meta and Google have spent years funding a network of US parent and child-safety organisations that turn up, again and again, […]

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Samsung wants its union back at the table. The union wants the bonus formula in writing.

A week after Samsung Electronics passed $1tn in market value, its largest union is preparing an 18-day strike that could disrupt the AI memory chips inside that valuation. The wage gap with SK Hynix is the spark. The bonus formula is the fight. Samsung Electronics sent a letter to its two largest unions on Thursday […]

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