
Nvidia posts another record quarter, reveals $43B of holdings in startups
Nvidia announced another record revenue figure after market close on Wednesday, but forecasted that revenue growth would slow in the following quarter.

Nvidia announced another record revenue figure after market close on Wednesday, but forecasted that revenue growth would slow in the following quarter.

SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals xAI lost $6.4 billion in 2025 while planning a massive Grok expansion — offering the first public look at Elon Musk’s AI financials and more details about his ambitions.

The video clipping startup raised a $7 million seed round led by Slow Ventures.

Anthropic has told its investors that it will more than double revenue to around $10.9 billion in its second quarter.

Alibaba has unveiled a new AI processor built specifically for AI agents, pairing the chip announcement with a multi-year silicon roadmap and a new large language model, signalling that the company is building an integrated AI stack, not just filling a gap left by US export controls. The Zhenwu M890, developed by Alibaba’s semiconductor subsidiary […]
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Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash beats its own flagship on coding and agentic benchmarks while running four times faster and at half the cost.
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Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash, a real-time multimodal translation model that processes audio and video simultaneously. The model covers 60 input languages and produces speech output in 29 languages at 2.8 seconds of latency. Key additions over the previous Qwen3 version include real-time speaker voice cloning, vision-enhanced comprehension via lip movements and on-screen text, and dynamic keyword configuration for domain-specific terminology. On FLEURS and CoVoST2 benchmarks, the model outperforms major commercial alternatives. It is available as an API-only model through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio using a WebSocket-based protocol.
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NVIDIA researchers have released Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, a language model family that unifies three decoding modes in one architecture. The model supports autoregressive (AR) decoding, diffusion-based parallel decoding, and self-speculation decoding. It is available in 3B, 8B, and 14B parameter sizes. The family includes base, instruct, and vision-language variants. Sequential Decoding Limits Throughput Standard autoregressive (AR) language […]
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Chipmaker’s spending rivals Big Tech’s biggest venture operations, tying customers and start-ups to its technology

The co-founder of the legal start-up talks about how AI could shake up law firms’ business models and how he plans to stay ahead of rivals

Move by private equity owner comes as long-awaited London IPO of group is shelved

The IPO of big sector companies is probably nothing more than a transfer of investment risk to retail investors

Global Healthcare Opportunities and CBC Group say $21bn investment manager will be world’s largest in sector

In this monthly series, running alongside our existing Tech Exchange dialogues, FT journalists talk to the scientists, developers and business leaders exploring ever more applications for artificial intelligence, in every aspect of our lives

US president’s stream of fake imagery on Truth Social is reshaping the boundaries of political communication

Beijing aims to support domestic players including Huawei and Cambricon as they catch up to US rivals

Just through mid-May, China-based robotics companies have already raised $5.6 billion across 176 deals this year, Crunchbase data shows, a sum matching total venture funding to the nation’s robotics companies in all of 2021, the peak of the funding cycle.

Gaia uses artificial intelligence and machine learning — trained on millions of anonymized historical data points and fertility outcomes — to better understand risk and probability for fertility treatment.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has found HR and People leaders grappling with labor market uncertainty and scaling AI across organizations. UNLEASH examines what the next actions for CPOs should be to harness the power of skills, AI and redesigning roles.

Despite record search interest in Canada and Spain, a different country ranks first for American workers choosing to relocate abroad.
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Walk into UNIQLO’s Orchard Central Global Flagship Store on a weekend, and you might find a group of children learning how to fold T-shirts with military precision—competing, laughing, and walking away with a custom-designed tee they made themselves. It is not a school field trip; it is an investment in the future of one of […]
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A California county has sued social media giant Meta, alleging the company profits from fraudulent ads on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The complaint, filed May 11 in Santa Clara Superior Court, alleges Meta tracks about 15 billion fraudulent ads and earns roughly $7 billion a year in internal “violating revenue,” according to reporting based on […]
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OpenAI for Singapore launches a multi-year AI partnership to expand deployment, build local talent, and support businesses and public services with AI.

OpenAI advances Education for Countries, expanding AI adoption in schools with new partnerships, teacher training, and tools to improve global learning outcomes.

Google is letting users create drafts, take notes, and search for email with voice with the new Workspace update.

Day two of TechEx North America has been more of a deeper, critical examination of AI in the enterprise, but with a optimistic bent. The AI and Big Data programme opened with reference to what was termed the “AI graveyard” – that is, AI projects that seem to perform well in pilot, but don’t seem […]
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Google used its I/O 2026 developer keynote to ship a meaningful architectural shift in how it packages AI-assisted development. The company announced Google Antigravity 2.0 — a standalone desktop application built entirely around agent orchestration alongside an Antigravity CLI, an Antigravity SDK, Managed Agents in the Gemini API, and enterprise support through the Gemini Enterprise […]
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Not all database platforms are built for the same job.Not all database platforms are built for the same job. Here is how Upstash, Supabase, and Neon actually differ — and which one fits your vibe coding workflow in 2026.
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Chip designer’s $6.4bn raise signals demand ahead of huge listings expected from SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic

CEO Sundar Pichai says features powered by new Gemini model will close gap with Anthropic and OpenAI

A recent survey by INTOO shows workers aren’t afraid to use AI, but want guidance on use of such tech in the workplace.
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International hiring has become far more accessible over the past decade, but the need for compliance has grown just as quickly.
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New EY research finds people factors and HR teams are make-or-break elements as M&A deal activity surges in 2026.
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The Patients Before Monopolies Act bill has returned with a bipartisan list of supporters in both the House and the Senate.
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Workforce data fragmentation is draining budgets and slowing decisions. Here’s what the numbers say and why it’s hard to fix.
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