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  • Edmund secures €2.5M to bring AI-driven troubleshooting to the factory floor

    Edmund, a Czech startup developing an AI-powered debugging platform for industrial maintenance, has raised €2.5 million in funding led by FORWARD.one, with participation from University2Ventures and Tensor Ventures. Check out an earlier Tech.eu interview with Jakub Szlaur, CEO and founder of Edmund. Manufacturing is entering a period of structural strain. As production systems become more read more

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    Edmund secures €2.5M to bring AI-driven troubleshooting to the factory floor

  • Qoro closes $750K to bridge quantum and classical computing

    London-based Qoro Quantum has secured $750,000 in a pre-seed funding round to develop software infrastructure for hybrid quantum-classical computing. The round includes backing from Ada Ventures, Superangels Venture Fund, and the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Founded in 2024, Qoro Quantum is a deeptech company building software infrastructure for distributed quantum computing. Its platform read more

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    Qoro closes 0K to bridge quantum and classical computing

  • OpenAI hits pause on flagship UK data centre scheme

    OpenAI’s plans to bring its flagship $500bn AI data centre project to the UK have been put on hold, with the ChatGPT developer citing energy costs and regulatory issues as factors which have halted its plans. OpenAI announced plans to bring its giant Stargate AI project to the UK in September last year, marking what read more

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    OpenAI hits pause on flagship UK data centre scheme

  • TeiaCare raises €7M to accelerate growth and internationalisation

    Italian-based TeiaCare has raised €7 million in a funding round led by P101 SGR. The round also included participation from existing shareholders and new healthcare-focused investors, including Spanish family offices Namarel and Inderhabs. Founded in 2018 by Guido Magrin and Luca Iozzia, TeiaCare develops care-monitoring solutions for residential healthcare facilities such as nursing homes, rehabilitation read more

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    TeiaCare raises €7M to accelerate growth and internationalisation

  • Sybol raises €1M+ to advance its corporate digital identity wallet

    Spanish startup Sybol, which focuses on corporate digital identity and verifiable credentials, has raised over €1 million in a funding round that combines public and private investment. The round is backed by the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT), alongside investors including Repsol, Grupo Synaptia, Bolboreta Innova Group, Tritemius, Venturade, and Chromata Invest. The company read more

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    Sybol raises €1M+ to advance its corporate digital identity wallet

  • Vinted’s revenues top €1BN but profits slide

    Vinted, the second-hand marketplace unicorn, today said its revenues topped€1bn last year, but profits dipped nearly 20 per cent, as it took a financial hit from its investments. Financial figures for Vinted Group, which includes its coresecond-hand marketplace Vinted, shipping service Vinted Go, and Vinted Pay, its payment platform, show revenues came in at €1.1bn read more

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    Vinted’s revenues top €1BN but profits slide

  • Politicians Are Spending More Money on Security as They Increasingly Become Targets

    Federal campaign and political action committee spending on security during the 2024 election cycle was over five times the amount spent ahead of the 2016 election, according to a new report published on Thursday. The report by the Security Project at the nonpartisan group Public Service Alliance notes that the jump in spending comes as read more

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    Politicians Are Spending More Money on Security as They Increasingly Become Targets

  • Plume raises €3.3M to cut years from renewable energy development timelines

    Plume, a Franco-American startup specialising in geospatial AI for renewable energies, has raised a €3.3M funding round led by AENU, with participation from Y Combinator, Kima Ventures, Raise Phiture, Better Angle and Collab Fund. Founded by Edouard Labarthe (ex-Palantir) and Marc Watine (ex-Harvard researcher in geospatial and AI), the startup was incubated by Y Combinator- read more

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    Plume raises €3.3M to cut years from renewable energy development timelines

  • Revolut rolls out first AI assistant to UK customers


    Revolut is today rolling out its first AI-powered financial assistant to its 13 million-plus UK customers, claiming it is more sophisticated than a traditional chatbot, saying it represents afundamental shift in how customers can interact with their finances. Revolut, valued at $75bn, is the latest challenger bank to leverage AI, hoping to simplify the financial read more

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    Revolut rolls out first AI assistant to UK customers


  • iPhone Air 2 and iPhone 18e Reportedly Launching Early Next Year

    Apple plans to release an updated iPhone Air and a lower-end iPhone 18e early next year, according to the latest word from Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. In a report this week, he said Apple plans to unveil the two devices in spring 2027, alongside a standard iPhone 18. If so, Apple will likely announce the trio read more

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    iPhone Air 2 and iPhone 18e Reportedly Launching Early Next Year

  • Trustees of Renowned West Coast Artist Residency Visited Epstein’s Island

    News Djerassi board members Michael Molesky and Alexander Maxwell Djerassi, nephew of Ghislaine Maxwell, visited the notorious private island in 2011. Alexander Djerassi and Michael Molesky attend the Djerassi Resident Artists’ Program “Artful Harvest” Annual Fundraiser on September 28, 2025. (photo Drew Altizer Photography) Two board members of the esteemed Djerassi Resident Artists Program in read more

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    Trustees of Renowned West Coast Artist Residency Visited Epstein’s Island

  • Verne launches Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service in Zagreb

    Verne today announced the launch of Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service, starting in Zagreb, Croatia. Beginning today, members of the public can now book and pay for a Pony.ai-powered autonomous ride through the Verne app. The service will soon also be available through the Uber app, following a recently announced strategic partnership between the three read more

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    Verne launches Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service in Zagreb

  • OpenAI and Spotify leaders back London-based AI agent security startup in $13M seed round

    A London-based startup which helps mitigate risks and vulnerabilities of businessesdeployingso-called AI agents or AI tools that can complete specific tasks has emerged from stealth with a $13mseed round. The funding round in Trent AI was ledby LocalGlobe and Cambridge Innovation Capital, with participation from leaders at OpenAI, Spotify, Databricks, and Amazon Web Services. The read more

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    OpenAI and Spotify leaders back London-based AI agent security startup in M seed round

  • WholeSum tops up Pre-Seed with $335K to fix AI’s trust problem in text analytics

    UK-based analytics startup WholeSum has brought its total Pre-Seed funding to $1.3 million, with an additional $335,000 new investment from Love Ventures, Beamline, and strategic angels, following its initial $965k raise led by Twin Path Ventures announced earlier this year. The round comes amid growing demand from enterprises in high-trust sectors, where organisations are increasingly read more

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    WholeSum tops up Pre-Seed with 5K to fix AI’s trust problem in text analytics

  • Xoople raises $130M Series B to build Earth’s system of record

    Xoople, the data infrastructure company building a global system of record for physical change on Earth, has closed a $130 million Series B round. The round included investors such as Nazca Capital, MCH, CDTI (Government of Spain), Buenavista Equity Partners, and Endeavor Catalyst, bringing the company’s total funding to $225 million. Founded in 2019, Xoople read more

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    Xoople raises 0M Series B to build Earth’s system of record

  • nFuse raises $2M as messaging overtakes B2B ordering apps

    nFuse, an AI-powered B2B ordering platform that enables retailers and HoReCa operators to place orders through WhatsApp, Viber, and SMS using text, voice, or images, has raised $2 million in funding from Eleven Ventures and LAUNCHub. For the past decade, every major FMCG company has had the same idea: build a B2B eCommerce platform, get read more

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    nFuse raises M as messaging overtakes B2B ordering apps

  • Apple Continues Promoting iOS 26 and macOS 26 Liquid Glass With Updated Design Gallery

    Apple is continuing to highlight the Liquid Glass aesthetic that it introduced in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26. The company has shared an updated Liquid Glass Design Gallery that shows off Liquid Glass in third-party apps. The visual gallery features several iPhone and iPad apps, with screenshots that show the difference between app read more

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    Apple Continues Promoting iOS 26 and macOS 26 Liquid Glass With Updated Design Gallery

  • 12,000 Years Ago, Native Americans Were Playing Games of Chance with Handmade Dice

    Archaeologists have long known that the ancient peoples of North America—not unlike us—played a lot of games. Going back millennia, cultures around the world developed myriad ways to keep entertained, and for a long time, it was thought that the first dice ever used could be traced to the ancient Eastern European and Near East read more

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    12,000 Years Ago, Native Americans Were Playing Games of Chance with Handmade Dice

  • For Frode Bolhuis, The Figure Contains Life’s Mysteries and Its Multitudes – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    For example, hunched shoulders signify insecurity. Straightening up the figure conveys its power, and so on. The standing figure is to Bolhuis what the reclining figure was to Henry Moore: a space to which perpetually return to, full of mysteries that a lifetime of practice can’t hope to unlock. That’s what Bolhuis likes most about read more

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    For Frode Bolhuis, The Figure Contains Life’s Mysteries and Its Multitudes – Hi-Fructose Magazine

  • John Perry Barlow, JFK Jr., and a Night of Grief I Can’t Forget

    Watching the wildly popular television series Love Story took me back to a strange week in my past. One day in April 1994, I was working in a studio apartment that I used as an office. I split the cost with Cynthia Horner, a psychiatrist who’d recently moved out to live with her boyfriend, the read more

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    John Perry Barlow, JFK Jr., and a Night of Grief I Can’t Forget