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• Startup TextWeave mengamankan pendanaan seed sebesar $10 juta bulan lalu untuk memanfaatkan LLM dalam menghasilkan copy pemasaran bagi toko-toko kecil. • Platform ini menjawab kebutuhan ceruk dalam pembuatan konten, menunjukkan bagaimana solusi AI khusus mendorong pertumbuhan startup. • Pendanaan ini selaras dengan tren adopsi perusahaan, di mana AI generatif mendominasi berita startup teknologi untuk tugas-tugas seperti penulisan otomatis.

Presiden AS mengatakan tarif pada mobil dan truk akan naik menjadi 25% dan menuduh Uni Eropa melakukan ketidakpatuhan. Donald Trump menyatakan bahwa ia membatalkan sebagian dari kesepakatan tarif yang ia buat dengan para pemimpin UE di lapangan golf miliknya di Skotlandia musim panas lalu, mengkritik Brussels karena terlalu lama meratifikasi kesepakatan tersebut. Mengejutkan Brussels pada akhir hari libur bank May Day pada hari Jumat, ia mengumumkan akan menaikkan tarif pada mobil dan truk yang diimpor ke AS dari UE dari 15% menjadi 25% mulai minggu depan. Lanjutkan membaca...

Kritikus menilai para wanita menghadapi perlakuan tidak setara, namun pihak lain menyebut pengetatan kontrol mencerminkan kekhawatiran medis yang sah. Seorang psikolog yang sempat ditolak untuk mendapatkan sterilisasi di NHS telah berhasil menggugat keputusan tersebut setelah membawa kasusnya ke ombudsman kesehatan, memicu pertanyaan mengenai seberapa mudah prosedur tersebut seharusnya diakses. Leah Spasova menghabiskan waktu bertahun-tahun mengupayakan operasi pencegahan kehamilan dengan cara menyumbat fallopian tubes. Banyak pihak berargumen bahwa hambatan yang dihadapi kaum wanita, mulai dari penolakan pendanaan hingga kriteria kelayakan yang lebih ketat, setara dengan perlakuan tidak adil dibandingkan pria yang mencari vasectomies, serta membatasi otonomi tubuh. Continue reading...

Penilaian Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre menyatakan serangan teror ‘sangat mungkin’ terjadi Tingkat ancaman terorisme Inggris telah dinaikkan menjadi “severe” oleh Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre setelah aksi penikaman di Golders Green, yang berarti serangan teror dianggap “sangat mungkin” terjadi. Menteri Dalam Negeri, Shabana Mahmood, menggambarkan serangan hari Rabu tersebut sebagai tindakan terorisme yang keji. “Hari ini, tingkat ancaman nasional telah meningkat menjadi ‘severe’, yang berarti serangan teroris dianggap sangat mungkin terjadi,” katanya. Lanjutkan membaca...

Laporan menyerukan tindakan tegas untuk memerangi 'beban yang meningkat dan tidak berkelanjutan' dari masalah terkait hati di Eropa

Pemimpin Reform memublikasikan hal ini setelah didekati oleh Guardian, namun apakah klaimnya bahwa uang tersebut digunakan untuk keamanannya dapat dibuktikan? • Nigel Farage menerima £5 juta yang tidak diungkapkan dari miliarder kripto pada tahun 2024 • Nigel Farage mengakui bahwa ia menerima hadiah pribadi sebesar £5 juta dari mega-donor Reform UK, Christopher Harborne, sesaat sebelum pemilihan umum tahun 2024. • Ia tidak mengungkapkan hadiah tersebut pada saat itu, dan tidak menyebutkannya selama satu tahun terakhir. Hal ini baru terungkap pada Rabu pagi, ketika Daily Telegraph menerbitkan berita di mana Farage mengakui menerima uang dari Harborne – dengan alasan bahwa uang tersebut adalah untuk keamanan pribadinya. Baca selengkapnya...

• Pemimpin tersebut untuk pertama kalinya menyebutkan upaya ekstrem yang dilakukan pasukan agar tidak jatuh ke tangan musuh saat berperang untuk Rusia • Kim Jong-un melontarkan pujian kepada tentara Korea Utara yang meledakkan diri dengan granat guna menghindari penangkapan saat melawan pasukan Ukraina di wilayah Kursk barat Rusia, yang mengonfirmasi keberadaan kebijakan medan perang yang ekstrem tersebut. • Bukti yang terus bertambah, termasuk dari laporan intelijen dan kesaksian para pembelot, menunjukkan bahwa tentara Korea Utara secara eksplisit diperintahkan untuk melakukan detonasi diri atau bentuk bunuh diri lainnya agar tidak tertangkap oleh musuh.

• Tagihan utilitas naik hingga 40% di beberapa wilayah, dan perusahaan memutus aliran listrik ke pelanggan sebanyak 13 juta kali pada tahun 2025 • CEO perusahaan utilitas terkemuka di AS menikmati kenaikan gaji sebesar 16% tahun lalu – menjadi rata-rata $12,3 juta – bahkan saat konsumen menanggung beban tagihan tinggi yang dipicu oleh inflasi yang terus berlanjut, perang Iran, dan pertumbuhan pusat data, menunjukkan tinjauan baru terhadap dokumen keuangan industri. • Tagihan utilitas naik hingga 40% di beberapa wilayah sejak 2021, dan secara nasional, perusahaan utilitas memutus aliran listrik ke pelanggan sebanyak 13 juta kali tahun lalu, menurut data federal.

Ucapan yang menandai peringatan 250 tahun kemerdekaan Amerika memberi tahu anggota parlemen AS: ‘Tindakan bangsa besar ini sangatlah penting’

Kapal selam nuklir disebutkan dalam bagian pidato raja yang menekankan hubungan pertahanan. Ikuti berita terkini hari ini Dapatkan email berita terkini, aplikasi gratis, atau podcast berita harian kami Selamat pagi dan selamat datang di blog berita live kami. Saya Martin Farrer dengan berita utama semalam dan kemudian Nick Visser dengan aksi utamanya. Data harga konsumen yang keluar hari ini diperkirakan akan menunjukkan guncangan tajam yang diberikan oleh perang AS-Iran terhadap ekonomi kita (dan dompet kita). Baca selengkapnya...

Motorists are forced to queue up to six hours for fuel or pay more on the black market, while farmers lack fuel to operate machinery and harvest crops.

• Blocks, an AI startup, secured $20 million in Series A funding led by Entrée Capital to develop autonomous digital workforces. • The funding will support deployment of AI agents capable of handling complex tasks independently. • This investment highlights growing VC interest in agentic AI technologies amid enterprise automation demands.

Sarah Mullally hails Leo for addressing the ‘many injustices in our world’ after private meeting with pope in RomeThe archbishop of Canterbury praised Pope Leo on Monday for speaking “powerfully about the many injustices” in the world, in an apparent reference to the pontiff becoming more outspoken in recent weeks, particularly in his criticism of the US-Israeli war on Iran.Sarah Mullally, who in March became the first woman to lead the Anglican church, arrived in Rome on Saturday for a visit aimed at reinforcing relations with the Vatican. Mullally had a private meeting with Leo, the first US-born leader of the Catholic church, at the Apostolic Palace, the pope’s official residence. Continue reading...

Musician Chris Martin, tennis star Iga Świątek and footballer Robert Lewandowski join Piotr Garkowski in epic fundraiserA Polish social media influencer has raised more than £50m after a nine-day, non-stop online stream during which he was joined by a parade of celebrity guests to help a charity supporting children battling cancer.Streaming from a studio flat in right-bank Warsaw, social media influencer Piotr Garkowski, 23, nicknamed Łatwogang, listened to a charity song dedicated to children battling cancer on loop for nine days straight, filling time with entertaining dares and celebrity appearances. Continue reading...

Secret Service director says security succeeded in stopping shooter before he could do further harm but others disagreeThe shooting in the White House correspondents’ gala has prompted questions over security with some asking how a shooter was able to get close to where Donald Trump and many other senior administration officials were gathered and many others praising the actions of law enforcement that swiftly stopped the attack.As details about the shooting at the Washington Hilton continued to surface, the alleged shooter Cole Tomas Allen, 31, mocked an “insane” lack of security at the Washington dinner in a manifesto reportedly send to his family 10 minutes before his assault started. Continue reading...

• Elon Musk's xAI closed a $6 billion Series C on April 25, 2026, backed by Sequoia and a16z, to build a 100,000-GPU supercluster in Memphis, Tennessee. • Funding supports Grok-3 development, targeting 5x faster inference than GPT-5, with first phase online by December 2026. • Initiative aims to repatriate AI compute to US soil, creating 1,200 high-tech jobs amid national security concerns over overseas data centers.

• AcuityMD announced $80 million in new funding to advance its platform with sophisticated AI features for medical device insights. • The investment accelerates AI integration to improve market intelligence for US healthcare and medtech firms. • This capital infusion positions AcuityMD to dominate AI-powered analytics in the growing $500B+ medical device sector.

Hope Not Hate campaign identifies election hopefuls calling for a ‘white Britain’ and complaining of ‘kowtowing to the black community’A Reform UK candidate who called for a “white Britain” and said Keir Starmer should be shot is among a number of contenders fuelling doubts about the party’s claim to have tightened up its vetting.The past comments of Linda McFarlane and other political hopefuls have been unearthed ahead of the 7 May elections, including one who complained about “constant kowtowing to the black community” and others who endorsed the far-right activist Tommy Robinson. Continue reading...

Ajay Haridasse needed assistance at 26-mile markAaron Beggs and Robson De Oliveira came to aidA pair of Boston Marathon runners who teamed up to help a fellow athlete across the race’s finish line have been praised for their “beautiful moment” of sportsmanship.Ajay Haridasse, a 21-year-old university student from Wakefield, Massachusetts, found himself stumbling after passing the 26-mile mark in Monday’s race. After falling for a fourth time, he was “getting ready to crawl” to the finish line, Haridasse told the Boston Herald. Continue reading...

Sacked Foreign Office chief tells MPs he was briefed that UKSV considered Mandelson ‘a borderline case’UK politics live – latest updatesAn account of Peter Mandelson’s vetting process given by the former top civil servant Sir Olly Robbins has raised new questions about whether Robbins was misled about the findings of the agency responsible for vetting.Robbins, who was sacked from his role of permanent secretary at the Foreign Office last week after revelations in the Guardian, gave testimony about the process to a select committee. Continue reading...

• Silicon Valley-based Resolve AI secured $40M in Series A extension funding, boosting its valuation to $1.5B to establish Resolve AI Labs focused on AI models optimized for production environments. • The funding supports development of reliable AI systems tailored for enterprise-scale deployment in US tech sectors. • This round highlights investor confidence in Resolve AI's infrastructure for bridging research-to-production AI gaps amid booming demand.

Bets placed on Middle East conflict has led to US firm experiencing big increase in volumePolymarket, the online prediction platform that hosts bets on events such as the Iran war, is in talks to raise $400m (£296m) at a valuation of up to $15bn.The company has gained notoriety in recent months over wagers placed on the Middle East conflict, including on the timing of US-Israel strikes against Iran, and on a US-Iran ceasefire, some of which appeared to bear signs of insider trading. Continue reading...

Islamabad has seized chance to act as mediator in Iran war and hopes to reap diplomatic and economic benefitsMiddle East crisis – live updatesAs Pakistan works frantically to narrow differences between Iran and the US in its newfound role as global peacemaker, it is also seeking to recast its diplomatic standing and attract business.Pakistani officials, mediating between an unpredictable US president and hardliners in Tehran, were on Monday trying to coax both sides to put the conditions in place for a second round of talks in Islamabad this week, including easing the standoff in the strait of Hormuz. Pakistan was optimistic that the meeting would happen, viewing objections voiced by the Iranian side and Donald Trump’s threats as posturing for domestic audiences. Continue reading...

• Elon Musk's xAI announced a $6 billion Series C funding round on April 19, 2026, led by Sequoia Capital, valuing the startup at $24 billion post-money. • Funds will expand the Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, to 300,000 Nvidia GPUs for Grok AI training. • Investment accelerates US AI infrastructure race, countering China's advances and supporting domestic chip production.

• Expo, developer of the React Native framework for cross-platform apps, secured $45 million in Series B funding led by Georgian. • The investment supports cloud services and open-source tools used by developers building mobile applications. • This funding bolsters Expo's position in the competitive cross-platform development market amid rising demand for efficient app building.

• Sequoia Capital announced a $7 billion expansion fund under new leadership specifically targeting late-stage AI startups across the U.S. and Europe. • The fund aims to accelerate growth for mature AI companies navigating scaling challenges in competitive markets. • This massive capital injection underscores surging investor confidence in AI's long-term potential amid rapid technological advancements.

• Factory, a three-year-old startup, raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures, achieving a $1.5 billion valuation on April 17, 2026. • The funding targets AI coding tools that automate software development for enterprises, freeing developers for complex tasks. • This round reflects booming investor interest in AI automation amid US tech sector's push for efficiency.

• InsightFinder secured $15 million in Series B funding led by Yu Galaxy, bringing total funding to $35 million, expanding its AI-powered IT reliability platform. • The company is adding autonomous incident response capabilities to compete with established players like Datadog in the enterprise reliability market. • The funding positions InsightFinder to address growing enterprise demand for AI-driven solutions to detect and resolve infrastructure failures automatically.

• Business banking startup Slash Financial announced $100 million in Series C funding at a $1.4 billion valuation, led by Ribbit Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Goodwater Capital. • The funds will accelerate development of its AI-driven back office for small and midsized online businesses. • Founded in 2020, Slash provides an autonomous finance platform, positioning it as a key player in fintech automation.