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Ametek to buy Indicor’s instrumentation businesses for $5bn, the largest CD&R partial exit of 2026

Ametek will pay roughly $5bn for the test-and-measurement businesses of Indicor, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice industrial ...
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Apple settles the consumer Siri lawsuit for $250m. The shareholder case is still live.

Apple has settled the Landsheft consumer class action over Siri AI marketing for $250m. The parallel securities-fraud shareholder case continues.
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Google’s top differential-privacy scientist tells the EU its data-sharing plan can be reversed in two hours

Google's scientist Sergei Vassilvitskii has warned the European Commission that its anonymisation method for forced search-data sharing under the DMA can be broken in less than two hours.
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Peter Sarlin’s Qutwo hits $380m valuation in an angel round

After selling Silo AI to AMD for $665m, the Helsinki entrepreneur is doing it again. Qutwo’s angel round prices a quantum-classical orchestration layer with no quantum hardware shipping yet, and ...
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China’s Big Fund is now leading the DeepSeek round, and the price has more than doubled in two weeks

China's Big Fund is now in talks to lead DeepSeek's first external funding round at $45bn, more than double the figure being discussed two weeks ago.
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Samsung Electronics crosses $1tn, joining TSMC, as the AI memory cycle pulls Korea into a record

Samsung Electronics crossed $1tn in market capitalisation on Wednesday, joining TSMC as only the second Asian company to do so.
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Intel is bringing a chip to every computing category at Computex. The last time it could do that, it was the company everyone was trying to catch.

Intel will show Panther Lake Arc G3 handhelds, a 52-core Nova Lake desktop, and 288-core Clearwater Forest Xeon at Computex 2026. All are built on the 18A node.
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China’s humanoid robot boom faces reality check as 150 companies chase a market where only 23% of buyers are satisfied

China has 150+ humanoid robot companies and 90% global market share but only 23% buyer satisfaction. Morgan Stanley warns of a shake-out as IPOs outpace demand.
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AI-native spending surged 94 per cent. Traditional SaaS grew at eight. The enterprise software industry is watching the clock.

AI-native spending grew 94% YoY while traditional SaaS hit 8%. The SaaSpocalypse erased $285B in software valuations. Every enterprise vendor is pivoting to agents.
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Volkswagen just became Rivian’s biggest investor. It is not buying trucks. It is buying the software its own engineers could not build.

VW now holds 15.9% of Rivian after a $1B share purchase, displacing Amazon for the first time since the 2021 IPO. The investment buys software VW failed to build.
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The designer whose Tropicana rebrand crashed sales 20 per cent is now branding the US government. He has two months.

Peter Arnell is now America's first chief brand architect, tasked with unifying 27,000 federal websites by July 4. The studio has already failed accessibility audits.
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A chatbot told a state investigator it was a licensed psychiatrist. It gave a fake licence number. Pennsylvania just sued.

A Character.AI chatbot told a Pennsylvania investigator it was a licensed psychiatrist and gave a fake licence number. The state sued to stop the platform from practising medicine.