Europe’s Crypto Reset Is Underway as Venga Joins the First Wave of MiCA-Approved Firms
Europe’s Crypto Reset Is Underway as Venga Joins the First Wave of MiCA-Approved Firms

Europe’s crypto industry has entered a new regulatory era. After years of operating under a patchwork of national registration regimes, crypto companies across the European Union are now facing a single regulatory framework under the Markets in Crypto-…

Base44 launches Base1, its own AI model for vibe coding
Base44 launches Base1, its own AI model for vibe coding

Base44 spent its first year building apps on other companies’ AI models. Now it has built its own. It is betting that owning the model is the only way to survive the vibe-coding gold rush. The Tel Aviv startup lets anyone build a working app by describ…

Schneider Electric buys industrial-AI firm Cognite for $3.1bn
Schneider Electric buys industrial-AI firm Cognite for $3.1bn

Schneider Electric is buying Cognite, a Norwegian-founded industrial AI company, for $3.1bn in cash. The French group wants software that can make factories and power grids think for themselves. Schneider Electric said on June 30, 2026 that it had agre…

Enterprise AI’s Missing Foundation: Why Content Governance May Matter More Than the Next AI Breakthrough
Enterprise AI’s Missing Foundation: Why Content Governance May Matter More Than the Next AI Breakthrough

Rob Hanna observes that many enterprise AI initiatives may be losing momentum because organizations continue to treat language like structured data while overlooking the systems that make knowledge reliable. The co-founder and CEO of Precision Content,…

AWS is spending $1bn to put its engineers inside customers’ offices
AWS is spending $1bn to put its engineers inside customers’ offices

Amazon Web Services is committing $1bn to embed its own engineers inside customer companies. It is the first cloud giant to copy a playbook that Palantir built and that OpenAI and Anthropic have since adopted. Amazon Web Services said on June 30, 2026 …

The next generation of AI won’t be powered by better models alone
The next generation of AI won’t be powered by better models alone

As thousands of engineers, founders and researchers gather in San Francisco for AI Engineer World’s Fair, much of the conversation is focused on increasingly capable models, autonomous agents and AI applications. According to Vytautas Savickas, CEO of …

OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon are funding RAISE US
OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon are funding RAISE US

OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are bankrolling a new nonprofit to retrain American workers for the AI economy. RAISE US, led by Gina Raimondo, has already raised more than $500m. The biggest names in AI agree on at least one thing. The technol…

Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the AI video enhancer
Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the AI video enhancer

Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, the Emmy-winning maker of AI image and video enhancement tools. The deal hands Adobe upscaling, restoration and on-device AI as creators blend captured and generated footage. Adobe has agreed to buy Topaz Labs, an AI company…

Scaled Cognition raises $100M to build AI that won’t hallucinate
Scaled Cognition raises $100M to build AI that won’t hallucinate

Scaled Cognition has raised $100M led by Khosla Ventures to build AI that does not hallucinate. The startup says its model will not give a wrong answer, a bold claim in a field built on probability. Scaled Cognition, a Mountain View AI lab, has raised …

Runpod hits $1bn valuation as the AI compute crunch bites
Runpod hits $1bn valuation as the AI compute crunch bites

Runpod has raised $100M and reached a $1bn valuation, a tenfold jump in under two years. The cloud startup rents out AI computing power, and it says it turned down buyout offers worth more than $500M. The great AI compute crunch is minting a new kind o…