At SXSW London last week I gave a talk called “Five things you need to know about AI,” in which I shared what I think are the biggest themes in AI right now. I pulled a few things from our first AI10 list, an annual guide to the most important trends in this buzzy world,…
Apple’s most important AI announcement at WWDC 2026 was not a feature. It was an architecture. The rebuilt Siri runs on a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter model built on Google’s Gemini technology, hosted on Google Cloud servers powered by Nvidia Blackwel…
Perplexity AI plans to go public in 2028, and CEO Aravind Srinivas told CNBC that timeline has not changed because OpenAI and Anthropic are now filing for IPOs. “Agnostic of these two companies, we were planning for something in 2028, so that still rem…
Fujikura, the Tokyo-based fibre-optic cable manufacturer, is raising prices on the cables that connect servers inside AI data centres. CEO Naoki Okada told Bloomberg the company is on track to beat its own forecast thanks to sustained demand from nearl…
Merchantee, a company developing AI-driven marketplaceintelligence tools for e-commerce sellers, has raised €1.8 million in funding.The round was led by Reflex Capital, with participation from Czech F…
OpenAI submitted confidential IPO paperwork to the SEC on Monday, the company confirmed. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are advising on a potential listing that could come as soon as the autumn, according to people familiar with the matter. The filin…
Deliverance AI, a UK-founded provider ofenterprise AI infrastructure, has emerged from stealth, reporting £6 million inannual recurring revenue (ARR), more than 30 employees, and six enterprisecustome…
fonio.ai, a Europeanprovider of AI-powered customer communication solutions for small andmedium-sized businesses, has raised $17 million in seed funding at a $140million valuation. The round was led b…
London-basedstartup Zaro has emerged from stealth with $5.1 million in pre-seed funding todevelop a platform designed to unify enterprise AI tools, workflows, and datawithin a single adaptive workspac…
Elon Musk’s rocket and AI company is expected to acquire the buzzy AI coding startup shortly after it goes public.