Andy Burnham says the UK will use its G20 presidency to broker a global AI agreement, pitching Britain as an honest broker, Politico reported.

Anthropic and OpenAI have asked Australia to relax rules that block AI training on local creative work, tying the issue to data centre plans.

DeepSeek is set to join OpenAI and Anthropic in briefing the UN Security Council on AI risks this week, Reuters reported, citing two sources.

FintechOS has raised $28M in equity and debt from its backers and Santander CIB after turning profitable, with US revenue up 130%.

Paris AI startup Biolevate has raised a €30M Series A co-led by Orange Ventures and RAISE France and opened a Boston office.

Leuven-based Spott has raised a $21M Series A led by Balderton Capital for its AI-native tracking and CRM platform for recruitment agencies.

Benford has raised €5M in pre-seed funding led by firstminute capital to build a tech-native audit firm that runs statutory audits end to end.

Helsinki AI cloud company Verda has raised $189M in a round led by Emergence Capital and says it is now valued at $1B or more.

Jet2 has signed a multi-year deal with Adobe to use agentic AI to personalise offers and trip ideas for its 10 million myJet2 ...

Morphotonics has closed a Series B of more than €40M to scale nanoimprint machines that make waveguides for AI glasses and AR headsets.

Oura launched a $2.2bn IPO at a $14.1bn valuation. Three-quarters of the shares on offer are being sold by existing stockholders, not the company.

Nvidia is adding $1.5B of SB Energy shares at 90% of the listing price, taking its stake to $3B. SoftBank's European build runs on a 2031 timetable.