Why 2026 will be the year of governed cybersecurity AI

The global average cost of a data breach fell to USD 4.44 million in 2025, a 9 per cent drop and the first decline in five years, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report. On the surface, tha [...]

Samaipata launches €110M fund to back early-stage AI-native startups across Europe

The pan-European VC firm has held its first close at €70M for Fund III, backed by Germany’s KfW, Spain’s SETT, and a network of family offices, with a mandate to find European companies building [...]

British startup Outpost raises €15M to make international selling as simple as domestic commerce

Founded in 2024, Outpost acts as the legally liable entity for cross-border payments, tax, and compliance, so merchants don’t have to. Ribbit led the Series A. Selling across borders has always been [...]

AgentMail raises $6M to give AI agents their own email inboxes

The San Francisco startup, backed by General Catalyst and Y Combinator, is betting that email, not some new identity protocol, is how AI agents will establish themselves on the internet. AI agents can [...]

The Pope’s Warnings About AI Were AI-Generated, a Detection Tool Claims

Pangram Labs’ updated Chrome extension puts warning labels on AI slop as you scroll your social feeds. [...]

GitHub freezes new Copilot sign-ups as agentic AI breaks the economics of flat-rate developer subscriptions

Agentic coding workflows are now routinely generating costs that exceed what users pay per month. GitHub’s response, pausing new sign-ups for Pro, Pro+, and Student plans and tightening usage caps, [...]

Australia’s NEXTDC launches A$2.2 billion capital plan

The ASX-listed data centre operator is raising A$1.5 billion in a fully underwritten equity offering and expanding its hybrid securities programme by A$700 million, with La Caisse de dépôt et placem [...]

Jane Street commits $6 billion to CoreWeave and takes a $1 billion equity stake

In short: Jane Street has signed a $6 billion AI cloud agreement with CoreWeave and taken a $1 billion equity stake at $109 per share, making the quantitative trading firm one of CoreWeave’s five la [...]

OpenAI opens its cybersecurity model to thousands of defenders in race with Anthropic’s Mythos

In short: OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.4-Cyber, a model fine-tuned for defensive cybersecurity with lowered refusal boundaries and binary reverse engineering capabilities, and scaling its Trusted Access [...]