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Audrey AI secures $1.8M to develop AI platform for financial auditors
Audrey AI, a Dublin-based startup developing AI solutions purpose-built for financial auditors, has raised $1.8 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Sure Valley Ventures (SVV) and Delta Partners, with participation from Enterprise Ireland, Donnchadh Casey (former CEO of Calypso), Conor Jones (former Chief Business Officer at Wayflyer), and several former Big Four read more
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‘The Last Airbender’ Leaked Online. Some Fans Say Paramount Deserves the Fallout
The online leak of a full version of Avatar: Aang, The Last Airbender—a highly anticipated animated film in a multimedia fantasy franchise—has divided passionate fans while upsetting those who spent years working on the film. The leaks began on X late on Saturday night, about six months before Aang was scheduled to premiere on Paramount+. read more
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2025 Photo Awards Winner: Chanyoung Chung
Can you describe three life moments that made you who you are today? My first moment was in 2009, when a thief broke into my place, and took away everything I had built over ten years in a single day. Every film negative I had shot since high school, my cameras, hard drives, and even read more
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How the rewards app Freecash scammed its way to the top of the app stores | TechCrunch
A data harvesting app called Freecash appears to have tricked users as it quickly rose to the top charts on the App Store and Google Play, where it sat for months until a recent ban. If you’ve been on TikTok this year, you’ve more than likely encountered ads for Freecash. The app has been marketed read more
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Trade Republic axes customer service chatbots, replaces them with over 1,000 humans
In a world of finance, where automation, AI and chatbots are becoming more commonplace, Germany’s most valuable startup is taking the opposite path. Trade Republic, which is valued at €12.5 billion, is ditching its customer service AI chatbots and replacing them with more than 1,000human customer service agents to ensure that customers can speak to read more
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NASA Wants to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon
Having demonstrated that it has the operational capability to transport humans safely to the moon and back, the United States is moving on to its next major aim: It wants nuclear reactors in orbit and on the lunar surface by 2030. For such a feat, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will have to work read more
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AI Could Democratize One of Tech's Most Valuable Resources
Nvidia is the undisputed king of AI chips. But thanks to the AI it helped build, the champ could soon face growing competition. Modern AI runs on Nvidia designs, a dynamic that has propelled the company to a market cap of well over $4 trillion. Each new generation of Nvidia chip allows companies to train read more
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Google Launches Native Gemini AI App for Mac
Google is bringing Gemini to the Mac with a new native macOS app that’s available starting today. Gemini for Mac can be activated with a keyboard shortcut, and it has built-in tools for generating images, analyzing what’s on your screen, reviewing files, and more. Gemini is the last of the three major AI services to read more
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The Drawings of Femke Hiemestra Depict Fairy Tales with Looming Consequences – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Animals are the primary subjects of Hiemstra’s works, with dogs and cats slated as her favorites and thus reoccurring most often. In art, like literature, animals can challenge perceptions of reality exhibiting an uncanny resemblance to the behaviors of their human counterparts. Hiemstra explains, “I find animals with all their different shapes and forms very read more
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NBA Star Devon Booker Finds Perspective at James Turrell’s Fabled Roden Crater
Devon Booker, a five-time All Star guard for the NBA’s Phoenix Suns, has visited James Turrell’s fabled Roden Crater three times—and even struck up something of a friendship with an artist who called him an “amazing person … taking it to another level, and that’s what all artists try to do.” As reported in a read more
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NEVERCREW Explores Our Tenuous Relationship with Nature in Huge Murals
Artists Christian Rebecchi and Pablo Togni, who work as NEVERCREW, have a knack for bringing the immensity of nature to developed urban spaces. Their colorful, large-scale murals take a playful tack when it comes to portraying animals, often merging them with other objects such as instant photos or, most recently, a plastic punch-out toy. “Souvenir,” read more
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Masha Foya's Airy Illustrations Embrace the Universality of Emotions
“Dreaming in Blue and Green Colors (Part 2).” All images © Masha Foya, shared with permission Where the blue sky breaks through the tree canopy or light reflects onto the surface of a pond, illustrator Masha Foya summons moments of joy and surprise. The Kyiv-based artist’s dreamlike illustrations often portray spaces and individuals in emotional read more
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In the Studio With Rama Duwaji
My first encounter with Rama Duwaji’s art was while waiting in line for the restroom at the Levantine bistro Huda in East Williamsburg back in 2024. It took me a second to realize that I was looking at an NYC-mandated first-aid poster, transformed into a stunning artwork in what I can now recognize as Duwaji’s read more
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Stendr secures $5.4M pre-seed to develop AI-driven defence systems
Stendr, a Norwegian defence technology company, has raised $5.4 million in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round to advance its AI-native platform. The round was co-led by RainFall, ACME, and SkyFall, with participation from Sisyphus, Antler, StartupLab, Off Piste, and Andøya Ventures, alongside a syndicate of global technology founders and investors. Headquartered in Oslo, Stendr is read more
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Gizmo secures $22M Series A to advance AI-powered education
Gizmo, a London-based AI-powered learning platform, has raised $22 million in Series A funding to support its international expansion and further development of its technology. The round was led by Shine Capital, with participation from Ada Ventures, Seek Investments, GSV, and NFX, which previously led the company’s $3.5 million seed round. Founded by Petros Christodoulou read more
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Brix raises $5.5M to support the tokenisation of emerging market assets
Brix, a fintech platform focused on bringing emerging market financial assets on-chain, has raised $5.5 million in a funding round. The round included participation from global financial institutions and Web3 investors, including FRWRD Ventures, Circle Ventures, ConsenSys, Webrazzi Ventures, Borderless Capital, and Paribu Ventures. Angel investors Kemal Kaya, Fevzi Güngör, and Sertaç Özinal also participated. read more
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Cooling becomes strategic: Calyos brings passive thermal tech to Europe’s defence stack
Europe’s push for technological sovereignty is reshaping even the most overlooked parts of the stack—including how systems are cooled. Data centres and compute platforms are essential infrastructure for both the civilian digital economy and modern defence operations. They demand high energy efficiency, robust reliability, and low dependency on local environmental resources such as water or read more
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Allica and ClearBank’s UK businesses report third year of profits
UKSME lender Allica Bank today reported its third consecutive year of profit, whilethe UK business of another UK fintech, ClearBank, also reported its third consecutive year of profit. Pre-tax profits at fintechAllica were up 23 per cent year-on-year to £36.9m in 2025, on the back of increasing its loan book by 23 per cent year-on-yearto read more
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Agriodor raises €15 million to expand scent-based crop protection globally
French Agriodor, an agritech company developing crop protection solutions based on natural plant scents, has raised €15 million in Series A funding to accelerate its international expansion and the deployment of its olfactory biocontrol technology. The round was led by the Environmental and Solidarity Revolution Fund, financed by the societal dividend of Crédit Mutuel Alliance read more
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SolvaPay raises €2.4M to build payment infrastructure for agentic commerce
SolvaPay, a Stockholm-based AI payments platform, has raised €2.4 million in pre-seed funding to develop payment infrastructure for the emerging era of agentic commerce. The round was led by European fintech venture capital firm Redstone and Silicon Valley-based MS&AD Ventures, with additional participation from Antler and Greens Ventures. As digital services continue to evolve, existing read more
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