Highland Europe has closed a €1.1bn sixth fund to back European growth-stage tech, after a year of exits including the ~$3bn Nexthink sale, and promoted two partners.

Rep. Frank Pallone is demanding emissions data and a site visit over the gas turbines powering xAI’s Colossus supercomputers near mostly Black communities.

Eliyan raised a $145m Series C at a $1bn valuation to fix the data bottleneck between AI chips, adding Cisco and Lumentum for its optical push.

OpenAI president Greg Brockman confirmed the company is building “a family of devices” coming “soon,” and dismissed Apple’s trade-secret lawsuit.

Mark Zuckerberg predicted billions will have a personal AI agent within five years, even as Meta’s free cash flow fell 91% and its stock dropped 10%.