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Most satellite startups are racing to build smaller. K2 Space is going the other way, on purpose. Investors just handed it $500 million to keep going bigger. K2 raised a $500 million Series D at a $6.8 billion valuation, it said on Thursday. Kleiner Perkins and ICONIQ led the round, with Alphabets CapitalG, Lightspeed and [] This story continues at The Next Web

The glamorous part of AI is the models. The expensive, unglamorous part is getting them the right data. A startup just raised $40 million betting that job is the next big enterprise layer. DataBahn, a Texas company founded in 2023, has closed a $40 million Series B led by Insight Partners, it said on Thursday. [] This story continues at The Next Web

The AI boom made GPUs famous. The dull chips that wire thousands of those GPUs together are quietly becoming just as valuable. Xsight Labs, an Israeli chipmaker, has raised more than $300 million at a $2.8 billion valuation, it said on Thursday. Fidelity led the round. That is more than five times what the company [] This story continues at The Next Web

Metas answer to the pervert glasses problem was a small light. It switches on when the camera records, to warn anyone nearby. A sticker costing a couple of dollars switches it off. Engadgets Karissa Bell tested the workarounds now on sale, cheap LED-blocking stickers marketed as privacy accessories. One kit cost $16.99 for a dozen. [] This story continues at The Next Web

A year ago, AI search was basically one product with one name: ChatGPT. A new report says that era is already over. Similarwebs 2026 Generative AI Landscape report tracks a market that is booming and splintering at once. Generative AI websites drew 9.5 billion visits a month worldwide between June 2025 and May 2026, up [] This story continues at The Next Web

The European Commission approved the PIF-led take-private of Electronic Arts under its Foreign Subsidies Regulation, removing one of the last hurdles to the biggest leveraged buyout ever. The European Union has cleared the $55bn takeover of Electronic Arts by a Saudi-led consortium, removing one of the last regulatory hurdles to the largest leveraged buyout in [] This story continues at The Next Web

Brazil ordered Jair Bolsonaro to stay silent. Last weekend, a giant AI version of him addressed a campaign rally anyway. At the launch of his son Flvios presidential bid in So Paulo on Saturday, a video avatar of the jailed former president loomed over the crowd. The clever part was the confession. What you see [] This story continues at The Next Web

Every AI agent a company switches on needs an identity to log in and reach data. Enterprises now run millions of them, with almost no way to keep track. That gap just sold for $1bn. The data-security firm Cyera has agreed to buy Oasis Security for around $1bn, the Wall Street Journal first reported. It [] This story continues at The Next Web

ChipAgents, a startup building AI agents that design and test semiconductors, has raised $60 million. The company, a partner of Nvidia, is betting that the same agentic AI reshaping software can be turned on the painstaking business of making chips. The raise adds to an already busy year. ChipAgents closed a $21 million Series A [] This story continues at The Next Web

AI-discovered vulnerabilities are arriving at roughly twice last years rate. Almost none of them are being exploited. The US National Vulnerabilities Database recorded 45,207 software flaws between January and 27 July, already approaching the whole of 2025, which was itself a record. On that trajectory the year ends at roughly double the 2025 total, Bloomberg [] This story continues at The Next Web

ICON plc has agreed a multi-year collaboration with Anthropic to put Claude across the clinical trial process. The Dublin company is a contract research organisation, which means pharmaceutical firms pay it to run their trials. It employed roughly 40,200 people across 99 locations and 55 countries at the end of June. Neither company disclosed financial [] This story continues at The Next Web

Bending Spoons has agreed a 500m loan facility guaranteed by the Italian state. The guarantee comes from SACE, Italys export credit agency, which is wholly owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. HSBC Continental Europe, Intesa Sanpaolo and BPER Banca arranged the facility, which matures in March 2031. The Milan company will use the [] This story continues at The Next Web

Amkor Technology reported record second quarter results on Monday. Revenue reached $1.9bn, up 26% on a year earlier, and net income more than tripled. Operating income roughly doubled to $200m. Earnings came in at $0.70 a diluted share, against $0.22. EBITDA reached $400m. The numbers matter less than what the company plans to do next. [] This story continues at The Next Web

Nvidia is working on a fresh round of AI infrastructure deals potentially worth more than $750 billion, Bloomberg reported, accelerating a pattern of investment that critics say inflates demand and valuations across the sector. The response from the debt market was unusually direct. Nvidias five-year credit default swap spread surged to a record 82 basis [] This story continues at The Next Web

Fitch Ratings has gathered a number of the markets quieter anxieties into a single sentence, warning that a possible AI market correction is now emerging as one of the biggest credit risks facing the global economy. The judgement comes in the agencys third-quarter Global Risk Outlook, published this week, and it lands at a moment [] This story continues at The Next Web

Roughly 750,000 words of AI output costs $50 if you buy it from Anthropics Fable. The same volume from DeepSeeks V4-Pro costs about 87 cents, Fortune reported. Z.AIs GLM-5.2 charges $4.40. Moonshots Kimi K3, pricey by Chinese standards, charges $15. Corporate America has noticed. Companies spent a year competing to burn tokens. Now they shop [] This story continues at The Next Web

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to guarantee about $250bn of financing for OpenAI, a backstop that would let the ChatGPT maker fund a vast new data centre without the investment-grade credit rating such borrowing normally demands. The arrangement was described by theWall Street Journal on July 26, and neither company has confirmed it. The guarantee [] This story continues at The Next Web

The European Commission fined Google 890 million on Thursday for breaking the Digital Markets Act, the first time Brussels has penalised the company under the rulebook it built to rein in the largest technology platforms .The penalty divides in two. A 460 million share coverssearch self-preferencing, where Google gave its own shopping, hotel, transport, and [] This story continues at The Next Web

Alphabet went into its second-quarter results on Wednesday carrying one question louder than the rest: whether the tens of billions it is funnelling into AI infrastructure has started to earn its keep. Judged by the after-hours share price, the answer was not yet. The companyreported revenue of $119.8bnfor the three months to June, up 24% [] This story continues at The Next Web