Helical closes $10M seed to turn bio foundation models into systems
France bets €500 million that quantum computing is the tech race Europe can finally win
Stanford’s annual AI report finds a widening gap between AI insiders and everyone else
The Wallenberg family rescues Europe’s flagship green steel project with a €1.4 billion financing round
Hexagon acquires Waygate Technologies from Baker Hughes for $1.45 billion
The future of work includes better water: why offices are rethinking hydration
OpenAI’s $852 billion valuation is under scrutiny from its own investors as the company pivots to enterprise
OpenAI acquires Hiro, an AI personal finance startup
Uber and Nuro begin employee testing of a Lucid Gravity robotaxi in San Francisco
Kelluu raises €15M to build a persistent aerial intelligence layer for Europe
Meta is building an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so employees can ‘talk to the boss’
The Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic – and is now telling banks to use its AI
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Round raises $6M to automate the finance workflows that still require a human to press a button
Nesto raises €11m from Expedition to scale AI workforce management for restaurant groups
UK impact VC Eka Ventures closes second fund at $107M
SiFive raises $400m Series G at $3.65bn valuation in final round before IPO
Meta commits another $21 billion to CoreWeave, bringing total AI cloud spend to $35 billion
Canva acquires Simtheory and Ortto in a twin deal aimed at turning a design tool into an end-to-end work platform
TikTok is spending €1B on a second Finnish data centre
Apple testing four frame designs for AI smart glasses ahead of 2027 launch
CoreWeave signs multi-year Anthropic deal as nine of ten top AI model providers join its platform
Amazon Leo targets mid-2026 commercial launch as enterprise beta goes live
