Bill Ackman Proposes Buying Universal Music Group for €56 Billion

Pershing Square’s non-binding proposal values UMG at €30.40 per share, a 78% premium to its last closing price. Ackman argues the world’s largest music label has been undervalued by structural factors, including the Bolloré Group’s 18% stake and the postponement of a US listing, that have nothing to do with its underlying business. Bill Ackman’s […]

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OpenAI Introduces Safety Fellowship

The OpenAI Safety Fellowship, announced on 6 April 2026, is a pilot programme for external researchers to conduct independent work on AI safety and alignment. It runs from September 2026 to February 2027. It was posted to social media hours after a Ronan Farrow investigation in The New Yorker reported that OpenAI had dissolved its […]

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nFuse Raises $2M to Enable Small Retailers to Order via WhatsApp

Two former Coca-Cola operators built a messaging-first ordering platform after watching B2B eCommerce initiatives repeatedly fail in fragmented trade. The platform claims 70% retailer adoption and order processing costs up to 20 times lower than traditional digital channels. Bulgarian B2B ordering startup nFuse has raised $2 million from Eleven Ventures and LAUNCHub in a round […]

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Every European Museum Should Be Concerned by the Uffizi Cyberattack

A cyberattack on one of Italy’s greatest cultural institutions reveals a sector that has mastered physical security and ignored the digital kind. On the weekend of 1 February 2026, staff at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence arrived on Monday morning to find their email accounts suspended, their internal servers unreachable, and the administrative backbone of […]

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Anthropic Secures Largest Compute Deal with Google and Broadcom as Revenue Run Rate Reaches $30 Billion

In short: Anthropic has agreed to access approximately 3.5 gigawatts of next-generation Google TPU compute capacity via Broadcom from 2027, its largest infrastructure commitment to date — while simultaneously disclosing that its revenue run rate has surpassed $30bn, more than tripling from roughly $9bn at the end of 2025. Anthropic has announced it is securing multiple […]

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