Irish fleet-safety firm CameraMatics raises up to €49M to take on Samsara in the US
Irish fleet-safety firm CameraMatics raises up to €49M to take on Samsara in the US

An Irish company that uses AI to stop crashes before drivers see them coming has raised up to €49m to expand in North America and Europe. CameraMatics, founded in Dublin in 2016, makes a video-telematics platform for commercial fleets. Its cameras and …

AI bubble fears are spreading, even as SpaceX readies the biggest IPO ever
AI bubble fears are spreading, even as SpaceX readies the biggest IPO ever

On the day SpaceX prices the largest stock-market debut in history, the market underneath it has a case of nerves. The cause is not rockets. It is AI. Several warning lights are flashing at once. Together they amount to the first serious test of a trad…

US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process
US AI giants are colonising London, and squeezing its startups in the process

US AI giants are planting flags in London at a pace the city has never seen, and in doing so they are turning the British capital into the clearest rival to San Francisco, while making life harder for the homegrown startups they are landing next to. In…

What SpaceX’s record IPO really means for the OpenAI and Anthropic listings behind it
What SpaceX’s record IPO really means for the OpenAI and Anthropic listings behind it

The SpaceX IPO is set to price the biggest stock-market debut in history this week, raising about $75bn at a valuation near $1.75tn, with shares trading on Nasdaq from Friday. But the most consequential thing about Elon Musk’s rocket company going publ…

Deezer’s new free tool scans your Spotify and Apple Music playlists for AI slop
Deezer’s new free tool scans your Spotify and Apple Music playlists for AI slop

Deezer has built a free tool that will tell you how much of your music was made by a machine, even if you stream it somewhere else. The French service has opened its AI-music detector to the public, letting anyone scan their playlists on Spotify, Apple…

Upriver raises $14M to fix the unglamorous layer where enterprise AI quietly breaks: the data
Upriver raises $14M to fix the unglamorous layer where enterprise AI quietly breaks: the data

Most enterprise AI projects do not fail because the model is bad. They fail because the data feeding it is a mess: broken pipelines, mismatched systems, and context locked in one engineer’s head. Upriver, an Israeli startup, has raised $14M to automate…

Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact

Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of millions of different AI agents interacting with each other online. According to Rohin Shah, who directs the company’s AGI safety and alignment research, the mass-market arrival of agents that can carry out tasks without human oversight and follow instructions given to them by other agents creates…

Google is funding 300,000 electricians and welders, because the AI boom is running out of them
Google is funding 300,000 electricians and welders, because the AI boom is running out of them

The AI boom has a problem no amount of capital can solve on its own: there are not enough electricians, welders, and pipefitters to build it. Google’s answer is to pay to train them. Its philanthropic arm, Google.org, said it is committing $50M to prep…

The US-Philippines AI hub now has a price tag, $10bn, and a 99-year lease on the table
The US-Philippines AI hub now has a price tag, $10bn, and a 99-year lease on the table

The US-backed plan to build an AI and supply-chain hub in the Philippines now has a number attached: about $10bn in initial investment, with more to follow, according to the official leading the Philippine side. It also has a striking term on the table…

ShopAgentic raises €1.9M to build commerce infrastructure for AI shopping agents
ShopAgentic raises €1.9M to build commerce infrastructure for AI shopping agents

A German startup wants to rebuild online commerce for shoppers who are not human. ShopAgentic has raised a €1.9mn pre-seed to do it. May Ventures and Greenfield Capital co-led the oversubscribed round. What ShopAgentic is building ShopAgentic calls its…