Zhipu opens its coding tool’s source after a data dispute
The Chinese AI developer published ZCode on GitHub and promised no-retention options for its model platform.
Balderton stakes €23.3M on avatar concerts that can tour
The London producer wants avatar concerts to be cheap enough to run in more than one city.
FintechOS pulls $28M to keep banks off rip-and-replace projects
The London vendor sells an agentic product layer that sits on top of legacy core banking systems.
Engineers ask whether an AI kill switch can exist
CNBC examines whether regulators can force model makers to build a working off switch for runaway AI agents.
AI leaders debate who gets to police the frontier pace
TechCrunch's Equity podcast works through what slowing AI development would actually require.
AI safety, Suno V6 and Miro’s buyer in one week
Lightspeed's weekly show covers the frontier safety debate, Suno's licensed music model and Bending Spoons buying Miro.
Gravitics picks a retired medical device shell for its Nasdaq run
Washington space hardware maker Gravitics will absorb a dormant Florida shell company to reach the Nasdaq.
Electric cement startup CURA bags $10M for Alberta pilot
CURA Climate has raised $10M for electrochemical technology that splits limestone with electricity instead of heat.
Leeds spinout MicroLub lands $10M to cut fat with water
MicroLub has raised $10M to sell food manufacturers a protein-based ingredient that replaces fat lubrication with water.
Brussels hands a French portal the keys to its €180M cloud push
Cycloid will run the developer portal for the European Commission's six-year sovereign cloud framework.
