French deeptech Syntetica has raised $30M to scale its nylon recycling, recycling two grades at once, with Lululemon and Bpifrance among its backers.

SAP closed its acquisition of Prior Labs, maker of TabPFN, a foundation model for structured data. A EUR 1bn-plus bet on tabular AI and a rare European win.

Khosla-backed Bunkerhill Health lets hospitals build their own clinical AI agents. At one health system, 20+ are live, triaging and routing patients.

Eoptolink, which makes the optical transceivers wiring AI data centres for Google and Amazon, filed for a Hong Kong listing of up to $5bn after 236% profit growth.

Airbus is moving 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway for digital sovereignty, keeping sensitive data shielded from US extraterritorial law.

Coca-Cola says a ransomware attack hit its fairlife dairy unit and has suspended all US production while it investigates the breach.

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says a STEM degree still matters in the AI era, and that people who know the fundamentals can use AI tools 10x better.

CoinDesk Research traces crypto exchange evolution through five phases as Binance marks nine years and 316 million users with a super-app strategy.

Databricks has reached a $188bn valuation in a Coatue-led round, above the $175bn it was in talks to raise at, and still in no rush to go public.

SoftBank is reportedly planning a new bond of up to $60bn to fund its OpenAI push, a target that would dwarf its record retail deal and test its leverage.

China's BrainCo unveiled a brain-to-robot platform at WAIC that lets people control robots by thought alone, via an EEG headset, in under 200ms.

Shanghai surgeons implanted Neuracle's NEO, the first commercially approved brain-computer interface. It sits on the brain rather than piercing it.