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OrangeQS raises €15M and brings hardware makers into the solution

The Dutch startup, the only company offering a dedicated commercial solution for quantum chip testing, raised a €3M extension to its June 2025 seed round from the European Innovation Council Fund. The accompanying MAX Partnership Programme gives quantum chip makers a structured way to shape the next generation of OrangeQS’s high-throughput test equipment. OrangeQS, the […]

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VisioLab raises $11M to scale its AI-powered iPad checkout to stadiums, canteens, and campuses worldwide

The Osnabrück startup’s camera-based self-checkout, which identifies food and drinks without barcodes in under 10 seconds, is already running at 43 points of sale inside the Orlando Magic’s NBA arena and across about a third of German university campuses. The Series A was led by eCAPITAL and Simon Capital. VisioLab, a German startup that makes […]

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Jeff Bezos’ physical AI lab is close to raising $10 billion at a $38 billion valuation

Project Prometheus, launched in November 2025 with $6.2 billion in initial funding, is developing AI systems that understand the physical world, targeting engineering, manufacturing, aerospace, robotics, and drug discovery. The round has not yet closed. Jeff Bezos is close to finalising a $10 billion funding round for his AI laboratory at a $38 billion valuation, […]

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Clarifai says it deleted 3 million OkCupid user photos and the facial-recognition models trained on them

The AI company received the photos from OkCupid in 2014 without users’ knowledge, in a data transfer that breached OkCupid’s own privacy policy. The FTC’s late March settlement with OkCupid and Match Group brought no financial penalties. Clarifai was not accused of wrongdoing. Clarifai, a Delaware-based facial-recognition AI company, has confirmed that it deleted approximately […]

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Amazon puts up to $25 billion more into Anthropic and secures 10-year cloud commitment in return

The deal is Amazon’s second consecutive mega-round with a frontier AI lab, following a near-identical $50 billion investment in OpenAI two months ago. Anthropic’s annualised revenue has reached $30 billion. The arrangement locks Anthropic into AWS’s Trainium chips through Trainium4 and secures up to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity for Claude. Amazon has agreed to […]

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Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO after nearly 15 years, with hardware chief John Ternus taking over

Summary: Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO on 1 September after nearly 15 years, during which Apple’s market capitalisation grew from $348 billion to roughly $4 trillion and annual revenue quadrupled to $416 billion. John Ternus, the 50-year-old SVP of hardware engineering who oversees roughly 80% of Apple’s revenue-generating products, will become the […]

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WhatsApp is testing a paid subscription at EUR 2.49 per month as Meta rolls out premium tiers across its apps

Summary: WhatsApp has begun testing a paid consumer subscription called WhatsApp Plus at approximately EUR 2.49 per month, offering cosmetic upgrades including 18 chat themes, custom icons, exclusive ringtones, and expanded pinned chats, following Instagram Plus which launched in three markets on 30 March. The subscriptions represent Meta’s first simultaneous consumer-facing paid tiers across its […]

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Google is building a four-partner chip supply chain to challenge Nvidia in AI inference

Summary: Google is building the AI industry’s most diversified custom chip supply chain, with four design partners (Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell, Intel) and a roadmap stretching from the Ironwood TPU now shipping in the millions to TPU v8 chips at TSMC 2nm in late 2027. The strategy, detailed ahead of Google Cloud Next, splits the next […]

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Musk fails to appear before Paris prosecutors investigating Grok’s generation of child sexual images

Summary: Elon Musk failed to appear for a voluntary interview with Paris prosecutors investigating Grok’s generation of an estimated 23,000 sexualised images of children and 3 million sexualised images overall over an 11-day period, as the US DOJ refused to assist the French probe. The case, which covers five suspected criminal offences including complicity in […]

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AirTrunk acquires Lumina CloudInfra to enter India with 600MW of planned capacity

The deal is an internal Blackstone consolidation, both AirTrunk (acquired for A$24 billion in 2024) and Lumina CloudInfra (launched by Blackstone in 2022) sit within the same portfolio. By folding Lumina into AirTrunk, Blackstone gives its Asia-Pacific data centre platform a foothold in India’s hyperscale market without a third-party acquisition. Terms were not disclosed. AirTrunk, […]

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