Helical closes $10M seed to turn bio foundation models into systems

The Luxembourg-founded startup is already in production with multiple top-20 global pharma companies, including a public collaboration with Pfizer. Its $10M seed round is led by redalpine, with the CE [...]

Beats Reveals New Over-Ear Headphones With Lamine Yamal Social Teaser

Ahead of the World Cup, Spain's star winger Lamine Yamal teases unreleased Beats headphones in an Instagram post. [...]

Can you tell a bot from a human online? Surfshark's new experiment says nearly half of us cannot

Surfshark's "Bot or Not" experiment found that 47% of participants failed to tell AI bots from humans on simulated social platforms. And you can try, too. [...]

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 [...]