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QuantWare raises $178 million to scale quantum production

The Delft-based quantum processor developer has secured $178 million from investors, including Intel Capital, to expand manufacturing, the company said in an announcement.

Five things you didn't know about ChatGPT 5.5, including the one stat OpenAI doesn't want you to see

But, is it better than Anthropic's latest model?

Shopify beats every estimate Wall Street throws at it, and the stock still drops 13%

The e-commerce giant posted 34% revenue growth and crushed earnings expectations, but softer guidance and a brutal year for software stocks turned a strong quarter into a sell-off

10 myths around Mythos and 10 realities that will scare you

Anthropic's restricted cybersecurity model has triggered wild speculation and genuine alarm in equal measure. The myths are wrong. The realities are worse

Tech layoffs more than double to highest quarterly total in two years as firms redirect spending to AI

The largest individual contributions came from two of the industry's biggest employers

Five Eyes intelligence alliance warns agentic AI poses growing cybersecurity threat

Security agencies from five nations urge organisations to treat autonomous AI systems as a significant expansion of their attack surface

Bitcoin rallies past $80,000

The cryptocurrency Bitcoin jumps above $80,000, hitting its highest level since January amid stronger Asian equities and renewed institutional flows.

Pony AI targets robotaxi cheaper than a Tesla Model 3 as Chinese operators race to cut costs

The company operates 1,446 robotaxis and is targeting more than 3,000 by the end of this year

Orbs launches trading interface built for AI agents as autonomous crypto execution gains traction

SPOT gives autonomous systems direct access to advanced order types across decentralised exchanges without a human-facing frontend

Tesla sales in Spain fall 47.3% in April

New-car registrations plunged in April while electric vehicle sales expanded

Asian Development Bank launches critical minerals fund as nations scramble to loosen China's grip

The initiative aims to help Asia-Pacific countries move beyond raw material extraction into processing and recycling

Cuban warns enterprise AI will be 'a mess' as rival models create corporate complexity

Billionaire warns that competing AI models from Microsoft and Alphabet will create heavy integration burdens for enterprises.

Prediction market bettors give Nvidia 69% chance of holding world's biggest company crown

Elon Musk's ego may be the biggest obstacle to his OpenAI lawsuit

The billionaire has a legitimate case against OpenAI's nonprofit-to-profit conversion, but his inability to stop talking about himself is handing ammunition to the other side

Demis Hassabis says AGI is missing two critical ingredients

The Google DeepMind chief and Nobel laureate told a live audience that continual learning and long-term reasoning remain unsolved problems on the road to artificial general intelligence

MediaTek hires former TSMC packaging pioneer as it pushes into AI accelerator chips

Douglas Yu helped develop the CoWoS technology that underpins Nvidia's data centre GPUs and is now in critically short supply

AI spending could drive three-quarters of US GDP growth in 2026, White House AI czar claims

David Sacks cited a Morgan Stanley report raising hyperscaler capital expenditure forecasts to $805 billion this year and $1.1 trillion in 2027

Chinese robotic hands maker Linkerbot targets $6 billion valuation after doubling in latest funding round

The two-year-old startup claims more than 80% of the global market for high-dexterity robotic hands and plans to double production to 10,000 units a month

Anthropic in talks to buy inference chips from Oxford-founded startup Fractile in boost for UK AI hardware

A deal would give the Claude developer a fourth chip supply track alongside Nvidia, Google and Amazon as surging demand strains its existing server capacity

Anthropic finalising $1.5bn joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs and Hellman & Friedman

The deal would create a consulting-style vehicle to deploy Claude AI tools across thousands of private equity portfolio companies, with a formal announcement expected on Monday