Jack Dorsey's Block cuts 40% of staff, 4,000+ people — and yes, it's because of AI efficiencies

Former Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's new company Block — the parent of merchants payment system Square, mobile peer-to-peer payments Cash App, music streamer Tidal, and open source AI agenti [...]

Opinion: The Sacred and the Silicon Valley

If there is something I never expected to read, it was the Pope’s opinion on artificial intelligence and its use within the Church. So when Pope Leo XIV advised priests of his diocese not to outsour [...]

Encord raises €50M to build the data layer for physical AI

London-based data infrastructure startup Encord has closed a €50 million ($60 million) Series C funding round, led by Wellington Management, with participation from existing backers including Y Comb [...]

OpenAI secures record-breaking $110B funding to “Scale AI for everyone”

OpenAI announced a landmark funding round and strategic alliances on February 27, 2026, aimed at expanding the reach of artificial intelligence across consumers, developers, and enterprises while ceme [...]

Opinion: Red lines and Red flags

The fierce standoff over Claude isn’t just a contract fight. It’s about who controls the future of military AI. In Washington and Silicon Valley, a conflict once relegated to specialist policy bri [...]

Europe’s Deep-Tech Paradox

Europe does not suffer from a shortage of capital. What it lacks is the legal courage and analytical competence required to direct that capital toward the areas where it can create the greatest long-t [...]

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance

In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs GPT-5.4’s 57.7%), multi-agent coordination for [...]

Tesla reclaims the quarterly EV crown from BYD, but the numbers tell a more complicated story

Tesla delivered 358,023 battery electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2026, edging past BYD’s 310,389 pure electric sales to reclaim the global quarterly BEV lead it surrendered across all of 20 [...]

Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (16 -22 March)

A quieter week by headline standards, but one that reveals a great deal about where European venture capital is quietly concentrating: AI agents for physical industries, agritech automation, and the g [...]