Nvidia’s $2 billion Marvell bet is not an investment. It is a toll booth.
Nvidia’s $2 billion Marvell bet is not an investment. It is a toll booth.

Nvidia has invested $2 billion in Marvell Technology and folded the chipmaker into its NVLink Fusion ecosystem, creating a partnership that covers custom AI accelerators, silicon photonics, and 5G/6G infrastructure. The deal ensures that every custom c…

Musk wants a million data centre satellites. Bezos wants 51,600. Scientists want to know why.
Musk wants a million data centre satellites. Bezos wants 51,600. Scientists want to know why.

The pitch is seductive in its simplicity: AI needs more power than terrestrial grids can supply, so move the data centres into orbit, where the sun never sets and the electricity is free. SpaceX, Blue Origin, and a growing constellation of startups are…

Microsoft just shipped the clearest signal yet that it is building an AI empire without OpenAI
Microsoft just shipped the clearest signal yet that it is building an AI empire without OpenAI

Six months after renegotiating the contract that once barred it from independently pursuing frontier AI, Microsoft has released three in-house models that directly challenge the partner it spent $13 billion cultivating. MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, a…

Tesla reclaims the quarterly EV crown from BYD, but the numbers tell a more complicated story
Tesla reclaims the quarterly EV crown from BYD, but the numbers tell a more complicated story

Tesla delivered 358,023 battery electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2026, edging past BYD’s 310,389 pure electric sales to reclaim the global quarterly BEV lead it surrendered across all of 2025. The margin, roughly 48,000 units, was enough for t…

Anthropic just paid $400 million for a startup with fewer than 10 people
Anthropic just paid $400 million for a startup with fewer than 10 people

Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, a stealth biotech AI startup founded barely eight months ago, in an all-stock deal worth just over $400 million. The acquisition brings a team of fewer than 10 people, nearly all former Genentech computational bi…

Penemue raises €1.7M to scale AI hate speech detection
Penemue raises €1.7M to scale AI hate speech detection

The German startup detects online hate, digital violence, and disinformation across 89 languages in real time, and works with public prosecutors and police alongside commercial clients. Investors were not disclosed. Penemue, the Freiburg-based TrustTec…

Italian rehabilitation robotics startup Wearable Robotics raises €5M to expand its arm exoskeleton
Italian rehabilitation robotics startup Wearable Robotics raises €5M to expand its arm exoskeleton

The Pisa-based Sant’Anna spin-off has deployed its ALEX RS bilateral upper-limb exoskeleton across 20 countries since founding in 2014. CDP Venture Capital led the Series A, with SIMEST providing international expansion funding through Italy’s Ministry…

OpenAI buys TBPN, Silicon Valley’s favourite tech talk show, in its first media acquisition
OpenAI buys TBPN, Silicon Valley’s favourite tech talk show, in its first media acquisition

The daily live show, hosted by former founders John Coogan and Jordi Hays, will sit inside OpenAI’s strategy organisation and report to chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane. Terms were not disclosed. OpenAI says TBPN will keep its editorial indepe…

Google launches Gemma 4: four open-weight models from smartphones to workstations
Google launches Gemma 4: four open-weight models from smartphones to workstations

Built from the same research as Gemini 3, the new family spans a 2B edge model that runs on a Raspberry Pi to a 31B dense model currently ranked third on the Arena AI open-model leaderboard. The Apache 2.0 licence is a significant shift from previous G…

Quanscient and Haiqu run the most complex quantum fluid simulation yet, on IBM’s Heron R3
Quanscient and Haiqu run the most complex quantum fluid simulation yet, on IBM’s Heron R3

A new quantum algorithm ran a 15-step nonlinear fluid simulation around a solid obstacle on real quantum hardware, the most physically complex publicly documented demonstration of its kind. The technique reduces qubit requirements and circuit depth, br…