A US judge ruled that a fraud defendant’s AI chats with Claude are not privileged
A US judge ruled that a fraud defendant’s AI chats with Claude are not privileged

In a February ruling described as the first of its kind in the US, Judge Jed Rakoff found that Bradley Heppner’s conversations with Anthropic’s Claude about his legal exposure stripped away both attorney-client privilege and work-product protection, be…

Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface
Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface

Adobe launched the Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational agent that orchestrates tasks across Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Illustrator, Express, and Frame.io using natural language. Previously codenamed Project Moonlight, it enters public beta in c…

US utilities plan to spend $1.4 trillion by 2030 to power the AI boom
US utilities plan to spend $1.4 trillion by 2030 to power the AI boom

A report analysing capital spending plans from 51 investor-owned utilities finds the $1.4 trillion figure is double what was invested in the prior decade. More than 30 utilities cited data centres as a top growth driver. Average residential electricity…

Gizmo secures $22M Series A to advance AI-powered education

Gizmo, a London-based AI-poweredlearning platform, has raised $22 million in Series A funding to support itsinternational expansion and further development of its technology. The roundwas led by Shine…

Nvidia releases open AI models for quantum computing tasks — ‘Ising’ said to be 2.5x faster and 3x more accurate than existing tools for decoding

Nvidia has announced Ising, a family of open-source AI models for quantum processor calibration and real-time error correction decoding that claims to offer substantial speedups over existing methods.

SolvaPay raises €2.4M to build payment infrastructure for agentic commerce

SolvaPay,a Stockholm-based AI payments platform, has raised €2.4 million in pre-seedfunding to develop payment infrastructure for the emerging era of agenticcommerce. The round was led by European fin…

FluidStack is in talks to raise $1B at an $18B valuation
FluidStack is in talks to raise $1B at an $18B valuation

Jane Street and Situational Awareness are in discussions to co-lead the round, Bloomberg reports. The Oxford-founded neocloud, which relocated from the UK to the US after landing a $50 billion data centre partnership with Anthropic, has grown its reven…

Anthropic, OpenAI, and the Pentagon: a cautionary tale for democratic AI governance
Anthropic, OpenAI, and the Pentagon: a cautionary tale for democratic AI governance

On the afternoon of 27 February 2026, Pete Hegseth picked up his phone and posted to X. The US Secretary of Defense had just designated Anthropic, a San Francisco AI company, a “supply chain risk to national security.” The label, under 10 USC 3252, had…

Building trust in the AI era with privacy-led UX
Building trust in the AI era with privacy-led UX

The practice of privacy-led user experience (UX) is a design philosophy that treats transparency around data collection and usage as an integral part of the customer relationship. An undertapped opportunity in digital marketing, privacy-led UX treats user consent not as a tick-box compliance exercise, but rather as the first overture in an ongoing customer relationship.…

Google is expanding Personal Intelligence to Gemini users globally and it’s a huge shift

Google is expanding Personal Intelligence globally for Gemini users, connecting Gmail, Photos, YouTube, Maps and more to deliver smarter, personalized responses without extra prompting from you