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Eric Schmidt was booed at the University of Arizona. Gloria Caulfield was booed at UCF. The framing called it generational confusion. The numbers say it was generational accuracy.

Viktor, the Warsaw- and Munich-based AI-coworker company built by ex-Meta engineers, has raised a $75m Series A led by Accel.

CircuitHub has raised $28m led by Plural to expand its automated PCB-manufacturing 'Grid' factories across Europe and the US.

RemotePass has raised $17.4m in Series B funding led by EBRD Venture Capital, with 500 Global joining alongside returning investors.

Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director, joins Anthropic to build a team using Claude to accelerate pre-training research.

Analog Devices agrees to acquire Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion in cash, adding integrated voltage regulators that cut AI data-centre power use by 20%.

SpaceX expects to close its $60 billion Cursor acquisition in July, roughly 30 days after its record-breaking Nasdaq IPO. A $10 billion breakup fee backs the deal.

OpenAI joins the C2PA standard and partners with Google to embed invisible SynthID watermarks, creating a dual-layer system to identify AI-generated images.

Discord has switched on end-to-end encryption for every voice and video call, with no opt-in required. The DAVE protocol means not even Discord can listen in.

H2O.ai unveiled tabH2O at Dell Technologies World 2026, a foundation model that generates predictions from tabular data in seconds with no model training required.