ScaleOps raises $130M to autonomously manage cloud and AI infrastructure

The New York and Israel-based startup, founded by a former Run:ai engineer and professional triathlete, has grown 350%+ year-on-year and counts Adobe, Wiz, DocuSign, and Salesforce among its customers [...]

Penemue raises €1.7M to scale AI hate speech detection

The German startup detects online hate, digital violence, and disinformation across 89 languages in real time, and works with public prosecutors and police alongside commercial clients. Investors were [...]

Samsung AI researcher's new, open reasoning model TRM outperforms models 10,000X larger — on specific problems

The trend of AI researchers developing new, small open source generative models that outperform far larger, proprietary peers continued this week with yet another staggering advancement.Alexia Jolicoe [...]

OpenAI shelves erotic ChatGPT after staff, investors, & advisors revolt

OpenAI has shelved its plans to add an erotic “adult mode” to ChatGPT indefinitely, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, capping a five-month saga in which the feature was announced with con [...]

Rebellions closes $400M pre-IPO round at a $2.34B valuation

The South Korean fabless AI chip company, backed by Samsung, SK Hynix, and Aramco, raises $650M in six months and targets Meta and xAI as US customers. Korea’s National Growth Fund chose Rebellions [...]

LLM-referred traffic converts at 30-40% — and most enterprises aren't optimizing for it

For more than two decades, digital discovery has operated on a simple model: search, scan, click, decide. That worked when humans were the ones doing the web searching; but with the advent of AI agent [...]

The EU’s strategic rebalancing of research partnerships with China

In 2026, one of Europe’s most ambitious scientific ventures, Horizon Europe, a seven-year, roughly €93 billion framework dedicated to research and innovation, underwent a quiet but significant tra [...]

NVIDIA can now sell its high-end AI chips to 'approved customers in China,' Trump says

NVIDIA is now allowed to sell its second-best H200 processors to China, rather than just the sanction-approved H20 model that China had previously declined to buy, President Trump wrote on Truth Socia [...]

EFF sues Elon Musk and DOGE to block their access to federal employee data

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with multiple federal employee unions, have filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team to block their access to [...]