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Posters with purpose: the analog protest calling out the censorship of women’s health
In response to widespread suppression of women’s health vocabulary, health creative studio Ouch! launches the GOOD WORDS campaign: a series of posters highlighting how essential terms such as “vulva,” “uterus,” and “period” are censored by digital platforms, forcing women to navigate a growing “euphemism economy” of coded language just to find information online. The campaign read more
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AZ furthers US manufacturing commitment with $2bn investment
The move is part of biopharma’s $50 billion pledge to US medicines manufacturing and R&D. Credit: Roland Magnusson / Shutterstock.com AstraZeneca is channeling $2 billion into its manufacturing capabilities in Maryland, US, representing its fourth major investment in the country so far this year. This commitment is part of the company’s pledge announced in July, read more
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Recruiting platform Helio AI secures $1M Seed to power faster, fairer frontline hiring
Recruitment tech startup Helio AI has secured a $1 million Seed round led by SABAH.fund, joined by DOMiNO Ventures, Axiom, Tetrad VC,and Angel investor Bas Godska. The US-based, Georgian-founded team has developed an AI-powered recruiting platform for high-volume and frontline hiring. It combines an intelligent recruiting agent, able to chat, think, and act in local read more
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Procure AI nets $13M to scale autonomous AI for procurement
London-based Procure AI, a company pioneering AI-native procurement automation for procurement and supply chain management, has raised $13 million in seed funding. The round was led by Headline, with participation from C4 Ventures, Futury Capital and notable angel investors from across the procurement industry. Procurement teams are under pressure to do more with fewer resources. read more
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Onton raises $7.5M to expand its AI-powered shopping site beyond furniture | TechCrunch
Major tech companies aren’t just using AI to help you generate or summarize content — they also want you to use it for shopping. OpenAI, Google, and Amazon have heavily invested in AI assistants that research new product categories for you and suggest the right ones to buy. Startups like Perplexity, Daydream, and Cherry have read more
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Chiesi gains pace on climate target with new CMI data
Findings presented at the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Winter Meeting back biopharma’s Net Zero commitment. As the UK prepares for regulatory submissions for carbon minimal pMDIs in the coming months, Chiesi has confirmed the therapeutic equivalence of its advanced carbon minimal inhaler (CMI). Two clinical studies compared beclometasone dipropionate/formoterol fumarate product formulated with hydrofluoroalkane (HFA) read more
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Alzheimer’s Phase III miss signals GLP-1 combo therapy potential
Novo Nordisk is evaluating oral GLP-1 drug Rybelsus as a potential treatment in early symptomatic Alzheimer’s. Rybelsus (oral semaglutide) did not demonstrate superiority of semaglutide versus placebo in delaying early Alzheimer’s disease progression, according to new phase III topline results from Novo Nordisk. [The topline results] show a fundamental shift in how we approach the read more
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At least four dead as fire engulfs Hong Kong tower blocks
At least four people have been killed in a huge fire that has engulfed multiple high-rise buildings in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district. At least three more are injured, two of whom are in a critical condition, a government statement said. According to a former district councillor, 13 people are also still trapped in the read more
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Brazil: Bolsonaro ordered to start serving 27-year prison sentence for coup plot
Watch: Police share footage of prison cell for Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered that right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro begin serving his prison sentence of 27 years and three months for plotting a coup after he lost the last election. Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday ruled that the case had read more
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ElevenLabs and Revolut backer launches $15M solo GP fund
An angel investor in UK AI unicorn ElevenLabs and Revolut has launcheda $15m solo GP fund to back pre-seed and seedstage founders building startups across AI, robotics, and defence. Carles Reina has launchedBaobab Ventures,an “oversubscribed”fund backed by institutional LPs Cendana Capital, Isomer Capital, RSJ Investments,Emergence Ventures, and Cyber Fund. Partners from Concept Ventures, Credo Ventures, read more
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20 Great Ways to Spend Christmas in New York City
Christmas in New York City is one of the best times to be here. Regardless of whether or not you celebrate or how you do so, there’s a cheer in the cooling air that’s accessible to everyone on the premises. Locals are happier, and more welcoming of tourists, despite the cold. The lights are brighter read more
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The Detroit Museum of Arts Confronts Art History While Shaping Its Future
“We have not yet begun to utilize the museum as an instrument of cultural education.” Those words, from Alain Locke’s 1925 essay “The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts,” carry visitors through a set of newly installed permanent collection galleries at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). When he penned that text a century ago, Locke, read more
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Boeing's Next Starliner Flight Will Only Be Allowed to Carry Cargo
The US space agency ended months of speculation about the next flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, confirming that the vehicle will carry only cargo to the International Space Station. NASA and Boeing are now targeting no earlier than April 2026 to fly the uncrewed Starliner-1 mission, the space agency said. Launching by next April will read more
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The looming election Trump cant afford to lose
Anthony ZurcherNorth America correspondent, Tennessee Watch: “We’re in a pivotal place” – Tennessee voters on Trump’s performance “They’re coming to Tennessee to try to take a congressional seat.” Tennessee Republican Party Chair Scott Golden offered this warning to party faithful last week at the Cumberland County Lincoln Day Dinner in the tiny town of Crab read more
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Nithari: Indian parents ask who killed their children as Surinder Koli freed in house of horrors murders
Geeta PandeyNoida, Uttar Pradesh Getty Images Parents hold up photographs of the missing children of Nithari Nearly 20 years after police found the bodies of 19 women and children near a bungalow dubbed India’s “house of horrors”, the case is back in the spotlight – because Surinder Koli, the last of the two men convicted, read more
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South East Asia floods: Scores killed and thousands evacuated from record rainfall
Watch: People cling to floating debris during catastrophic floods in Thailand Parts of Thailand are battling record floods, which have killed at least 33 people and prompted authorities to deploy military ships and helicopters to support relief efforts. The deluge has hit 10 provinces across the country’s south over the past week, with the city read more
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Empowering women to shape the future of food: inside EIT Food’s EWA programme
Women across Europe are building innovative solutions in agrifood — yet many still lack access to the support, visibility and networks needed to scale. The EWA — Empowering Women in Agrifood program from EIT Food was designed to change that. It is open to women from selected European and neighbouring countries (in 2025, 13 countries read more
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Bsure raises $2.1M to fix one of modern IT’s most overlooked problems
Norwegian startup Bsure has secured a $2.1 million seed round to help companies gain visibility into blind spots within their Microsoft environments. The round was led by Scale Capital, with participation from existing US investors. Most companies rely on identities such as people, apps and services that need access to do their work. The challenge read more
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Noahs raises €1.9M to power its expansion to 600 digitised food locations by 2026
Noahs, a Copenhagen-based food-tech company that transforms the service stations, convenience stores (c-stores), supermarkets, and travel hubs into modern food destinations, has raised €1.9 million in new funding at a €6.5 million pre-money valuation. Founded in 2020, Noahs has redefined how food integrates into retail — building a platform that enables global retailers to enter read more
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Kovant closes €1.5M to advance agentic AI for enterprise operations
Stockholm-based Kovant, an autonomous enterprise platform that enables businesses to create, run and manage entire operations and departments of AI agents, has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Stockholm-based VC firm J12 Ventures, with participation from Ampli, Green Ventures and a group of angel investors ranging from tech veterans to read more
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