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Decart raises $300M to put a real-time world model in front of Amazon’s chips
Radical Ventures led the round, with Nvidia, Sequoia, Benchmark, Adobe, and Toyota alongside. Andrej Karpathy, Michael Eisner, and the Nintendo family are angels. Total raised is now over $450m.
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Sigma Computing raises $80 million Series E at $3 billion valuation, backed by Databricks, ServiceNow, and Workday ventures
Sigma Computing has raised $80 million in Series E funding at a $3 billion valuation, doubling its worth in a year. The round was led by Princeville Capital, with strategic investments from Databricks Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, and Workday Ventures.
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Elon Musk loses lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI as jury finds claims were filed too late
A nine-person jury in Oakland unanimously found that Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI was filed too late, ending the trial on statute of limitations grounds without reaching the merits. The advisory verdict, if adopted by the judge, clears a major legal obstacle for OpenAI’s IPO path.
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Pope Leo XIV to launch AI encyclical Magnifica Humanitas on 25 May with Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah
Pope Leo XIV will personally present his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on 25 May at the Vatican. Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah, who leads the company’s interpretability research, will speak alongside cardinals and theologians at the launch of the document on AI and human dignity.
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US and Philippines move
The US and Philippines are moving “very, very quickly” on a 4,000-acre AI and supply chain hub in New Clark City, the first physical facility under the Pax Silica initiative. Under Secretary of State Jacob Helberg visited the site with American companies, while the Philippines rejected a US request for diplomatic immunity at the facility.
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Peter Steinberger's 100 AI agents racked up $1.3 million in OpenAI tokens in 30 days building OpenClaw
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger spent $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in 30 days running 100 Codex instances on his open-source project. The bill, covered by OpenAI where Steinberger now works, represents 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests and provides the most concrete public data point on the cost of autonomous AI coding at scale.
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Google I/O 2026: Gemini Intelligence, Googlebooks, Android XR glasses, and what to expect from the keynote
Google I/O 2026 kicks off 19 May with a keynote at the Shoreline Amphitheatre. Pre-announcements include Gemini Intelligence, an agentic AI layer for Android; Googlebooks, premium Android laptops replacing Chromebooks; Android XR smart glasses with Gemini 2.5 Pro; and Android 17 features.
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Your next pipeline miss may start in AI Search
Across the B2B SaaS teams I work with, a pattern is starting to repeat. Pipeline feels less predictable. Sales cycles stretch. Conversion conversations require more explanation than before.
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Amazon launches Alexa Podcasts, an AI feature that generates full episodes from licensed news content
Amazon has launched Alexa Podcasts, a feature that uses AI to generate entire podcast episodes on demand, narrated by two virtual co-hosts. The tool, available to Alexa+ subscribers including all Prime members, is backed by licensing deals with more than 200 news organisations including AP, Reuters, and the Washington Post
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Anthropic commits $200M with Gates Foundation to deploy AI in global health, education, and agriculture
Anthropic and the Gates Foundation have committed $200 million over four years to fund AI programmes in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility. The partnership will use Claude to accelerate vaccine research for neglected diseases, build literacy tools for sub-Saharan Africa and India, and release public benchmarks and datasets. It is four times the size of OpenAI’s $50 million Gates Foundation deal announced at Davos in January.
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Trump leaves Beijing saying he and Xi talked AI guardrails. Nothing was signed.
Asked what kind of guardrails on the way out, the US president told reporters on Air Force One: ‘standard guardrails that we talk about all the time’. H200 deliveries to ten cleared Chinese buyers remain stalled.
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China leads the agentic commerce race as Alibaba, Meituan, and JD.com deploy AI shopping agents at scale
China’s tech giants are replacing the traditional e-commerce search bar with AI agents that can find, compare, and purchase products through natural conversation. Alibaba’s Qwen assistant, now integrated with Taobao’s four-billion-item catalogue, has reached 300 million monthly active users, while Alipay processed 120 million AI-agent transactions in a single week in February. Meituan, JD.com, ByteDance, and Tencent are all racing to deploy similar capabilities.
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Multiverse raises $70m at a $2.1bn valuation to push its AI-adoption pitch across Europe
The round, led by Schroders Capital, follows January’s acquisition of Berlin-based StackFuel and 50% year-on-year revenue growth. Customers include the AA, Babcock, and Capita.
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Denmark pauses grid connections as AI data centres overwhelm the cleanest power grid in Europe
Denmark’s grid operator Energinet has paused all new grid connection agreements after a 60-gigawatt queue, nearly nine times the country’s peak demand, overwhelmed the system. AI data centres are the proximate cause: hyperscalers chose Denmark for its clean grid and cool climate, and are now consuming more electricity than the infrastructure was designed to deliver. Denmark is the first Nordic country to confront the tension between building the world’s cleanest grid and attracting the world’s most power-hungry industry.
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How Flippa Is Removing the Language Barrier from Global Deal-Making
For decades, access to high-quality deal flow and sophisticated M&A infrastructure has been largely designed for well-connected investors and industry giants. Small businesses and independent founders, particularly those operating outside English-speaking markets, may often find the barriers even higher. Language, geography, and limited access to networks could mean that opportunity stops at the border.
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Kembara Closes €750M First Close to Fuel Growth of European Deep Tech Startups
Europe’s largest dedicated deep tech growth fund has taken a major step forward after closing the first tranche of its fundraising effort at €750 million.
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Can AI Replace the Humanity of Classical Music?
In October 2021, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn interpreted the first movement of Beethoven’s 10th unfinished symphony, which was completed with the use of artificial intelligence.
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How Brands Can Influence Visibility in AI-Generated Answers
The way people discover information online is quietly but fundamentally changing.
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ChatGPT to test ads in U.S. as OpenAI redefines AI monetization
OpenAI’s decision to introduce advertisements inside ChatGPT for free users and its new $8 “Go” tier is already shaping up to be one of the most consequential pivots in generative AI’s short history. It’s not a simple business tweak. It’s a reframing of where digital intent, attention, and commercial influence intersect in an age where conversations increasingly replace search bars.
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QT Sense raises €4M to advance a quantum sensing platform
QT Sense, a deep-tech biotech startup building tools to study living cells, announced it has secured €4 million in funding to accelerate its Quantum Nuova platform, a technology that lets scientists observe cellular processes in real time and reveal biochemical activity linked to disease.
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TechEx Global Returns to London with Enterprise Technology and AI Execution
London, TechEx Global 2026, one of Europe’s biggest enterprise technology conferences, brought thousands of technology professionals together at Olympia London on 4 and 5 February. The event went beyond buzzwords, focusing on how emerging technologies, especially AI, are being applied in real business contexts.
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Mews raises €255M to accelerate AI and automation in hospitality
Amsterdam-based hospitality tech platform Mews has raised €255 million (about $300 million) in a Series D funding round as it pushes deeper into automation and AI-powered workflows for hotels around the world.
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Europe’s social media age shift
It is just the beginning of 2026, and things are happening even faster than last year. Not only in technology, but also in regulations, laws, and in how we deal with all the information around us.
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OpenAI's Codex app: When your IDE gets a brain
OpenAI has given software developers a new desktop toy, and judging by the early reactions, it might feel like someone finally handed coders the Swiss Army knife they’ve been dreaming about or the kind of gadget that makes them wonder if they’re working with a robot coworker now.
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Synthesia's valuation jumps to $4B after $200M raise
London-based AI video startup Synthesia has raised $200 million in a Series E round, nearly doubling its valuation to around $4 billion and cementing its position as one of Europe’s most valuable AI companies.
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UiPath pushes deeper into financial services with WorkFusion acquisition
UiPath, the Romanian unicorn, has agreed to buy WorkFusion, bringing a specialist in AI agents for financial-crime compliance into its fold as part of a broader push into agentic automation for the banking sector. The deal closed in UiPath’s first quarter of fiscal 2027; financial terms were not disclosed.
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AI Isn’t Coming for Your Job, It’s Coming for Your Justification
AI adoption is creating a clear divide among employees. Some see AI as a tool to increase their impact, while others see it as a threat to their role. So, where does the truth lie between these two mindsets? Let’s explore.
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