Logan Brown left a corporate law job at Cooley to launch Soxton, a tech-first legal service for startups. The company has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding and offers services starting at $20 a month, aiming to replace the shaky legal advice founders get from ChatGPT.
Amsterdam-based Volve Capital has closed its first fund at €9 million after a year of fundraising. The VC, founded by entrepreneurs Joost Bijlsma and Maurits Hovius, is targeting pre-Seed, pre-revenue startups in the Benelux and DACH regions.
Lausanne-based Saporo has secured €7 million in Series A funding to scale its graph-native identity security platform. The company argues that current ITDR tools create a “false sense of security” by showing too many attack paths without providing a way to systematically fix them. This round, led by
Apple’s head of AI, John Giannandrea, is retiring in spring 2026. His teams will be redistributed as the company brings in a new leader from Microsoft to overhaul its AI efforts, particularly Siri.
According to a report, Databricks is negotiating a massive $5 billion funding round that would value the AI and data analytics company at $134 billion. This comes just months after it announced a funding round targeting a $100 billion valuation, adding to intense speculation about its IPO plans.
Credit rating agency Morningstar DBRS says sovereign AI is a “material new business opportunity” for telecommunications companies. Their existing network expertise and government relationships make them ideal to lead these sensitive national projects.
The KDE Project has issued a security advisory for KDE Connect and its variants, warning of an authentication bypass vulnerability. The flaw affects specific versions released from around March 2025 and is primarily a risk on untrusted public networks. Here’s how to check if you’re safe.
Opera is phasing out its in-house Aria AI assistant and integrating Google’s Gemini models instead. The new “Opera AI” will be available in Opera One, Opera GX, and the agentic Opera Neon browser. This move signals a major strategic pivot for the browser company.
NVIDIA’s CEO is pushing his own company to fully embrace AI automation, reacting strongly to managers who discouraged it. This comes as other CEOs reveal AI is already writing huge portions of their code, saving hundreds of millions.
In a stunning announcement, Google CEO Sundar Pichai has committed to sending the company’s first hardware to space in 2027. The plan is to build solar-powered data centers in orbit, starting with small test racks of machines. This “moonshot” is a direct response to the massive environmental toll of
