NHS England gives Palantir contractors broader access to patient data
NHS England gives Palantir contractors broader access to patient data

A leaked internal briefing note describes a new admin role on the £330m Federated Data Platform that lets external staff bypass case-by-case data approvals. Patient groups and Labour MPs have called the change dangerous. NHS England has decided to allo…

Ursula Von der Leyen pushes EU-wide social-media age protections for children
Ursula Von der Leyen pushes EU-wide social-media age protections for children

The European Commission president said an EU age-verification app is technically complete and that bloc-level rules on minimum social-media ages are next. France, Spain, and several others are already moving alone. European Commission President Ursula …

Jensen Huang skips Trump’s China business delegation
Jensen Huang skips Trump’s China business delegation

The Nvidia CEO is not on the list of US executives travelling to Beijing for the Trump-Xi summit. Apple’s Tim Cook and Tesla’s Elon Musk are among those attending; the trip’s focus is reportedly agriculture, manufacturing, and aviation. NVIDIA CEO Jens…

Texas AG sues Netflix over alleged spying and addictive design
Texas AG sues Netflix over alleged spying and addictive design

Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the suit on Monday, alleging Netflix collects user data without consent and uses autoplay to keep children watching. Netflix calls the suit meritless. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Netflix on Monday, alleging …

Nscale secures $790m financing for Narvik AI data centre
Nscale secures $790m financing for Narvik AI data centre

Nscale, the vertically integrated AI-infrastructure company, has secured an additional $790m of debt financing to continue building out its AI data centre in Narvik, northern Norway, the company said on Monday. The committed facility was provided by AB…

Happl raises $11m Series A to scale its global benefits operating system
Happl raises $11m Series A to scale its global benefits operating system

Happl, the London- and New York-based provider of an AI-native employee-benefits platform for multinational employers, has raised $11m in a Series A round. The round was led by Portage Ventures, with participation from F Capital and continued backing f…

GitLab is cutting jobs for the agentic era. It does not yet know how many.
GitLab is cutting jobs for the agentic era. It does not yet know how many.

  GitLab is cutting jobs to invest in AI agents. The company announced on Monday that it will flatten management layers, reorganise its research and development teams into roughly 60 smaller autonomous units, reduce its country footprint by approximate…

Wise left London for Nasdaq. It is also applying for a US banking charter. The migration is not just a listing change.
Wise left London for Nasdaq. It is also applying for a US banking charter. The migration is not just a listing change.

  Wise began trading on Nasdaq on Monday under the ticker WSE. Shares opened at 15.96 dollars. The London-founded fintech, which went public on the London Stock Exchange in July 2021 via a direct listing that valued it at 11 billion dollars, has moved …

ZoomInfo beat earnings, cut 600 jobs, and lost 29 per cent of its stock price. Its database is being repriced by AI.
ZoomInfo beat earnings, cut 600 jobs, and lost 29 per cent of its stock price. Its database is being repriced by AI.

  ZoomInfo beat its first-quarter earnings estimates, cut its full-year revenue guidance by 62 million dollars, announced a restructuring that will eliminate 600 jobs, and lost 29 per cent of its stock price in a single trading session. The company rep…

Bill Gates’s backed Fervo Energy raises IPO target to $1.82bn on $7.4bn
Bill Gates’s backed Fervo Energy raises IPO target to $1.82bn on $7.4bn

The geothermal developer increased its share count by 26% and its top-of-range price by about 8% in an SEC filing on Monday. The revision points to the demand for clean baseload power that AI data-centre buyers have been ready to pay for. Fervo Energy …