Google Is Building a Four-Partner Chip Supply Chain to Challenge Nvidia in AI Inference
Google is constructing the AI industry’s most diversified custom‑chip supply chain, enlisting Broadcom, MediaTek, Marvell and Intel to design and produce next‑generation TPUs. The current Ironwood inference chip, now shipping in the millions, offers 42.5 FP8 exaflops per super‑pod and powers services like Search and Gemini. Broadcom will deliver the high‑performance “Sunfish” training TPU on TSMC’s 2 nm process, while MediaTek’s cost‑focused “Zebrafish” inference chip aims for 20‑30% cheaper operation. Google projects 4.3 million TPU shipments in 2026, scaling to over 35 million by 2028, positioning the ecosystem as a direct challenge to Nvidia’s inference dominance.
The 8 Best Supplier Management Software Platforms: The 2026 Buyer’s Guide
Supplier management software has shifted from simple data repositories to AI‑driven, unified platforms that combine contracting, compliance, and spend analytics. The 2026 buyer’s guide evaluates eight solutions, highlighting Gatekeeper as the only tool that natively unifies all three functions. Legacy...
Intelligent Investing Founder Arnout Ter Schure on Integrating AI Capabilities with Human Market Insight and Structure
Intelligent Investing, founded by Arnout Ter Schure, positions artificial intelligence as a speed‑enhancing companion to traditional market analysis rather than a replacement. Ter Schure leverages his scientific background to blend AI‑driven data processing with structured frameworks such as Elliott Wave, Fibonacci ratios,...
Coral Raises $12.5M to Automate Healthcare’s Administrative Back Office
Coral, a New York AI startup, raised $12.5 million Series A funding led by Lightspeed and Z47 to automate specialty healthcare administrative workflows. Its platform reads handwritten fax forms, processes prior authorizations and completes patient intakes in under five minutes while integrating with...
Threads Is Redesigning Its Website and Finally Adding Direct Messages to the Desktop
Meta’s Threads platform unveiled a redesigned desktop web interface that introduces a left‑hand navigation rail, a cleaner single‑feed layout, and, for the first time, direct messaging on the web. The DM feature supports one‑on‑one chats, group conversations of up to...
Europe Is Pouring Tens of Billions of Public Money Into VC. The Hard Part Is Making It Work
Europe is committing over €80 billion (≈$86 bn) of public and mobilised capital to venture and growth investing, highlighted by the EIF’s €15 bn (≈$16.2 bn) ETCI 2 fund, Germany’s WIN €12 bn (≈$13 bn) initiative, France’s Tibi €7 bn (≈$7.6 bn) programme, the Scaleup Europe Fund €5 bn (≈$5.4 bn)...
Nvidia’s Huang Warns DeepSeek Running on Huawei Chips Would Be ‘Horrible’ for the US
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned on the Dwarkesh Podcast that DeepSeek’s upcoming V4 model running on Huawei’s Ascend 950PR chips would be “a horrible outcome” for the United States. The Chinese AI lab is rewriting its code to use Huawei’s CANN...
Palantir, Thales, and a Startup Are Competing to Build the FAA’s Predictive Air Traffic AI
The Federal Aviation Administration is developing SMART, an AI-driven system that will extend air‑traffic conflict prediction from the current 15‑minute window to two hours. Palantir, Thales, and Boston‑based startup Air Space Intelligence are vying for the contract, which sits within...
Cursor Is Raising $2 Billion at a $50 Billion Valuation as AI Coding Tools Become the Fastest-Growing Software Category
AI coding platform Cursor is in talks to raise at least $2 billion, valuing the company at roughly $50 billion—almost double its November 2025 valuation. The startup has accelerated from zero to $2 billion in annualised recurring revenue (ARR) within three years, serving...
Three More Senior Executives Leave OpenAI as the Company Kills Its Side Quests
OpenAI announced the departure of three senior executives—former CPO Kevin Weil, Sora head Bill Peebles, and enterprise CTO Srinivas Narayanan—on the same day it terminated its consumer‑focused side projects, including the Sora video‑generation tool and the OpenAI for Science initiative. The exits...
Anthropic’s Amodei Heads to the White House as Washington Fights over Mythos Access
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will meet White House chief of staff Susie Wiles to discuss government access to Mythos, the company’s frontier AI model that can discover and exploit zero‑day vulnerabilities. The meeting follows a Pentagon‑imposed blacklist after Amodei refused...
Zoom Partners with Sam Altman’s World to Verify that Meeting Participants Are Actually Human
Zoom announced a partnership with Sam Altman’s biometric firm World to embed a “Verified Human” badge in video meetings. The feature uses World’s Deep Face technology, matching live video to an iris‑scanned profile captured by the Orb device, and can...
Uber Launches $5 Doorstep Return Pickups for Uber Eats Purchases Across 5,000 US Cities
Uber has introduced a $5 "Return a Package" service within the Uber Eats app, offering on‑demand pickup of items for return in roughly 5,000 U.S. cities. The feature works with nine retail partners, including Target, Best Buy and Dick’s Sporting Goods,...
Intel’s New Wildcat Lake Chips Take Aim at the MacBook Neo with AI as the Differentiator
Intel unveiled its Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake" processors on April 16, positioning them as AI‑enabled alternatives to Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo in the budget‑laptop market. Built on the 18A node, the chips combine two performance cores, four efficiency cores, Xe3 graphics and...
Volvo’s Parent Geely Is Selling a $15,000 Electric SUV with Massaging Seats and 600 Km of Range
Geely, Volvo's parent, has launched the EX5 electric SUV at a base price of 109,800 yuan (about $15,300). The compact crossover offers up to 610 km of range, a 1,000‑watt sound system and optional massaging seats, positioning it as a premium‑feature vehicle...
Canva Becomes the Design Layer Inside Claude with New Anthropic Partnership
Canva and Anthropic have deepened their two‑year partnership by launching Claude Design, a feature that leverages Canva’s Design Engine to turn text prompts into fully editable, on‑brand visuals via Claude Opus 4.7. The product is part of Canva AI 2.0, which adds...
Dropbox Brings Its Files, Dash Search, and Reclaim Calendar Into ChatGPT with Three New Apps
Dropbox announced three new ChatGPT apps that embed its core file service, the enterprise search tool Dash, and the Reclaim AI calendar into OpenAI’s chat interface. The file app lets users preview, save, and share Dropbox documents without leaving the...
EU Awards Its €180 Million Sovereign Cloud Contract to Four European Providers
The European Commission awarded a €180 million (~$196 million) six‑year sovereign‑cloud contract to four provider groups: Post Telecom with CleverCloud and OVHcloud, StackIT, Scaleway, and a Proximus‑S3NS consortium that pairs Thales with Google Cloud. The multi‑award approach aims to diversify supply and...
The EU Has Told Google What It Must Do to Share Search Data with Rivals
The European Commission has issued preliminary findings under the Digital Markets Act, outlining six concrete measures that require Google to share search‑ranking, query, click and view data with competing search engines and AI chatbots. The proposal defines eligibility, data scope,...
Exclusive: Make Opens a Mentorship Office at STATION F
Make, the visual‑automation and AI‑agents platform owned by Celonis, has opened a permanent Mentorship Office at Paris’s STATION F startup campus. The office will deliver one‑on‑one mentorship, workshops and hackathon support to the campus’s 1,000+ early‑stage companies. Make now serves over...
Cadence and Nvidia Are Bridging the Simulation Gap That’s Slowing Down Robotics
Cadence Design Systems and Nvidia announced an expanded partnership to close the simulation gap that hampers robot deployment. The deal integrates Cadence’s high‑fidelity multiphysics engines with Nvidia’s Isaac AI training suite and Cosmos open‑world models. The combined workflow generates more...
YouTube Will Now Pause Livestream Ads when Chat Engagement Peaks
YouTube introduced real‑time ad suppression that pauses automatic ads when chat activity spikes, and it adds personal ad‑free windows for viewers who send Super Chats or gifts. The update arrives alongside dual‑format streaming—vertical and horizontal—plus virtual gifting now available in...
Synera Raises $40M to Bring Agentic AI Into Engineering Workflows at NASA, BMW, Airbus, and Hyundai
Synera, a Bremen‑based startup, closed a $40 million Series B round led by Revaia, with Capgemini joining via ISAI Cap Venture. The funding will fuel U.S. expansion and deepen deployments of its agentic AI platform at NASA, BMW, Airbus, Hyundai and other industrial leaders....
Helical Closes $10M Seed to Turn Bio Foundation Models Into Systems
Helical, a London‑based pharma‑AI startup, closed a $10 million seed round led by redalpine, with AI leaders from Cohere and HuggingFace among angel investors. The funding will expand its dual‑surface platform—Virtual Lab for biologists and Model Factory for data scientists—across more...
The Future of Work Includes Better Water: Why Offices Are Rethinking Hydration
Offices are installing filtered water dispensers to combat chronic dehydration, which affects up to 75% of Americans. Studies show a single glass of water can boost reaction times by about 14%, linking hydration to higher productivity and safety. Traditional sugary...
Top 10 Enterprise Picks for the Best HR Management Software in 2026
The article ranks the top ten enterprise HR management software platforms for 2026, highlighting HiBob, Rippling, Deel, Workday, UKG Pro, Personio, Paycor, BambooHR, Gusto and Sage HR. It outlines core HR functions—payroll, benefits, performance tracking—and evaluates each vendor on pricing, scalability, global...
Nesto Raises €11m From Expedition to Scale AI Workforce Management for Restaurant Groups
Karlsruhe‑based Nesto Software raised €11 million (≈$12 million) in growth equity from Expedition Growth Capital to accelerate its AI‑driven workforce‑management platform. The round, Nesto’s first institutional financing after bootstrapping to over €5 million ARR, will fund product development, sales expansion, and the evolution...
Round Raises $6M to Automate the Finance Workflows that Still Require a Human to Press a Button
London fintech Round announced a $6 million seed round led by Alstin Capital, with participation from Backed VC, Love Ventures, and several angel investors including Indeed co‑founder Paul Forster. The funding backs the launch of two new products—a natural‑language Agentic Workflow Builder and an...
Europe Is Dismantling Its Own Rulebook to Compete with America
On 19 November 2025 the European Commission unveiled a Digital Omnibus package that amends the AI Act, GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, Data Act and several cybersecurity rules. The proposal delays high‑risk AI obligations by up to 16 months, adds a GDPR “legitimate‑interest” basis for...
UK Impact VC Eka Ventures Closes Second Fund at $107M
Eka Ventures announced the close of its second fund at $107 million (£80 million), bringing total assets under management to $200 million and making it the UK’s largest early‑stage impact‑focused venture capital firm. Fund II will back up to 30 pre‑seed and seed...
Mac Mini and Mac Studio Go Out of Stock – Is It the RAM Crisis or an M5 Refresh?
Apple’s US online store listed high‑RAM Mac mini (32 GB, 64 GB) and Mac Studio (128 GB, 256 GB) configurations as unavailable on 11 April 2026, with no delivery dates. The shortage follows a March removal of the 512 GB RAM option for Mac Studio and a 25% price...
Anthropic Brings Claude Into Microsoft Word, and Legal Contract Review Leads Its Use Cases
Anthropic launched a public‑beta add‑in that embeds Claude directly into Microsoft Word, showing every AI‑generated edit as a native tracked change. The tool targets legal contract review, financial memo drafting, and iterative editing, and is available to Claude Team ($25 per...
Why Data Quality Matters when Working with Data at Scale
Data quality is often relegated to a post‑deployment cleanup, leading to costly fixes and eroded trust when pipelines drift from their original contracts. The article outlines how typical data projects move from cross‑functional planning to staging validation, yet assume the...
SaaS on the Beach Returns to Barcelona with a Founder-Only Format
SaaS on the Beach is returning to Barcelona for May 20‑21, 2026, with a founder‑only format that caps attendance at 60 vetted SaaS CEOs. The two‑day gathering drops traditional trade‑show elements—no exhibition hall, no sponsored speakers, and no sales‑heavy sessions—in favor...
Estonia Is the Rare EU Country Opposing Bans on Children’s Social Media Use
Estonia and Belgium are the only EU members that declined the October 2025 Jutland Declaration, which calls for age‑verification bans on children’s social‑media use. Estonia’s ministers argue that such bans are unenforceable, that kids will easily circumvent them, and that existing...
AI Is Making Us Faster, More Productive, and Worse at Thinking
AI adoption is accelerating, with U.S. tech firms slated to spend $667 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026—a 62% year‑over‑year rise. Yet a Goldman Sachs analysis shows only a handful of companies can link AI to measurable earnings, and productivity gains...
AI Can Screen 15 Million Molecules in a Day. It Still Can’t Cure Alzheimer’s.
Novartis used generative AI to design 15 million molecular‑glue candidates for Huntington’s disease and synthesized about 60, yielding a promising scaffold. While AI can trim early‑stage drug discovery timelines by 30‑40 percent and lower costs, no AI‑discovered compound has secured FDA approval...
France Orders All Government Ministries to Ditch Windows for Linux in Digital Sovereignty Push
France’s Interministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM) ordered every government ministry to submit a plan by autumn 2026 to replace Windows with Linux, extending the state’s digital‑sovereignty agenda that already bans Teams and Zoom. The directive covers operating systems, collaboration tools, cloud, AI,...
Meow Technologies Launches the First Agentic Banking Platform for AI Agents
Meow Technologies unveiled the world’s first agentic banking platform, enabling AI agents to open and fully manage business bank accounts without human intervention. The service integrates with leading models such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Gemini via the Model Context...
Amazon’s AI Tool Matches Shelter Dogs and Cats with Adopters in the Protect Playtime Campaign
Amazon’s Brand Innovation Lab, PetArmor and Best Friends Animal Society launched the Protect Playtime campaign, featuring an AI‑driven pet‑matching tool on Amazon and personalized generative videos created with Nova Reel. The tool accepts natural‑language queries and pulls listings from a...
Gmail’s End-to-End Encryption Comes to Mobile, a Year After Its Web Launch
Google has extended its client‑side, end‑to‑end encryption for Gmail to Android and iOS, completing the mobile rollout that began with the web launch in April 2025. The feature is limited to Workspace Enterprise Plus customers with the Assured Controls add‑on, allowing encrypted...
YouTubers Sue Amazon for Allegedly Scraping Their Videos to Train Nova Reel
Three prominent YouTube creators—H3H3 Productions, MrShortGame Golf, and Golfholics—have filed a proposed class‑action in Seattle accusing Amazon of illegally scraping their videos to train its Nova Reel generative‑video AI. The complaint alleges Amazon used virtual machines, automated scripts, and rotating...
Canva Acquires Simtheory and Ortto in a Twin Deal Aimed at Turning a Design Tool Into an End-to-End Work Platform
Canva announced the simultaneous acquisition of Simtheory, an agentic AI collaboration platform, and Ortto, a customer‑data and marketing‑automation suite. Both firms were founded by Australian brothers Chris and Mike Sharkey, who will now lead Canva’s AI and marketing‑technology groups. The...
Europe’s First Commercial Robotaxi Service Is Live in Zagreb
Verne, a spin‑out of Croatia’s Rimac Group, launched Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service in Zagreb on April 8, allowing passengers to book rides via the Verne app. The fleet consists of Arcfox Alpha T5 vehicles equipped with Pony.ai’s seventh‑generation autonomous‑driving system, with...
Google Maps Uses Gemini to Write Captions for Your Photos
Google Maps is adding Gemini‑powered caption suggestions for photos shared on the platform. The feature launches today on iOS in the United States, with an English‑only rollout that will expand to Android worldwide in the coming months. By automatically generating...
Paladin Acquires ICT in €60M Push to Dominate European ITAD
Paladin EnviroTech announced the acquisition of ICT, Ireland’s first R2v3‑certified IT asset disposition provider, completing a $70 million (≈€60 million) nine‑month acquisition spree that now spans the United States, the Netherlands and Ireland. ICT processes over 2,000 tonnes of e‑waste and 500,000 data‑bearing...
Joby and Air Space Intelligence Team up to Manage US Electric Air Taxi Skies
Joby Aviation and Air Space Intelligence (ASI) have partnered to embed ASI’s Flyways AI platform into U.S. electric air‑taxi operations, aiming to model and manage high‑density eVTOL traffic before commercial service begins later this year. The collaboration leverages ASI’s 4‑D...
Medialister Opens Editorial Media Marketplace to AI Agents with MCP Server
Medialister, a PRNEWS spin‑off, launched a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini query its editorial media marketplace directly. The platform replaces the decades‑old email‑heavy workflow with a searchable, automated hub where...
HexemBio Raises $10.4M for a Stem Cell Rejuvenation Therapy
HexemBio announced a $10.4 million seed round led by Draper Associates to develop a blood‑stem‑cell rejuvenation therapy built on its Synthetic Human Yolk Sac platform. The technology temporarily places a patient’s own haematopoietic cells into a recreated embryonic niche, then returns...
Natter Raises $23M to Replace Enterprise Surveys with AI-Moderated Video Conversations
London‑based Natter announced a $23 million Series A round led by Renegade Partners to accelerate its AI‑moderated video conversation platform. The technology replaces traditional employee surveys with seven‑minute video sessions that generate over 1,000 words of structured insight, compared with roughly ten...