Belgian AI startup Tekst raises €11.5 million to tackle the bottleneck holding back enterprise AI

Ghent-based Tekst has closed an €11.5 million Series A led by US venture firm Elephant. Tekst was founded in Ghent in 2022 by Wouter Janssen (CEO) and Tiebe Parmentier (CTO) and is taking aim at one …

CodeWords raises $9M to bring proactive AI agents to businesses

London-basedCodeWords, an AI automation platform, has raised $9 million in a seed round ledby Visionaries, with participation from firstminute capital, Sequel, andIllusian. The round also included a g…

Lawrence Wong holds the line: AI will not produce jobless growth in Singapore
Lawrence Wong holds the line: AI will not produce jobless growth in Singapore

Singapore’s parliament has pledged that the country will not see jobless growth as artificial intelligence reshapes the economy, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday in coverage citing Channel NewsAsia. The statement reaffirms the position Prime Minister Lawr…

Scale AI wins $500m Pentagon contract, five times its previous Defense Department deal
Scale AI wins $500m Pentagon contract, five times its previous Defense Department deal

The agreement was signed with the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, the procurement vehicle driving the bulk of US military AI integration spending in 2025 and 2026. Microsoft, Amazon, and Google signed parallel classified-ne…

Nvidia invests $300 million in Corning to build three new US-based optical fiber plants — AI infrastructure deal would boost fiber production capacity by over 50%

Nvidia invests $300 million in Corning to help partners that deploy its hardware in the U.S. to get enough of optical fiber, grant Nvidia control over a significant chunk of domestic fiber production.

Anthropic raises Claude Code and Opus API rate limits, citing SpaceX Colossus 1 deal
Anthropic raises Claude Code and Opus API rate limits, citing SpaceX Colossus 1 deal

Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits double across Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans from Tuesday, with peak-hours throttling removed for Pro and Max. The capacity behind the change is a new Anthropic agreement to take all of SpaceX’s Colo…

Survey shows that nearly half of Americans don’t want new data centers built near their homes — 47% oppose the construction of new AI data centers in their neighborhood

According to a new survey conducted by Ipsos at the end of last year, almost half of all queried Americans said they would oppose an AI data center being built near their community.

AI consulting startup co-founded by DeepMind scientist lands $22.75M Series A

An AI consulting-cum-recruitment startup co-founded by a Google DeepMind scientist and a SoftBank executive has raised $22.75m, led by new investor Andreessen Horowitz. The Series A founding round i…

Ethos lands $22.75m Series A to fix what AI broke about hiring
Ethos lands $22.75m Series A to fix what AI broke about hiring

The London-based AI expert-matching platform, founded by ex-DeepMind and ex-McKinsey alumni, is being valued at the moment hiring is becoming the part of the labour market AI has most visibly degraded. Andreessen Horowitz now leads the round; General C…

Google is working on a “24/7 personal agent” that sounds a lot like its answer to OpenClaw

Google is building an AI agent codenamed Remy inside its Gemini app, as the company looks to compete in a fast-moving market already claimed by OpenClaw, Meta, and Anthropic.