Insider Brief Pure Data Centres Group has secured $2.7 billion in financing, comprising a $2.15 billion facility backed by its Dublin and Amsterdam campuses and a $550 million corporate-level facility, with new institutional partners including SMBC, ABN AMRO, and Allianz Global Investors. The Dublin campus recently became Europe’s first carbon net-zero data centre microgrid and…

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Insider Brief Geordie AI, a security and governance platform for AI agents, has raised a $30 million Series A led by Balderton Capital, bringing total funding to $36.5 million, with the capital earmarked for product development and US expansion. The platform gives enterprises real-time visibility into which AI agents exist, what they can access, how…

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Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant it plans to begin testing within the next year, according to an internal memo viewed by The Information. The device builds on technology from Limitless, the AI wearable startup Meta acquired in late 2025, whose pendant allowed users to record and process conversations via AI. The memo also outlines…

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A policy analysis from mid-2026 When Sir Keir Starmer stood before cameras on 13 January 2025 and unveiled the AI Opportunities Action Plan, he made a characteristically blunt argument: the UK could either shape the AI revolution or be shaped by it. “We will not be a technology taker,” he said. The plan itself , commissioned from…

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AI chip startup Groq is raising $650 million from existing investors to expand its inference cloud business, according to reporting by Axios, as the company pivots toward hosting inference-heavy applications for developers and enterprises. The fundraise follows a $20 billion not-an-acquisition agreement with Nvidia in December, under which senior Groq employees joined the chip giant and Nvidia…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. A startup will clean your New York apartment for free. The bill comes due in a currency you might not expect: the data captured during the process. MicroAGI’s new Shift app subsidizes the cleanings by recording workers on the job,…

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Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC today for a proposed public offering. The company also shipped Claude Opus 4.8 last week with a 4x code-reliability gain. NVIDIA used GTC Taipei to open Cosmos 3, ramp Vera Rubin into production, and put a 1-petaflop AI box on developer laptops. Google retires Gemini 2.0…

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Automation is becoming a bigger part of how financial markets are approached, and forex trading is one area where this is becoming easier to notice. As the tech world improves, more traders are looking for ways to stay involved in the market without the need to sit in front of charts for hours at a…

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A Google Cloud survey found that 90% of developers are already integrating AI into their daily work, and on Steam, 7,818 titles disclosed AI use in 2025 alone, a 681% increase over the previous year. AI in video game development is not a side experiment. It is restructuring the pipeline from concept through launch, and…

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Insider Brief SoftBank Group plans to invest up to €75 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in France, with an initial €45 billion phase targeting 3.1 gigawatts across sites in Dunkirk, Bosquel and Bouchain by 2031. The project includes a partnership with Schneider Electric to establish a manufacturing cluster in Dunkirk,…

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