Hermeus raises $350M at a $1B valuation to build autonomous hypersonic fighters
The Los Angeles defence startup flew a demonstrator the size of an F-16 in March. A third aircraft is now in development. CEO AJ Piplica
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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
Nvidia’s SchedMD acquisition puts open-source AI scheduling under scrutiny
Nvidia’s recent acquisition of SchedMD, the company behind the Slurm workload manager, is raising concerns among AI industry executives and supercomputing specialists who fear the
Apple’s Mac grabs 11% of US enterprise market share
It’s not just your imagination; you are seeing more Macs being used in business environments these days — and that trend is expected to continue.
Intel is going all-in on advanced chip packaging
Sixteen miles north of Albuquerque, in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, an Intel chip plant sits on more than 200 acres of land. The site was
Astronauts set distance record, revealing the Moon as a place to be explored
After staring at the Moon for almost eight hours Monday, the commander of NASA’s Artemis II mission finally ran out of ways to describe what
How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews?
The company’s A.I.-generated answers look authoritative, but they draw on an array of sources, from trustworthy sites to Facebook posts.
Cheap cloud was built for stability, but that world is changing
The Iran war is not making cloud suddenly expensive. It is exposing how cloud economics was always downstream from energy markets, and Europe is structurally
Bill Ackman proposes buying Universal Music Group for €56B
Pershing Square’s non-binding proposal values UMG at €30.40 per share, a 78% premium to its last closing price. Ackman argues the world’s largest music label
The Uffizi cyberattack should worry every museum in Europe
A cyberattack on one of Italy’s greatest cultural institutions reveals a sector that has mastered physical security and ignored the digital kind. On the weekend
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
After court loss, RFK Jr. gives himself more power over CDC vaccine panel
Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has amended the charter of a federal vaccine advisory panel to seemingly grant himself more power to hand-pick
From folding boxes to fixing vacuums, GEN-1 robotics model hits 99% reliability
Robotic machine learning company Generalist has announced GEN-1, a new physical AI system that it says “crosses into production-level success rates” on “a broad range
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