Somewhere in Hasbro’s network, someone was where they should not have been. The $14.4 billion toy and entertainment conglomerate, owner of Peppa Pig, Transformers, Monopoly, Dungeons & Dragons, Nerf, Play-Doh, and Power…
Month: April 2026
OpenAI is hiring ad-tech firms to make ChatGPT ads talk back to you
Six weeks was all it took. On 9 February, OpenAI switched on advertisements inside ChatGPT for free-tier users in the United States. By late March, the company disclosed that the pilot had…
A 27-year-old just raised $450 million to bet that AI’s future runs on nuclear power
Isaiah Taylor was sixteen when he decided the nuclear industry had a size problem. Not that reactors were too dangerous or too expensive, though they are both, but that they were simply…
Klarna just struck a $1.7 billion deal to free up capital for $40 billion in lending. Its stock is down 76 per cent from its IPO high.
Six months after listing on the New York Stock Exchange at $40 a share, Klarna is trading at roughly $12. The Swedish buy-now-pay-later company that once symbolised European fintech’s arrival on Wall…
More than 100 Baidu robotaxis froze mid-traffic in Wuhan. The age of the mass fleet failure has arrived.
On Tuesday evening in Wuhan, more than 100 of Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis stopped moving. They did not pull over. They did not activate an emergency protocol. They simply froze, scattered across…
Australia says Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube are not complying with its child social media ban. Court action may follow.
Three months after Australia became the first country in the world to ban children under 16 from holding social media accounts, its online safety regulator says the platforms are not doing enough…
China’s third-largest chip foundry just filed for a Hong Kong listing. The real story is the $5 billion fab behind it.
Nexchip Semiconductor filed for a listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Tuesday, joining a stampede of Chinese chip companies turning to the city’s capital markets as Beijing pours resources into…
Corti’s new Symphony AI beats OpenAI and Anthropic on medical coding
The Copenhagen-based health AI company built Symphony on peer-reviewed research from the largest medical coding study of its kind, treating coding as a reasoning task rather than a labelling problem. It’s available…
Credibur hits €2B in debt facility volume on its private credit infrastructure platform
The Berlin fintech, which raised $2.2M in pre-seed in July 2025, has connected clients managing €2 billion in structured debt portfolios to its continuous monitoring and reconciliation platform, faster than almost any…
Pickmybrain raises $2.1M pre-seed to let experts monetise their knowledge through AI “Digital Brains”
The Tallinn-based platform, formerly WOIS.io, hosts over 1,000 professionals including Rovio co-founder Peter Vesterbacka and ex-Netflix CMO Bozoma Saint John. AI handles routine questions; high-value queries go to the expert via 1:1…