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Google’s TurboQuant compresses AI memory by 6x, rattles chip stocks
Google published a research blog post on Tuesday about a new compression algorithm for AI models. Within hours, memory stocks were falling. Micron dropped 3 per cent, Western Digital...
OpenAI releases open-source teen safety tools for AI developers
OpenAI has spent the past year fielding lawsuits from the families of young people who died after extended interactions with ChatGPT. Now it is trying to give the developers...
JAAQ raises $17M to embed clinically governed mental health content
The London-based platform, which already covers 1.5 million eligible lives across enterprise and healthcare deployments, is using the Series A to accelerate US market entry and deepen its clinical...
Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (16 -22 March)
A quieter week by headline standards, but one that reveals a great deal about where European venture capital is quietly concentrating: AI agents for physical industries, agritech automation, and...
Super Micro’s co-founder is charged of smuggling servers to China
The indictment of Super Micro’s co-founder exposes not just a $2.5 billion scheme, it exposes a system that was never built to stop one. Somewhere in a rented warehouse...
WordPress.com lets AI agents write, publish, and manage your site
Automattic has added write capabilities to WordPress.com’s MCP integration, giving AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT the ability to create posts, build pages, manage comments, and restructure content, all...
AI analytics agents need guardrails, not more model size
Picture a VP of finance at a large retailer. She asks the company’s new AI analytics agent a simple question: “What was our revenue last quarter?” The answer comes...
GlobalComix raises $13M, acquires INKR, and appoints new CEO
The New York digital comics platform is combining its 300,000-title library with INKR’s AI localisation engine, and bringing in new leadership to execute the expansion. The problem with getting...
Operator Circle launches to back Europe’s next decacorn
Dozens of executives from European tech scaleups have backed a new venture firm built on the thesis that people who have scaled billion-dollar companies know which founders can do...
Oxford Medical Simulation secures £5M growth financing
The London-based healthtech company, which lets clinicians practise emergencies and difficult conversations in virtual reality, will use the capital to deepen its US footprint and accelerate AI-driven product development....
