Anthropic in talks to invest $200m in private equity venture to push Claude deeper into enterprise

In short: Anthropic is in negotiations to anchor a new joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Permira that would embed Claude across private equity portfolio companies, investing [...]

HexemBio raises $10.4M for a stem cell rejuvenation therapy

The Berkeley biotech is backing a Nature-published approach that recreates the embryonic environment where blood stem cells first form, rather than reprogramming aged cells chemically or genetically. [...]

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 [...]

Joby and Air Space Intelligence team up to manage US electric air taxi skies

In short: Joby Aviation and Air Space Intelligence have announced a partnership to integrate AI-driven airspace management into U.S. electric air taxi operations, using ASI’s Flyways AI platform to [...]

Trump’s FY27 budget would cut $700M from CISA and kill election security

In short: The Trump administration’s FY2027 budget proposes cutting $707 million from CISA, eliminating the agency’s election security programme entirely and shedding 860 positions, a dramatic es [...]

Google Maps uses Gemini to write captions for your photos

In short: Google Maps now uses Gemini to suggest captions when users share photos of places, launching on iOS in the U.S. and expanding globally to Android in the coming months, the latest step in a [...]

Paladin acquires ICT in €60M push to dominate European ITAD

In short: Paladin EnviroTech has acquired ICT, Ireland’s first R2v3-certified ITAD provider, completing a $70 million, nine-month acquisition spree that now spans the U.S., Netherlands, and Ireland [...]

Utah let AI prescribe medicine

The case for AI prescription renewals is real. So is the case against trusting a state sandbox to catch the risks. In January, a security research firm called Mindgard sat down with a chatbot. The cha [...]

Eclipse raises $1.3B across two funds to back the next era of physical industries

Fund VI ($720M) targets early-stage companies in robotics, manufacturing, and energy. Early Growth Fund III ($591M) supports companies scaling toward Series A. Total AUM is now approximately $10 billi [...]