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Insmed wins first EU approval for NCFB treatment
Oral small molecule treatment Brinsupri (brensocatib) could become a new standard of care for patients with the progressive lung disease. The European Commission (EC) has approved Insmed’s Brinsupri (brensocatib 25mg tablets), making it the first licensed treatment for non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis (NCFB) in the EU. The European Commission’s approval [offers] a much-needed treatment that can read more
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Dutch online grocery store Picnic raises €430M
Dutch online grocery store Picnichas raised€430 million from existing investors and is ploughing much of the funding to grow its operations inGermany. Picnic’s existing investors includeGerman supermarket giant Edeka,TheBilland Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, Dutch investment firmHoyberg and Amsterdam-headquartered investment firm NPM Capital. As well as bolstering its presence in Germany, where Picnic says it’s the read more
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EIT Urban Mobility reports strong results and new €44M Fund
EIT Urban Mobility, an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union, announced results demonstrating the measurable impact of its investment approach and and commits €44M for future investments Since 2020, EIT Urban Mobility has built a portfolio of over 140 companies across Europe, creating systemic transformation read more
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UK government announces billions of pounds of AI investment including Sovereign AI Unit
The UK government has unveiled a package of measures putting AI at the centre of its growth plans, pledging the creation of thousands of jobs and government support for key domesticAI tech. The measures, featuring billions of pounds of public and private investment, come ahead of the Autumn Budget and warnings from company bosses that read more
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MuchBetter.ai banks €4M to boost workforce performance through AI-based conversations
Today, French startup MuchBetter.ai announced a €4 million funding round led by Educapital, an impact fund specialising in education and the “future of work,” with support fromAstorya VC and Antler. The company has developed an AI-powered training platform for sales teams and customer-facing field teams. It enables rapid and independent professional development through ultra-realistic, educational, read more
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AI agents “lost” when patients ask medical questions, says healthtech boss
AI agentsare “lost” when patients ask medical questions, and it will take time to roll agents out effectively in a clinical setting, according to the founders of two healthtech firms. Ali Parsa, who previously ran the failed Babylon Health and Circle Health and is now heading upQuadrivia, which has built an AI agent for clinicians, read more
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Sencillo raises £350K+ to help UK families navigate rising education costs
Education financing platform Sencillo has raised over £350,000 in Pre-seed Funding. The rising costs of education mean UK families are now spending increasingly larger amounts on their children’s education each year, averaging between £3,600 and £15,000 per annum for early years childcare, £19,000 to £50,000 for independent schooling, and over £22,700 a year for university, read more
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When anything is possible: what creatives should make in the age of AI
Earlier this year, I attended Upscale Conf in San Francisco, a conference hosted by Spanish generative AI creative suite Freepik. One of the topics I was most interested in was how creatives – designers, illustrators, film makers, etc. think about and use AI, so I was excited to attend a workshop titled “When anything is read more
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NexDash raises €5M and launches AI-powered, fully electric road freight carrier
Berlin-based NexDashhas secured €5 million in seed funding to build Neo-Carrier for electric trucks, only three months after its founding. The round included participation from Extantia Capital and Clean Energy Ventures. Heavy-duty trucks account for around 35 per cent of transport-related CO₂ emissions, while over 90 per cent of logistics operators rely on small, ageing read more
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The dark truth behind supermarket tuna
The FT connected abuses in some of these fleets to UK supermarket shelves using fishery details provided by retailers, data from the Ocean Disclosure Project — where companies voluntarily publish seafood sources — research into products in supermarkets, publicly available paperwork and interviews with workers. One of the Chinese longline fisheries where workers reported abuses read more
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From Oura To Whoop, We Tested The Best Sleep Trackers Of 2025
From a fitness tracker angle, the Whoop MG is primed for athletes wanting to maximize their activity and recovery — that’s why Mashable’s Christianna Silva wore it to train for the NYC Marathon. But purely based on sleep, it’s the best sleep tracker. It takes on the classic wristband design among fitness trackers, but unlike read more
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Lost in translation: ICU experts call for universal severity score
An international score provides a common language for describing illness severity in the context of international collaboration Alexander Tracy, Jorge Ibrain Figueira Salluh, Eirik Alnes Buanes et al. The article highlights that scores like SAPS III and APACHE IV, which are widely used in wealthy countries, may perform poorly in locations with less access to read more
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Robotic rehabilitation solutions presented at MEDICA 2025
Fourier Rehab also introduced three new developments: InfinityNet: A cloud-connected platform designed to link devices and data within the RehabHub system. DualMotus: A multi-limb robotic rehabilitation system for patients recovering from stroke, neurological injuries, or orthopedic conditions. ExoMotus M4 + VR: A lower-limb exoskeleton offering programmable gait training, with optional VR integration. “MEDICA continues to read more
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Generative AI to spot blood cell abnormalities missed by doctors
The true value of healthcare AI lies not in approximating human expertise at lower cost, but in enabling greater diagnostic, prognostic, and prescriptive power than either experts or simple statistical models can achieve Parashkev Nachev In tests, CytoDiffusion could detect abnormal cells linked to leukaemia with far greater sensitivity than existing systems. It also matched read more
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Integrated imaging solutions on display at RSNA 2025
The company will demonstrate technologies for diagnostic and therapeutic imaging applications, including developments in Ultra-High Resolution and Photon Counting CT (UHR & PCCT), components for MRI-guided breast biopsies, and onboard imaging systems for radiation therapy. Dunlee is developing Ultra-High Resolution CT (UHR-CT) and Photon Counting CT (PCCT) systems that achieve remarkable spatial resolution using detectors read more
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10 Ways To Avoid Burnout as a Digital Marketer – Goats On The Road
Jobs in digital marketing can be straining, and unfortunately there’s no magic wand to make them less demanding. You’ve probably been told to take more breaks, go for some walks, or spend less time on social media. Maybe you’ve even wondered whether a mental health app might help. Whatever it looks like for you, your read more
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This Asian Metropolis Is the Best City in the World for Shopping, Our Readers Say
The global shopping map has been redrawn, and your flight plan may be outdated. For years, Paris was the reflex splurge and Tokyo the “culture trip with a little shopping on the side.” The most committed shoppers now build routes around Seoul’s dermatology corridors and Singapore’s air-conditioned superblocks, where retail, dining, and leisure sit under read more
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New Zealand is Launching a New Four-Year Golden Visa
Travelers from around the world have long been drawn to New Zealand’s diverse wildlife and rich culture. If you’re one of the many who’ve fallen in love with the island country, and entertained the idea of moving there, things just got easier thanks to a new golden visa—so long as you have spare time and read more
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23 Dublin Restaurants to Visit in 2026
It’s an exciting time to be a food-loving visitor to Dublin. In a perfect storm of culinary magic, talented young chefs who have honed their talents in hotspots such as Denmark, New York, and London are now firing up the kitchens in the city’s most exciting restaurants. A new European-style bistro that could have been read more
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SOC Prime secures new investment to accelerate AI-driven threat detection
Ukrainian cybersecurity startup SOC Prime today announced the closing of its next investment round to drive the company’s next wave of growth and innovation to help customers automate critical threat detections with AI. SOC Prime has built and operates the world’s largest AI-Native Detection Intelligence Platform for SOC teams. Trusted by over 11,000 organisations, the read more
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