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Google parent company Alphabet said Monday that it plans to raise $80 billion to help pay for the massive AI infrastructure buildout it has planned. Alphabet will sell off that amount in stock, and will then use the funds to pay for “general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures to scale AI infrastructure and global compute,” the company said in a statement. Part of the plan involves selling $10 billion in stock to Berkshire Hathaway, the massive global holding company formerly led by Warren Buffet. “The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers,…

“Every home represents an important life decision, and I’m incredibly grateful for the trust my clients continue to place in me. This recognition reflects not only strong results, but also the relationships and confidence built over many years serving Atlanta homeowners and families.” — Betsy Akers Post this According to the Atlanta REALTORS® Association rankings, Betsy Akers achieved more than $72 million in annual sales volume while also earning: 16 Years Top Producer recognition Life Membership status Top 5% ranking among Metro Atlanta REALTORS® No. 3 Individual Agent by Volume for 2025 A longtime Buckhead resident and founding member of…

Mach Industries, the three-year-old defense tech startup run by 22-year-old founder and CEO Ethan Thornton, has raised a $300 million Series C at a $1.8 billion valuation, the company announced on Monday. The raise nearly quadruples the valuation of the company in a year. In June 2025, Mach raised $100 million at a $470 million valuation. Other investors include Bedrock Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Khosla Ventures. The round was led by deep-tech fund Infinite Capital and Ribbit Capital, known for fintech and lately in hot deals everywhere — from AI coding startups like Cognition to neoclouds like Crusoe. Since building…

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Police on patrol in Crawley on April 16 were alerted to a white Renault Kangoo driven by Lee Houghton. The 38-year-old was subject to a two-year driving ban, having been convicted of drink-driving, dangerous driving, failing to stop when required by police and common assault of an emergency worker on February 27. The vehicle was spotted near County Oak Retail Park and seen to contravene a red light signal and cross two lanes of 40mph traffic, before continuing at speed. The Roads Policing Unit officers therefore activated their blue lights and pursued the van through a residential area to Juniper…

A new contender is beginning to secure space on executive agendas as organisations think about technologies that could influence the next decade after AI, and the contender is: quantum computing. 87% of UK business leaders expect quantum computing to disrupt their sector by 2030. This is according to EY’s Quantum Business Readiness Report, produced with the National Quantum Computing Centre and after surveying 500 leaders from companies generating more than £150m in revenue, this is what they found: That expectation has already turned into planning activity, with EY finding that 35% of UK business leaders have made quantum computing a…

Some of the most consequential companies in tech history didn’t launch with a splashy fundraising announcement. They started with a pitch. Dropbox demoed to a room of skeptics. Cloudflare took the stage before most people understood what edge networking meant. Discord was a scrappy game developer called Hammer & Chisel. Mint, Trello, Forethought, N26 — all of them passed through the same crucible: TechCrunch Startup Battlefield. That’s not a coincidence. Battlefield isn’t just a competition. It’s a launchpad, and the numbers back it up. More than 1,700 companies have competed on the Battlefield stage. Together, they’ve raised $32 billion in…

The fate of America’s current crypto market may hinge on a Senate vote expected this month, and few people are watching it closer than Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad. In an interview on Fox Business’ Mornings with Maria earlier today, Shirzad made the case that the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act — known as the CLARITY Act — represents the most significant financial regulatory legislation since Dodd-Frank, and that passage is within reach. “This will be the biggest financial regulatory bill that Congress has done in quite some time, certainly since Dodd-Frank,” Shirzad said. “What this does is it…

OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, were sued by the Florida Attorney General on Monday, in a first-of-its-kind state litigation effort over ChatGPT’s alleged links to a number of violent incidents. The lawsuit accuses OpenAI of looking the other way on safety concerns as it has sought to prioritize winning “the AI arms race and amass large fortunes.” “Today, we announced the first-in-the-nation state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman,” said Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier. “OpenAI and Altman ignored internal and external safety warnings, put children at great risk, and allowed a dangerous product to reach millions of Floridians.”…

Monday 01 June 2026 5:57 pm Negotiations to end the Iran war have stretched over several weeks Iran has withdrawn from peace talks with the United States and threatened to launch an attack on Israel after the Netanyahu administration announced plans for an air strike on neighbouring Lebanon.According to a state-affiliated news agency, Tehran has vowed to hit back at northern Israel if Lebanon is hit by Israeli strikes and end “talks and exchange of texts through intermediaries” with the US until Israel ends its offensives in both Gaza and Beirut.In a dramatic escalation of the conflict in the Middle…