Spain’s largest life sciences VC is moving upstream with InceptionBio, its first fund dedicated to the riskiest stage of biotech: company creation from university and research centre spinouts. CDTI is an anchor LP. The target is at least three new c…
Lees meerThe Dutch biotech’s SureTACs platform targets membrane proteins that have long eluded conventional drug discovery by engineering them out of existence rather than blocking them. Biovance Capital joins as new co-lead alongside Kurma Partners in a fin…
Lees meerOpenAI has shelved its plans to add an erotic “adult mode” to ChatGPT indefinitely, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, capping a five-month saga in which the feature was announced with confidence, delayed twice, and ultimately abandoned afte…
Lees meerShield AI, the San Diego defence technology company behind the autonomous pilot system Hivemind, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $2 billion in combined funding at a $12.7 billion valuation. The company will use part of the proceeds to acqu…
Lees meerIf you have ever spent weeks preparing for a compliance audit, manually collecting evidence across spreadsheets, chasing colleagues for policy sign-offs, and wondering whether your controls actually hold up under scrutiny, you already know the probl…
Lees meerThe London-based personalised supplement startup, which uses blood biomarker data to formulate individual supplement regimens, will be integrated into Herbalife’s 95-market network. The $55M guaranteed price is paid over five years; up to $95M in ad…
Lees meerOn-road testing in Croatia’s capital is already underway using Pony.ai’s Gen-7 system on the Arcfox Alpha T5, a Chinese-manufactured robotaxi. Uber intends to invest in Verne. The three companies plan to scale to thousands of vehicles across Europe,…
Lees meerSony Honda Mobility has discontinued both its AFEELA 1 sedan and an unnamed follow-up SUV, less than a year after opening a dedicated showroom in California. Honda’s sweeping EV retreat left the joint venture without the technical foundations it nee…
Lees meerThe Amsterdam startup, founded in 2022, is building a single AI platform that handles customer discovery, direct ordering, and retention for independent food and beverage operators. seed + speed Ventures led the round; PeakBridge returned alongside …
Lees meerThe Spanish propulsion startup, based at Castellón Airport, is the first Spanish space company selected for the European Innovation Council Accelerator. Its DARK system became the first hydrogen peroxide propulsion system flown in orbit in Europe, l…
Lees meerGoogle published a research blog post on Tuesday about a new compression algorithm for AI models. Within hours, memory stocks were falling. Micron dropped 3 per cent, Western Digital lost 4.7 per cent, and SanDisk fell 5.7 per cent, as investors rec…
Lees meerA startup called Friending has launched a social platform built around a premise that sounds almost quaint in 2026: helping people make friends by meeting in person. The app, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, connects users by shared interests and g…
Lees meerPepper, a New York-based technology platform for independent food distributors, has acquired Alima, a Y Combinator-backed startup that built ordering and procurement software for small food distributors in Latin America. The deal, announced on Tuesd…
Lees meerGranola, the London-based AI meeting app that records conversations without dropping a bot into the call, has raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Danny Rimer at Index Ventures, with participation from Mamoon Hamid at Kleiner Perkins. The …
Lees meerMeta began cutting hundreds of jobs on Wednesday across Reality Labs, Facebook, recruiting, sales, and global operations, according to people familiar with the matter and LinkedIn posts from affected employees. The layoffs are the latest in a rollin…
Lees meerLast September, when OpenAI quietly released the Sora 2 app to the public, the discourse around it was not quiet at all. Commentators who had spent months watching the model’s preview clips, the golden retriever bounding through autumn leaves, the T…
Lees meerThe Swiss startup, spun out of EPFL’s student rocketry programme that built Europe’s first student-made reusable rocket, has raised one of the largest seed rounds ever in European space. Visionaries Club and Creandum led; Lombard Odier, Atlantic Lab…
Lees meerThe London startup, founded by the team behind Darwin, acquired by Mercer in 2016, has built an AI platform that ingests fragmented global benefits data from PDFs, insurance contracts, and vendor portals into a single intelligence layer. Notion Capi…
Lees meerThe AIM-listed language technology company says its new model, the largest dedicated translation model in production, ranked first in 31 of 32 languages in internal benchmarking against DeepL and Gemini. The model is natively integrated into the Tra…
Lees meerThe Barcelona Supercomputing Center spin-off, founded eighteen months ago, uses AI to generate realistic test scenarios that expose failures, hallucinations, bias, and security risks before enterprise AI agents go live. 42CAP led the round; Mozilla …
Lees meerThe BT subsidiary, operator of the UK’s largest broadband network and the country’s second-largest commercial fleet, has built a digital twin of the UK’s transport and broadband infrastructure on Vertex AI, and is using Gemini Enterprise to cut engi…
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