Venture Dispatch

Deep Tech

  1. US government orders Anthropic to kill Fable 5 and Mythos 5 in unprecedented AI model recall
  2. India’s Avataar AI launches a video model that costs $0.005 per second, 27x cheaper than rivals
  3. Five cloud security mistakes that start at the architecture level
  4. China opens its first photonic computing lab as it bets on light to outrun US chip curbs
  5. London Tech Week 2026: the AI billions, the US build-out, and a royal first
  6. Mistral is in funding talks at a €20bn valuation
  7. Irish fleet-safety firm CameraMatics raises up to €49M to take on Samsara in the US
  8. Germany’s Vsquared is taking on Atomico and Balderton on their London home turf
  9. Upriver raises $14M to fix the unglamorous layer where enterprise AI quietly breaks: the data
  10. Meta signs its first India data-centre deal, leasing a 168MW AI facility from Reliance
  11. Amazon’s UK investment passes £1bn in Northamptonshire with 4,000 jobs, and a floor full of robots
  12. Salesforce acquires m3ter to add consumption-based billing to Agentforce
  13. Apple and Google both want to monitor the web for you
  14. NinjaOne’s valuation more than doubles to $12.3bn, and it says it didn’t even need the money
  15. Xero partners with Anthropic to put small business finances inside Claude
  16. Theia Insights raises $8M to replace the static industry classification systems
  17. Google’s new compression algorithm cut memory stocks within hours of publication