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Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in

AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in with model makers.

The three hard-tech moonshots fueling SpaceX's unbelievable IPO

Most of the value in SpaceX's IPO is effectively a call option on the company's ambitious space data center plans.

Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel AI

Through the acquisition, WMG aims to better track when its artists' work is used in AI-generated content or for training AI models.

German start-up Neura raises $1.4bn in humanoid robot push

Crypto group Tether, Amazon and Nvidia invest in fundraising deal that values company at about $7bn

Join The Future of AI in Sustainability Panel in London

Explore how AI transforms sustainability reporting & climate action at The Future of AI in Sustainability Panel @ London Climate Action Week, 25 June 2026

How Watershed’s AI Manages Emissions Data for Companies

Watershed's Yubing Zhang explains how the platform uses AI to help organisations measure emissions and identify decarbonisation opportunities

Companies' new budget-friendly approach to AI could create a corporate caste system

Companies want to cut down on their AI spending. Doing so means making some hard choices that risk creating internal issues.

Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business

The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.

McDonald’s latest AI drive-thru test will let customers ask, “Can I get my usual?”

Five restaurant locations are piloting the new ArchIQ tech, which puts a chatbot at the drive-thru that appears to identify repeat customers, according to a demo shown at McDonald’s Worldwide Convention last week. The demo also shows the chatbot taking an order in Spanish and “remembering” that a customer doesn’t like cheese on their quarter-pounder.

Google is liable for its AI Overviews, German court rules

A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for false claims its AI Overviews make, treating the AI-written summaries as Google’s own speech rather than ordinary search results. It is one of the first rulings to test who is responsible when a generative-AI system gets it wrong, and the answer it gives is blunt: the company that built it.

What smart people are saying about the 2 most controversial parts of Anthropic's new models

Anthropic says Mythos won't help users build competing AI models. Critics said the move quietly degrades responses and limits competition.

Decart's new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats

Decart is launching Oasis 3, a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments for autonomous vehicle testing, now available via API for developers to build on.