NinjaOne’s valuation more than doubles to $12.3bn, and it says it didn’t even need the money
NinjaOne’s valuation more than doubles to $12.3bn, and it says it didn’t even need the money

Most startups raise money because they need it. NinjaOne has just raised more than $400m to make the opposite point. The Austin-based IT-operations company said on Tuesday that a fresh round of Series C extensions has more than doubled its valuation to…

A federal judge just threw out Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, calling it an unlawful tax
A federal judge just threw out Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, calling it an unlawful tax

US District Judge Leo T. Sorokin in Massachusetts ruled on Monday that the $100,000 fee President Donald Trump imposed on H-1B visa applications is an unlawful tax and must be vacated. The ruling found that the proclamation violated both the federal Ad…

Trump orders the military to adopt AI faster, protect models from China, and never let a vendor pull the plug
Trump orders the military to adopt AI faster, protect models from China, and never let a vendor pull the plug

President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 11 on Friday, directing the US military and intelligence agencies to accelerate their adoption of advanced AI while protecting frontier models from theft by foreign adversaries. Th…

Healthcare’s $97bn staffing problem just won an AI training startup a $55M round
Healthcare’s $97bn staffing problem just won an AI training startup a $55M round

America’s hospitals are spending around $97bn a year renting staff they cannot train fast enough. Stepful thinks AI can fix the supply side, and investors have just handed it $55mn to try. The New York startup has raised a Series C led by healthcare-an…

A former NASA chief is taking Quantum Space public at $1.2bn to build spacecraft for the next space race
A former NASA chief is taking Quantum Space public at $1.2bn to build spacecraft for the next space race

The last time Jim Bridenstine shaped America’s space ambitions, he ran NASA. Now he is betting he can build the hardware for the next phase of the space race, and he wants public investors to fund it. Quantum Space, the Maryland startup Bridenstine now…

Google orders chips from Intel and Nvidia is testing its tech, as TSMC’s grip on AI starts to strain
Google orders chips from Intel and Nvidia is testing its tech, as TSMC’s grip on AI starts to strain

For years, the AI boom has run through a handful of factory floors in Taiwan. That dependence is starting to look risky enough that even Nvidia and Google are shopping for a backup, and the unlikely name on the list is Intel. Google has placed an order…

Amazon’s billion-dollar Corning deal shows fibre is the new bottleneck in the AI build-out
Amazon’s billion-dollar Corning deal shows fibre is the new bottleneck in the AI build-out

The AI boom runs on chips and electricity. It also runs on glass. Amazon is paying Corning billions of dollars for optical fibre to wire up its rapidly expanding US data centres, the two companies said on Monday. The multi-year agreement will create ab…

The lawsuits that could give AI its Big Tobacco moment are already here
The lawsuits that could give AI its Big Tobacco moment are already here

In the 1990s, almost every US state sued the tobacco industry. The resulting settlements cost hundreds of billions of dollars and transformed how cigarettes were marketed, sold, and regulated. Senator Ed Markey said in March that Big Tech’s Big Tobacco…

Kyle Vogt’s Bot Company is being sued for turning an Airbnb into a robot lab
Kyle Vogt’s Bot Company is being sued for turning an Airbnb into a robot lab

A San Francisco Airbnb host is suing The Bot Company, the $2 billion robotics startup founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt, for allegedly using his home as a secret robot testing lab. Sean Donovan claims workers booked his Portola neighbourhood property …

Trump’s top AI adviser Sriram Krishnan is stepping down from the White House
Trump’s top AI adviser Sriram Krishnan is stepping down from the White House

Sriram Krishnan, the White House’s senior policy adviser on artificial intelligence, is stepping down. The former Andreessen Horowitz partner was tapped by President Donald Trump to help shape the administration’s AI strategy during his second term. He…