Synera raises $40M to bring agentic AI into engineering workflows at NASA, BMW, Airbus, and Hyundai

The Bremen startup’s platform deploys teams of AI agents that autonomously execute engineering tasks across more than 75 existing tools, without replacing any of them. Revaia led the Series B; Capge [...]

Amazon agrees to acquire Globalstar in an $11.6B deal

Amazon and Apple have also signed a separate agreement for Amazon Leo to continue powering satellite features on iPhone and Apple Watch. The deal gives Amazon the spectrum, infrastructure, and operati [...]

Hexagon pays $1.45 billion for Baker Hughes’ inspection tech unit in biggest European industrial deal of 2026

Hexagon AB, the Swedish industrial technology group ($29B market cap, €5.4B revenue), is acquiring Waygate Technologies from Baker Hughes for $1.45 billion in cash. Waygate is the world’s leading [...]

YouTube will now pause livestream ads when chat engagement peaks

YouTube will now automatically hold back advertisements during livestreams when its systems detect that chat engagement has peaked, a change that prioritises collective viewer experience over ad impre [...]

AppDirect buys PartnerStack to complete its ‘everything store’ for B2B software distribution

In short: AppDirect has acquired Toronto-based PartnerStack, the partner relationship management platform with 138,000+ B2B partners and ~50% market share in the PRM category. Terms were not disclosed [...]

Science Corp is preparing to place its first brain sensor in a human, betting biology will beat electrodes

Science Corporation, the BCI company founded by ex-Neuralink president Max Hodak, is preparing to place a pea-sized, 520-electrode sensor on a human brain’s surface during already-scheduled surgery. [...]

FluidStack is in talks to raise $1B at an $18B valuation

Jane Street and Situational Awareness are in discussions to co-lead the round, Bloomberg reports. The Oxford-founded neocloud, which relocated from the UK to the US after landing a $50 billion data ce [...]

Anthropic, OpenAI, and the Pentagon: a cautionary tale for democratic AI governance

On the afternoon of 27 February 2026, Pete Hegseth picked up his phone and posted to X. The US Secretary of Defense had just designated Anthropic, a San Francisco AI company, a “supply chain risk to [...]

AliveCor brings its pocket-sized 12-lead ECG to Europe after detecting more than 4,000 heart attacks in the US

The Kardia 12L, which uses five electrodes and a single cable to replace bulky 10-lead ECG carts, has received CE Mark. It launches first in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK, with its AI syst [...]