London’s Fresha hits unicorn status with KKR-led $80M raise
London’s Fresha hits unicorn status with KKR-led $80M raise

The London-based beauty and wellness booking platform has joined the UK unicorn club at a $1bn-plus valuation, in a deal that lands while the broader SaaS complex is busy arguing about its own funeral. Fresha, the London-based booking and payments plat…

Italian police seize a piracy app that streamed Sky, DAZN, and Netflix through hijacked real accounts
Italian police seize a piracy app that streamed Sky, DAZN, and Netflix through hijacked real accounts

Operazione Tutto Chiaro hit more than 100 sites across Italy, France, and Germany, targeting a system that rebroadcast legitimate subscription codes every three minutes. Italy’s Guardia di Finanza said on Friday it had dismantled an audiovisual piracy …

Lenovo Q4 revenue tops estimates on strong PC sales, shares jump 15%
Lenovo Q4 revenue tops estimates on strong PC sales, shares jump 15%

$21.6bn quarter, AI revenue nearly doubles, full year crowned the best in the company’s history. Lenovo posted Q4 revenue of $21.6bn, up 27% year-on-year and roughly $2.2bn ahead of consensus, sending shares up about 15% on Friday in Hong Kong. Net pro…

DeepSeek founder declares AGI as the goal as $10bn funding round advances
DeepSeek founder declares AGI as the goal as $10bn funding round advances

Liang Wenfeng tells prospective investors the Hangzhou lab will prioritise frontier research over revenue, in its first-ever external raise. DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has told prospective investors in the company’s first outside funding round that…

Meta settles bellwether Kentucky case, ending first school-district trial over youth mental health
Meta settles bellwether Kentucky case, ending first school-district trial over youth mental health

The Breathitt County settlement closes the trial that had been set for June 12 in Oakland. Roughly 1,200 similar school-district suits sit behind it. Meta has settled the first US school-district lawsuit set for trial seeking to make social media compa…

ClickUp cuts 22 per cent of staff and introduces $1 million salary bands for those who remain
ClickUp cuts 22 per cent of staff and introduces $1 million salary bands for those who remain

ClickUp, the $4 billion productivity platform, has cut 22 per cent of its workforce. CEO Zeb Evans announced the layoffs in a post on X, framing them not as a cost-cutting exercise but as a structural bet on AI. The savings, he said, will flow back to …

GitLab 19.0 bets that the real bottleneck in software delivery is everything after writing the code
GitLab 19.0 bets that the real bottleneck in software delivery is everything after writing the code

GitLab has released version 19.0, its first major version bump in a year, built around a concept the company calls intelligent orchestration. The pitch is that AI coding assistants have made writing code faster, but reviews, pipelines, security scans, …

Google’s AI search overhaul is great for Google and bad for everyone who makes the web worth searching
Google’s AI search overhaul is great for Google and bad for everyone who makes the web worth searching

Google called it the biggest change to its search box in 25 years. At I/O 2026, the company unveiled a complete overhaul of Search built around AI mode, conversational follow-ups, and autonomous agents that monitor the web on your behalf. Head of Searc…

Firefox is getting its biggest redesign in six years, and compact mode is coming back
Firefox is getting its biggest redesign in six years, and compact mode is coming back

Mozilla has officially unveiled Project Nova, the largest visual overhaul of Firefox since 2020. The redesign touches tabs, icons, spacing, colour palette, and settings, with the goal of making the browser feel warmer and faster without losing its iden…

SpaceX used a $20 billion bridge loan to slash Musk’s debt costs in half, IPO filing reveals
SpaceX used a $20 billion bridge loan to slash Musk’s debt costs in half, IPO filing reveals

Elon Musk’s strategy of folding his companies into one conglomerate is already paying off. Regulatory documents filed ahead of SpaceX’s historic IPO reveal that the company secured a $20 billion bridge loan from a group of major banks. That loan was us…