In short: Amazon’s satellite internet service, rebranded from Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo in November 2025, entered enterprise beta on April 8, 2026, with commercial availability targeted for mid-2026 per Andy Jassy’s annual…
Month: April 2026
Gmail’s end-to-end encryption comes to mobile, a year after its web launch
In short: Google has brought end-to-end encryption in Gmail to Android and iOS, closing the mobile gap that remained after the feature launched on the web in April 2025. Enterprise users on Google…
10 Best SOC 2 Compliance Software for 2026
You’ve just closed a massive deal with a dream enterprise client. Then, the email lands: “Please send over your SOC 2 Type II report.” Panic sets in. You don’t have one. You…
Anthropic is exploring building its own AI chips as Claude revenues surge past $30 billion run rate
The plans are early-stage and Anthropic may still decide to only buy chips rather than design them. The exploration comes days after the company signed a long-term deal with Google and Broadcom…
Revolut launches its new AI assistant AIR to UK customers
Revolut, the British virtual bank platform, has just launched its new AI financial assistant named AIR (AI by Revolut) to its more than 13 million customers in the UK. The new AI…
Eight, the Portuguese dating app,is raising a €3M seed round
The app goes live each night between 8 and 9pm, connecting verified users through 30-second video intros and instant live calls. It is currently available in Portugal and the UK. CEO Afonso…
Maeconomy raises €1.5M to give building materials a digital identity
The Dutch startup is tackling one of construction’s most stubborn problems: the fact that most building materials lack traceability, making them impossible to reuse when a structure is demolished or renovated. Maeconomy,…
Serve First secures €5.7M to scale its AI-driven customer experience platform beyond the UK
The Milton Keynes startup, which tripled annual recurring revenue in the 12 months to July 2025, is using the new round to hire a Chief Revenue Officer and continue product development. Serve…
Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize and declares AGI is already here
In short: Matei Zaharia, the Berkeley computer science professor and Databricks co-founder who created Apache Spark, has won the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing for his foundational contributions to distributed data systems and…
Meta commits another $21 billion to CoreWeave, bringing total AI cloud spend to $35 billion
In short: Meta has committed an additional $21 billion to CoreWeave for dedicated AI cloud capacity running from 2027 through December 2032, bringing the total value of the two companies’ infrastructure relationship to…