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Mira Murati isn’t a natural creature of the conference stage. As the CTO of OpenAI, she was present but rarely the public face of the company. As CEO of her own company, Thinking Machines Lab, she has been even harder to find. So when she sat down with Bloomberg in San Francisco on Thursday — her first major media appearance in roughly 18 months — it was worth paying attention, even if she was careful not to say too much. The timing makes sense. Thinking Machines has spent the better part of a year and a half operating largely in…

Skipper Sam Billings has urged his Kent Spitfires side to avoid complacency despite a bright start to the T20 Blast.Spitfires sit third in the South group, with three wins from four games, ahead of matches at Sussex on Sunday and Essex on Tuesday evening.Kent Spitfires skipper Sam Billings won’t let his side’s focus drift after an impressive start to this year’s T20 Blast campaign. Picture: Keith Gillard“We’re very happy overall,” said Billings. “You can’t be complacent in this group as well.“It’s a tough group, so you have to be pretty ruthless and clinical every single day.”Speaking after Sunday’s impressive win…

Helion, the fusion startup backed by Sam Altman, announced on Thursday that it had raised $465 million in a new funding round that values the company at $15.5 billion. The cash infusion lands as Helion is racing to complete Orion, its first power plant. The startup has set an aggressive timeline to deploy fusion power to the grid, as early as 2028 if it can deliver on the terms of its deal with Microsoft.  The startup last raised $425 million in January 2025. Altogether, Helion said it has raised $1.5 billion. The new round, a Series G, was led by…

Jonathan Gould, the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) nominated by Donald Trump, implied that the US president had not ordered him to approve or give special consideration to a national trust charter application tied to his family’s financial interests.In a Thursday hearing of the House Financial Service Committee on “oversight of prudential regulators,” New York Representative Gregory Meeks questioned Gould on the Trump family crypto company World Liberty Financial’s connections to foreign governments and the Binance exchange. The company, whose co-founders include Trump and his sons, applied for an OCC charter in January, prompting backlash from many Democratic lawmakers alleging conflicts…

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Just when you thought the AI data center boom couldn’t get any crazier, Meta has gone and built data centers in tents. The strategy appears to borrow in equal parts from Tesla and xAI. In a bid to cut construction time in half, Meta has built six tents — or “rapid deployment structures” as the company describes them — outside of New Albany, Ohio, according to Michael Thomas, founder of Cleanview, which tracks data center deployments. Thomas’ findings aren’t totally new. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke to The Information last year about his plan to use weatherproof tents to house the…

With just two weeks to go, StrictlyVC Los Angeles is quickly approaching. On Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corporation Campus in El Segundo, investors, founders, and tech leaders will gather for an evening of conversation exploring some of the most consequential shifts taking place across venture capital, defense technology, artificial intelligence, and advanced industry. Secure your spot here. For executives navigating a rapidly changing technology landscape, StrictlyVC offers something increasingly difficult to find: direct access to the people building, funding, and shaping the next generation of companies. The conversations are candid, the audience is highly curated, and the insights extend far beyond what can be found in…

At around 11.40pm on Wednesday, June 3, the off-duty officer spotted the motorcycles in the Shinewater area of Eastbourne and alerted colleagues after observing them being ridden in a dangerous manner. One of the motorcycles was reportedly displaying no registration plate, and the riders were believed to be carrying fuel canisters. Given ongoing issues involving stolen motorcycles in the area, officers swiftly launched a search. The motorcycles were located on Willingdon Drove, where officers attempted to stop them. The riders failed to stop and made off through Eastbourne, prompting a coordinated response involving local policing teams, operational support units and…

The 2026 FIFA World Cup is cooking up one of the busiest marketing opportunities of the year with 53% of UK brands on Klaviyo’s European Cultural Moments Marketing Report saying they will be running campaigns around the tournament. Also, 88% of brands plan to increase marketing spending to make the most of the competition, with 54% who will be taking up spending by more than a fifth. Marketers see events such as the World Cup as a rare chance to try new ideas. According to Klaviyo, 72% of UK marketers say cultural moments such as the World Cup give them…

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has had enough of merely being an artificial intelligence kingmaker. He now plans to back a new AI lab of his own. The news, broken by Bloomberg and confirmed to TechCrunch by a person familiar with the situation, marks Chesky as one of many Silicon Valley machers who are unsatisfied with the models coming out of the frontier labs. While Airbnb has adopted AI coding tools, Chesky said last year it hasn’t struck an LLM partnership because existing products weren’t quite ready. Still, Chesky has plenty of insight. He met Sam Altman in 2006 through Y…