UK venture funding doubled to $10.5bn in the first four months of 2026, on the back of three giant rounds

GlobalData’s count puts the country well clear of the rest of Europe and inside the global top five, but more than 40% of the total came from just three companies: Nscale, Wayve, and Ineffable Intel [...]

At the launch of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical, Anthropic co-founder says AI models show signs of introspection

Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah was invited to speak at the launch of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas" and used the stage to claim AI models show evidence of intros [...]

I quit Safari for Chrome, but these new MacOS 27 features could pull me back

Safari is getting a glow-up with Apple Intelligence, and I'm all set to make it my default browser, again. [...]

The $54 billion drone boom

How unmanned systems are rapidly redefining how goods, intelligence, and force move across the world [...]

AI’s true value is hiding in your customer conversations

How enterprises can transform raw customer conversations into a unified intelligence engine driving smarter decisions. [...]

Airis Labs comes out of stealth with $60M and a video-intelligence pitch to defence agencies

The Tel Aviv-founded defence-AI firm has closed a $31M Series B led by PSG Equity, bringing total funding to $60M as it scales US operations from Washington DC. Airis Labs, the defence-AI startup that [...]

DataGrail report finds your vendor may be sending data to AI models you never approved

The data processing agreement (DPA) — the bedrock contract companies use to evaluate how vendors handle personal data — can no longer be trusted at face value. That is the central, and arguably mo [...]

Dell just won a big Pentagon contract. Its CEO also pledged billions to Trump Accounts

The five-year deal will streamline Microsoft 365 and cloud licensing across the Defense Department, intelligence community, and Coast Guard [...]

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment

Anthropic today released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship model that ships at the same price as its predecessor, alongside a dramatically cheaper "fast mode" tier and a new featur [...]