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UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups

Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis are heading to the G7. The rivals have a lot to discuss.

Infineon is opening a €5 billion chip factory in Dresden. It is the EU Chips Act’s first major success.

The world’s top-selling robot vacuum maker is eyeing a Hong Kong IPO. It also wants to build a hypercar.

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UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups
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Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 curbs target China. The backlash came from its own side.
Anthropic
Altman, Amodei, and Hassabis are heading to the G7. The rivals have a lot to discuss.
Anthropic
Alibaba is offering $1.5 billion for China’s last big independent grocer. The bidding war with Meituan is on.
Asia
Infineon is opening a €5 billion chip factory in Dresden. It is the EU Chips Act’s first major success.
Deep tech
The world’s top-selling robot vacuum maker is eyeing a Hong Kong IPO. It also wants to build a hypercar.
Asia
SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history. Japanese retail investors got $2.2 billion of it.
Finance
Equal AI raised $30M to screen phone calls for Indians who get 20 spam calls a week
Apps
Anthropic is spending $150 million to embed 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofits. No degree required.
Anthropic
ShinyHunters breached 100+ companies through an unpatched Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day
Data and security
AI needs judgment, not a job description: Michael Ronis on the future of recruitment
Artificial Intelligence
Bluesky launches group chats and pivots to communities as growth stalls at 44.8 million users
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GOVERNMENT AND POLICY

UK tech secretary vows to push pension funds into British AI startups

Liz Kendall wants legal reforms to unlock institutional capital for domestic tech firms, but American companies keep winning the biggest contracts.

Investors and funding

ASIA

The world’s top-selling robot vacuum maker is eyeing a Hong Kong IPO. It also wants to build a hypercar.

Dreame Technology, valued at $9.6 billion in a pre-IPO round, is considering a listing as soon as next year. The former Xiaomi ecosystem company now dominates robot vacuum sales in 30 countries.

Corporates and innovation

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Meta signs its first India data-centre deal, leasing a 168MW AI facility from Reliance

Reliance will build and run the Jamnagar site on renewable power and desalinated seawater. Meta is the latest hyperscaler sending AI compute to India.