AI journalism startup Symbolic.ai signs deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp

The startup claims its AI platform can help optimize editorial processes and research.

Analyzing Washington’s new AI accelerator export rules — smaller manufacturers suffer while Nvidia and AMD will reap the rewards

U.S. introduces new export rules for AI and HPC accelerators developed in America that allow shipments of AMD’s MI325X and Nvidia’s H200 GPUs to Chinese entities, but only if their developers meet demand of American custom…

Parloa raises $350M, tripling valuation to $3BN

Parloa, the German-founded startup which develops AI voice agents for call centre work, has raised $350 million in a Series D funding round, vaulting its valuation threefold to $3 billion in seven mon…

Amazon buys first American-mined copper in a decade — Arizona mine to fuel AWS AI data centers in seismic two-year deal

Amazon has struck a two-year deal to receive copper from an Arizona mine, for use in its AWS data centers in the U.S.

What AI is actually doing to jobs in Europe
What AI is actually doing to jobs in Europe

In January 2026, London’s mayor gave a blunt warning that has reverberated far beyond City Hall: artificial intelligence could trigger “mass unemployment” in the capital’s core industries unless policymakers act now. His words came with an unexpected c…

Feedelity raises €510K to turn customer feedback into action

Ghent-basedstartup Feedelity has raised €510,000 to support its next phase of growth, inan investment round backed by private investors including Gilles Mattelin andJorn Vanysacker (Henchman), Wouter …

Lytra completes pre-seed financing for AI-driven manufacturing solution

Munich-basedstartup lytra has completed its pre-seed financing round, led by High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) with participation from additional investors, to expand itsAI-driven platform for manufacturi…

Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is losing two of its co-founders to OpenAI

The abrupt change in personnel was in the works for several weeks, according to an OpenAI executive.

OpenAI signs deal, worth $10B, for compute from Cerebras

The collaboration will help OpenAI’s models deliver faster response times for more difficult or time-consuming tasks, the companies said.

U.S. posts official H200 and MI325X AI GPU export rules to China, but with plenty of caveats — a string of requirments greatly limits the total number of GPUs that can be shipped to China

The U.S. may allow shipments of rather powerful AI processors to China on a case-by-case basis, but with the U.S. supply priority, do not expect AMD or Nvidia ship a ton of AI GPUs to the People’s Republic.