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  • Samaipata launches €110M Fund III to back Europe’s next generation of AI-native startups

    VC firm Samaipata has launched its third fund – Samaipata III – a €110 million vehicle aimed at backing early-stage tech startups building on the AI wave. Samaipata plans to invest in 25 to 30 early-stage companies, with the capacity to deploy up to €10 million per startup over time. The main focus is on read more

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    Samaipata launches €110M Fund III to back Europe’s next generation of AI-native startups

  • More UNESCO Sites Damaged in Isfahan and Lebanon, Democrats Probe Whereabouts of Millions Given to Fund Trump Library: Morning Links for March 11, 2026

    To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines IRANIAN LANDMARKS HIT. More news of damage to historical sites in Iran is coming through as the war drags on in the region, reports The Art Newspaper. Following the UNESCO-listed Chehel Sotoun in Isfahan and the Golestan Palace in Tehran, other landmarks have read more

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    More UNESCO Sites Damaged in Isfahan and Lebanon, Democrats Probe Whereabouts of Millions Given to Fund Trump Library: Morning Links for March 11, 2026

  • Sybilion secures $4.2M to build AI platform for industrial markets

    Sybilion has closed a $4.2 million seed funding round to develop what it describes as a decision platform designed to help industrial companies respond earlier to market changes and manage margin exposure in volatile conditions. The round was co-led by Venturefriends and Semapa Next and follows the company’s $600,000 pre-seed round, announced a few months read more

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    Sybilion secures .2M to build AI platform for industrial markets

  • Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming

    With organized, industrial-scale scamming causing a multibillion-dollar crisis around the world, Meta announced new account protections on Wednesday aimed at flagging potentially suspicious activity to users as early in a scam interaction as possible. The company also shared details about a recent Thai law enforcement collaboration that resulted in 21 arrests and Meta disabling over read more

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    Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming

  • Decoding DNA with AI: Living Models emerges from stealth with $7M

    Living Models, a Paris–Berkeley startup, has raised $7 million in seed funding as it emerges from stealth to develop foundation models for biology trained on DNA, RNA, and multi-omics data aimed at improving understanding of biological systems. To support the next stage of development, the company has also secured access to a computing cluster of read more

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    Decoding DNA with AI: Living Models emerges from stealth with M

  • The Fort Strength Training Wearable Tracks Your Sets

    Assuming it works, the Fort would be the most attractive and easy-to-use velocity tracker on the market by far. “We use the IMU sensors to detect which exercise the user is performing and identify the period engaging in concentric, eccentric, or isometric hold,” says Nover, demonstrating as best she can within the confines of a read more

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    The Fort Strength Training Wearable Tracks Your Sets

  • Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence

    I think its product has a profound democratizing effect. In theory, a kid sitting in a provincial town in rural Brazil should be able to receive the same responsive interaction with the Efekta AI teacher as someone living in Mayfair. Is anything lost by the introduction of AI to the classroom? Will we end up read more

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    Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence

  • This open-source bet is paying off as United Manufacturing Hub takes on industrial giants

    For years, manufacturers have experimented with Industry 4.0 — running pilots in predictive maintenance, production monitoring, and AI-driven optimisation. Yet many of these initiatives struggled to move beyond proof-of-concept. The underlying problem wasn’t a lack of ideas, but the difficulty of accessing and structuring machine data across complex factory environments. United Manufacturing HubSystems (UMH) is read more

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    This open-source bet is paying off as United Manufacturing Hub takes on industrial giants

  • Spectral Birds Endemic to New Zealand Find New Life in Fiona Pardington's Portraits

    There is an air of the spectral to Fiona Pardington’s recent photographs of birds. While they are actual specimens, captured in atmospheric light and exhibiting unique plumage and expressions, there’s something a little bit uncanny about them. Are they real? In a sense, yes, but they’re no longer alive. Some no longer even exist. For read more

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    Spectral Birds Endemic to New Zealand Find New Life in Fiona Pardington's Portraits

  • Luxembourg’s Culture Minister Defends Country’s Venice Biennale Budget After Critics Say It’s Too High

    Luxembourg’s pavilion for the upcoming Venice Biennale has sparked a political spat at home, after lawmakers questioned both the cost of the project and the nature of the work set to represent the country. At the center of the debate is La Merde, a project by Luxembourg-born artist Aline Bouvy representing the country at the read more

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    Luxembourg’s Culture Minister Defends Country’s Venice Biennale Budget After Critics Say It’s Too High

  • Works by Auerbach, Chadwick, and Hepworth to Spearhead Christie’s Modern British and Irish Art Sale in London

    After taking an impressive £197.5 million ($265 million) from its marathon, three-pronged modern and contemporary evening sale last week, Christie’s London is now preparing for its modern British and Irish art sale on March 18. Frank Auerbach, Lynn Chadwick, and Barbara Hepworth spearhead the tightly curated auction of 26 works. Among the top lots is read more

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    Works by Auerbach, Chadwick, and Hepworth to Spearhead Christie’s Modern British and Irish Art Sale in London

  • Mental health startup Bliss raises $270K to build culturally intelligent AI for therapy

    Originally founded in Albania and headquartered in Finland, mental health startup Bliss has raised $270,000 in angel funding led by Keiretsu Forum, Finest Love VC, and Plug and Play to develop AI infrastructure designed to support culturally aware therapy services. The round combines angel investment and non-dilutive grants and represents the first Albanian-Finnish startup investment read more

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    Mental health startup Bliss raises 0K to build culturally intelligent AI for therapy

  • Estonia leads Europe in fintech growth as Wallester becomes the sector’s fastest-growing company

    The Financial Times and Statista have unveiled the 10th edition of the FT1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies, confirming Estonia’s position as a powerhouse for financial innovation. Leading the national charge for the second consecutive year is Tallinn-based fintech Wallester, which has surged into the Top 40 of the overall European ranking. Securing the 38th position read more

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    Estonia leads Europe in fintech growth as Wallester becomes the sector’s fastest-growing company

  • Deep Science Ventures launches new doctoral cohort to turn science into startups

    Deep Science Ventures has funded the third cohort of its Venture Science Doctorate programme, which empowers a new archetype of Venture Scientist to solve neglected health and planetary challenges. Starting this April, the next cohort of five venture scientistswill be supported by a funding consortium led by SPRIND, Germany’s Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation, and read more

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    Deep Science Ventures launches new doctoral cohort to turn science into startups

  • finperks raises $4M pre-seed to build prepaid payments infrastructure

    Berlin-based finperks has closed a $4 million pre-seed funding round led by Motive Partners and seed+speed Ventures. The company is developing API infrastructure for the global prepaid market, including gift cards, eCash, and prepaid cards, a sector projected to reach $4.24 trillion by 2035. Demand for digital rewards, cashback, and employee benefits continues to grow, read more

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    finperks raises M pre-seed to build prepaid payments infrastructure

  • Tornadoes hit Midwest, homes destroyed and heavy damage reported

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    Tornadoes hit Midwest, homes destroyed and heavy damage reported

  • Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it

    A programmer’s text editor is their castle Toy software performing a task when the stars align and the bytes hold their breath is one thing. Ingesting whatever freakish data the real world has to offer and handling it gracefully is another. For a while I’ve been dissatisfied with my text editor. I settled on Howl read more

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    Writing my own text editor, and daily-driving it

  • A better method for planning complex visual tasks

    MIT researchers have developed a generative artificial intelligence-driven approach for planning long-term visual tasks, like robot navigation, that is about twice as effective as some existing techniques. Their method uses a specialized vision-language model to perceive the scenario in an image and simulate actions needed to reach a goal. Then a second model translates those read more

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    A better method for planning complex visual tasks

  • Google brings Gemini in Chrome to India | TechCrunch

    Google announced Wednesday that it is bringing Gemini integration for Chrome to new regions, including India, Canada, and New Zealand. The rollout will let users use Gemini in Chrome through a sidebar on desktop, enabling them to ask Google’s AI chatbot questions about the content on the screen, get information from their Gmail, Keep, Drive, read more

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  • Trump administration’s mixed messaging sparks wild swings in oil markets

    Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Chris Wright, the US energy secretary, on Tuesday afternoon declared a huge potential breakthrough for energy markets rattled by the Iran war. With the conflict raging, Wright wrote on X that the US read more

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    Trump administration’s mixed messaging sparks wild swings in oil markets