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Moonshot AI’s $20bn valuation seals one of China’s fastest AI funding trajectories

Meituan Dragon Ball is leading a $2bn round in the Beijing-based maker of the Kimi chatbot, with China Mobile and CITIC Private Equity Funds participating. The valuation is roughly seven times the figure Moonshot carried sixteen months ago. Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi chatbot, is closing a $2bn funding round at a […]

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Lawrence Wong holds the line: AI will not produce jobless growth in Singapore

Singapore’s parliament has pledged that the country will not see jobless growth as artificial intelligence reshapes the economy, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday in coverage citing Channel NewsAsia. The statement reaffirms the position Prime Minister Lawrence Wong took in February during the parliamentary debate on the 2026 Budget, and represents the most explicit commitment a major […]

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Scale AI wins $500m Pentagon contract, five times its previous Defense Department deal

The agreement was signed with the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, the procurement vehicle driving the bulk of US military AI integration spending in 2025 and 2026. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google signed parallel classified-network deals the same week. Scale AI has won a $500m contract from the US Department of Defense, Bloomberg reported […]

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Corgi reaches a $1.3bn valuation four months after its Series A, with TCV leading a $160m round

The Y Combinator-backed AI-native insurance carrier closed its Series A in January at a $630m valuation. The Series B doubles that figure and funds expansion beyond startup insurance into trucking, where the company says quoting and risk modelling can be similarly compressed. Corgi, a Y Combinator-backed AI-native insurance carrier built for startups, has raised a […]

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OpsMill raises $14m Series A to make IT infrastructure data trustworthy enough for AI agents

IRIS led the Paris- and London-based startup’s round, with BGV joining alongside existing investors Serena and Partech. The company’s Infrahub platform is in production at TikTok and at one European cloud provider that says it has cut deployment times from five days to fifteen minutes. OpsMill, the Paris-headquartered infrastructure data management company, has raised $14m […]

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Pit launches in Stockholm with $16M to build custom AI-native software for enterprise operations

The Voi co-founder, Adam Jafer, is the chief executive. Lakestar joined a16z on the round, with strategic angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deel, and Revolut. Early customers, including Voi, Tre, Stena Recycling, and Kry, are reporting deployment timelines of days to weeks. Pit, a Stockholm-based AI-native software platform for enterprise operations, has launched publicly with […]

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Google’s AI Overviews killed 58 per cent of publisher clicks. Now it is adding a ‘Further Exploration’ section to bring some back.

Google has a publisher problem. AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries that now appear at the top of search results for a growing share of queries, have been correlated with a 58 per cent reduction in click-through rates to the websites whose content those summaries are built on. Penske Media has filed an antitrust lawsuit. The […]

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Snap lost a 400 million dollar AI deal, 20 million dollars a month to the Iran war, and 24 per cent of its stock price. The AR glasses had better work.

Snap reported first-quarter earnings on Tuesday that should have been unremarkable: revenue up 12 per cent to 1.53 billion dollars, adjusted EBITDA more than doubled to 233 million dollars, free cash flow nearly tripled to 286 million dollars. The stock fell four per cent. The reason was not in the numbers Snap reported but in […]

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Ukraine says robots seized enemy territory for the first time. The company behind them is now worth a billion dollars.

In April, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that his forces had, for the first time in the history of warfare, seized an enemy position using only unmanned systems. No infantry. No human soldiers entering the contested ground. Drones and ground robots identified the target, suppressed defensive fire, and captured the position without a single Ukrainian […]

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Uber missed its revenue target. The stock jumped 10 per cent. Wall Street is pricing a different company.

Uber missed its revenue estimate on Tuesday. The stock jumped 10 per cent. The divergence between the number Wall Street expected and the number the market rewarded tells the story of a company that has crossed a threshold: Uber is no longer being priced as a ride-hailing business that also delivers food. It is being […]

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