TensorWave raises $350M led by AMD to build an Nvidia-free AI cloud
TensorWave raises $350M led by AMD to build an Nvidia-free AI cloud

TensorWave, a cloud provider that runs its AI data centres on AMD chips rather than Nvidia’s, has raised $350M in a Series B round led by AMD and the hedge fund Magnetar Capital. The deal values the Las Vegas startup at $1.55bn. That is nearly four tim…

Your face is the ticket: Google’s Gemini and biometric gates are the World Cup’s quieter tech story
Your face is the ticket: Google’s Gemini and biometric gates are the World Cup’s quieter tech story

The 2026 World Cup is rolling out two layers of technology that most of its 10 million visitors will actually touch: a consumer-AI layer led by Google, and a biometric-identity layer that turns a fan’s face into a ticket. This is the quieter half of th…

SpaceX’s $75 billion IPO is massively oversubscribed, with single investors placing $10 billion orders
SpaceX’s $75 billion IPO is massively oversubscribed, with single investors placing $10 billion orders

SpaceX’s initial public offering has attracted institutional orders for multiple times the available shares, according to people familiar with the matter. Multiple investors have individually placed orders of $10 billion or more. Banks leading the deal…

Klarna launches US savings accounts at 3.28% as the buy-now-pay-later company tries to become a bank
Klarna launches US savings accounts at 3.28% as the buy-now-pay-later company tries to become a bank

Klarna is launching high-yield savings accounts in the United States with an annual percentage yield starting at 3.28%. The accounts are FDIC-insured through a partnership with WebBank and are designed to let existing Klarna spending customers hold sav…

An ‘anti-private-equity’ startup raised $225M to buy Main Street software and rebuild it with AI
An ‘anti-private-equity’ startup raised $225M to buy Main Street software and rebuild it with AI

Private equity buys companies, strips out costs, and flips them. A two-year-old startup called Beacon has raised hundreds of millions to do almost the opposite, and to let AI do the heavy lifting. Beacon, an “AI-native” holding company based in Toronto…

An ex-scooter founder raised $5M to build AI data centres in orbit, where the sun never sets
An ex-scooter founder raised $5M to build AI data centres in orbit, where the sun never sets

AI is running out of power, and out of places to put it, on Earth. A Los Angeles startup wants to solve both problems by leaving the planet. Orbital, a space-infrastructure company building AI data centres in low Earth orbit, has raised a $5mn oversubs…

Robot-arm maker Standard Bots hits a $1bn valuation to scale US manufacturing
Robot-arm maker Standard Bots hits a $1bn valuation to scale US manufacturing

America wants to build robots, not just import them. A New York startup has just raised $200mn to do exactly that. Standard Bots has closed a $200mn round that values the company at $1bn, minting a fresh robotics unicorn. The financing was led by Gener…

NinjaOne’s valuation more than doubles to $12.3bn, and it says it didn’t even need the money
NinjaOne’s valuation more than doubles to $12.3bn, and it says it didn’t even need the money

Most startups raise money because they need it. NinjaOne has just raised more than $400m to make the opposite point. The Austin-based IT-operations company said on Tuesday that a fresh round of Series C extensions has more than doubled its valuation to…

A federal judge just threw out Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, calling it an unlawful tax
A federal judge just threw out Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, calling it an unlawful tax

US District Judge Leo T. Sorokin in Massachusetts ruled on Monday that the $100,000 fee President Donald Trump imposed on H-1B visa applications is an unlawful tax and must be vacated. The ruling found that the proclamation violated both the federal Ad…

Trump orders the military to adopt AI faster, protect models from China, and never let a vendor pull the plug
Trump orders the military to adopt AI faster, protect models from China, and never let a vendor pull the plug

President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 11 on Friday, directing the US military and intelligence agencies to accelerate their adoption of advanced AI while protecting frontier models from theft by foreign adversaries. Th…