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First Concepts raises $1M to develop AI-native OS for creative work
London-based startup First Concepts, an AI-powered workspace for early-stage creative work, has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding less than nine months after its founding. The round was led by Arāya Ventures alongside Antler. Additional participants included industry leaders such as Jez Jowett (former Managing Partner at Havas), Nathan McDonald (founder of We Are Social), read more
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Tracebit raises $20M Series A to expand cloud-native deception tech
Tracebit, a cloud-native cybersecurity company focused on threat detection, has raised a $20 million Series A round led by FirstMark, with participation from Accel. MMC Ventures, Tapestry VC, and CCL also joined the round. The funding follows the company’s $5 million seed round in 2024, led by Accel, bringing Tracebit’s total funding to $25 million. read more
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Ugandans Using Fake Documents to Apply for US Visas Risk Ban As Embassy, Police Tighten Noose
The US Embassy in Uganda and Police have warned Ugandans against using forged document to apply for US visas or else they risk being blacklisted. Addressing journalists at the Uganda Media Centre in Kampala, the regional security officer at the US Embassy in Uganda, James Bloomer said since July last year, at least 43 Ugandans read more
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Choice secures $7.1M Series A to expand its restaurant operating system across Europe
Choice, a Prague-founded all-in-one SaaS and QR ordering platform for restaurants, has raised $7.1 million in Series A funding. To date, the company has raised a total of $11.6 million. Founded five years ago, Choice began as a platform enabling restaurants to communicate with customers online. Since then, it has evolved into a comprehensive operating read more
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COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old programming language and needed to be updated to handle the hundreds of thousands of claims. Trouble was, few of the state’s employees knew how to read more
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Italian startup Alomana raises €4M for its AI operating layer for enterprise workflows
Italian startup Alomana has raised €4 million to accelerate the development of Alo, the AI operating layer for enterprise. Enterprises need more than AI that can answer when prompted; they need AI that can run and execute their workflows. Legacy systems were not built for AI. Organisations spend months testing and stitching together tools, integrations, read more
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WhiteBridge AI raises $3M to redefine standards in people search and research
WhiteBridge AI, a team developing an AI-powered people search and research engine, has raised a $3M seed round. The round was led by FIRSTPICK VC, with participation from First Degree, NGL.VC, Scalewolf.VC, BADideas.fund, Nectolabs, Plug and Play, and several angel investors. Founded in 2024 by Tomas Martūnas, Irmantas Motiejūnas, Justinas Barauskas, and Paulius Taraškevičius, WhiteBridge read more
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A Distinctly Nordic Sensibility Ignites a Quiet Craze
“I’ve been living … a great deal in my memories lately,” the Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck wrote in 1937. Hers was a nostalgia perhaps born from relief. That year, the success of Schjerfbeck’s second solo exhibition had won her a loyal gallerist and, at last, a steady income. At the age of 75, she was read more
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The Sony WF-1000XM6 Earbuds Offer Insane Levels of Silence
The small black buds (they also come in a silvery tan) have two microphones visible on the outer shell, simple Sony logos on the side, and a pair of memory-foam eartips in four sizes. A word to the wise on fit: Once you figure out which size of ear tips you want (I stuck with read more
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Logitech Finally Made a Keyboard to Pair With Its Top Mouse
Options, of course, also have built-in integration for AI assistants like ChatGPT, with a dedicated “Prompt Builder” UI that can be summoned with the press of a button. Thankfully, unlike some keyboards, AI functionality can easily be disabled, with the key defaulting to Page Down and being remappable to anything else. Unlike other new keyboards, read more
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In Blob We Trust: The Art of KRK Ryden – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Even KRK Ryden’s bathroom walls are hand painted in comic book panels. Elsewhere, a collection of convenience store-boughtnovelty lighters are positioned like circling sharks has invaded a brightly colored coffee table. The kitchen refrigerator, long removed from the premises to make room for the wall of mousetraps; each room, nay, each exposed surface or wall read more
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Apple's First Foldable Displays Nearing Mass Production
Advanced display panels destined for Apple’s first foldable iPhone are reportedly nearing mass production. The Weibo leaker known as “Instant Digital” today said that Samsung Display is set to begin mass production of OLED panels for the first foldable iPhone in May 2026. Meanwhile, the user “Fixed Focus Digital” claims that the foldable iPhone’s screen read more
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Before quantum computing arrives, this startup wants enterprises already running on it | TechCrunch
Eighteen months after selling his startup to chipmaker AMD for $665 million, Finnish entrepreneur Peter Sarlin has left his role as CEO of the unit now known as AMD Silo AI. He is now chairman at two new ventures: physical AI lab NestAI, and Qutwo, an AI startup aimed at helping companies prepare for the read more
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In 'Life Forms,' Janny Baek Imagines a Speculative Landscape
Joy Machine is pleased to presentLife Forms, a solo exhibition by Janny Baek, on view from March 20 to May 9, 2026. How do we conceive of change? With fear, excitement, or uncertainty? As Janny Baek builds sculptural ceramics of speculative beings and imagined landscapes, she grapples with these questions. The work follows its own read more
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iPhone 17 Pro is Now Part of MLB History
Back in September, the Apple TV streaming service’s broadcast of the pivotal Boston Red Sox vs. Detroit Tigers game at Fenway Park incorporated live footage captured with the iPhone 17 Pro, and now the device has been enshrined in MLB history. Apple this week announced that the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum has read more
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Peacock expands into AI-driven video, mobile-first live sports, and gaming | TechCrunch
Peacock is making a clear bet on two things: AI and mobile-first entertainment. Based on what the streamer previewed at a press event yesterday, Peacock’s mobile app is about to look a whole lot more like a mix of TikTok, a casual gaming hub, and a streaming service. From an AI-powered “Bravoverse” vertical video experience read more
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EU–INC campaign warns: Without a pan-European standard, founders will keep choosing Delaware
Europe’s startup community is urging the European Commission to ensure that its upcoming proposal for a new pan-European company framework delivers on its promise of a true “28th regime”. Today, EU–INC, Allied for Startups, and the European Startup Network released a joint statement on behalf of the European startup ecosystem calling for a genuine European read more
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A Visit to Tomás Saraceno's Berlin Studio Delves into a Deeply Empathetic Practice
What is a web to the spider? A home, a tool, simply something they cling to? Tomás Saraceno presents these questions in a new segment from Art21, in which filmmakers visit his Berlin studio and examine the machinations of his collaborative practice, extending from a team of people to the tiny critters beneath our feet. read more
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Smiljan Radic Wins the Pritzker Prize, ‘Men Retire But Women Get Fired From Museum Leadership’ Says Anne Pasternak: Morning Links for March 13, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines HOUSE OF CARDS. The Chilean architect Smiljan Radic has won the famed Pritzker Prize, the industry’s top accolade, which was delayedbecause ofTom Pritzker’s ties toJeffrey Epstein, according tothe New York Times. In an email, Radic said his designs “all try to reach a read more
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China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies
George Zhang thought OpenClaw could make him rich, even though he didn’t really understand how the viral AI agent software worked. But he saw a video of a Chinese social media influencer demonstrating how it could be deployed to manage stock portfolios and make investment decisions autonomously. Zhang, who works in cross-border ecommerce in the read more
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