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PALANTIR DEFENDS NHS ENGLAND CONTRACT AMID BREAK CLAUSE PRESSURE

Data analytics firm Palantir is fighting to preserve its £330M seven-year NHS England contract as public and political opposition grows, with critics potentially using a 2027 break clause to exit the deal.

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Inside Palantir's fight to save its £330M, seven-year contract with NHS England, as public and political pressure grows to end the deal via a 2027 break clause (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Inside Palantir's fight to save its £330M, seven-year contract with NHS England, as public and politica…

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PitchBook: defense tech companies making drones, battlefield AI, and more have raised $12.3B across 175 deals YTD, up from a $9.95B total from 158 deals in 2025 (Financial Times)

Financial Times: PitchBook: defense tech companies making drones, battlefield AI, and more have raised $12.3B across 175…

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JD.com founder Richard Liu says robots will replace the company's 700K delivery workers "sooner or later", and it will help retrain them in robot maintenance (Financial Times)

Financial Times: JD.com founder Richard Liu says robots will replace the company's 700K delivery workers “sooner or late…

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Stark, which has a deal to supply "kamikaze" drones to the German military, raised €500M from Founders Fund, Sequoia, others; it faced criticism over Thiel ties (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Stark, which has a deal to supply “kamikaze” drones to the German military, raised €500M from Founders…

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Sources: Kalshi is in talks to raise a funding round at a ~$40B valuation that may close as soon as Q3; Kalshi raised $1B at a $22B valuation in May (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Kalshi is in talks to raise a funding round at a ~$40B valuation that may close as soon as Q3;…

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As China's working-age population shrinks, a consensus is emerging that it must deploy embodied AI robots into as many tasks as possible, as soon as possible (Financial Times)

Financial Times: As China's working-age population shrinks, a consensus is emerging that it must deploy embodied AI robo…

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How risk modelers like Fathom and Verisk are using AI and diffusion models to bypass the limits of physics-based "cat" models to predict natural disasters (Financial Times)

Financial Times: How risk modelers like Fathom and Verisk are using AI and diffusion models to bypass the limits of phys…

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