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Japan's largest ride-hailing app, Go, raised ¥88.6 billion ($553 million) in its Tokyo Stock Exchange debut on Tuesday, making it the country's biggest IPO of…
Jun 22, 2026
OpenAI is stacking its bench ahead of a public listing, recruiting one of the most consequential researchers in modern AI alongside a former White House policy official — a pairing that says less about talent acquisition than about the institutional posture the company is building for its IPO roadshow.
Jun 19, 2026
Adyen processes payments for Uber, Spotify, eBay and Microsoft from a 17th-century Amsterdam canal house where engineers still share one long lunch table — and went public at €7 billion with fewer staff than a midsize hotel.
Jun 16, 2026
Cell reprogramming — the technique of returning adult cells to a more youthful state using four genetic factors identified in Nobel Prize-winning research — has become the buzziest approach in longevity science, displacing earlier obsessions with telomere lengthening and senolytic drugs.
Jun 15, 2026
Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a superconducting quantum hardware spinout from Oxford University, has closed a £260 million Series C. It is the largest private quantum computing round ever raised in Europe, according to Tech.eu.
Jun 8, 2026
A Google software engineer has been charged with insider trading for allegedly turning confidential search data into profits on Polymarket — and the case exposes a structural problem prediction markets have been quietly ignoring: every new contract listed creates a new attack surface, and every institution holding non-public information becomes a potential leak point.
Jun 2, 2026
An unofficial website calling itself UK Visa Portal has exposed the passports and selfie photos of visa applicants, and the security flaw remains unpatched, according to TechCrunch , which reported the breach on 26 May.
Jun 1, 2026