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Wearable Robotics closes €5M Series A to scale development
Wearable Robotics, an Italy-based company developing wearable robotics for neuromotor rehabilitation, has raised €5 million in a Series A funding round to support international expansion and product development.The round was led by CDP Venture Capital, with participation from MITO Technology, LIFTT, SIMEST, RoboIT, and Toscana Next, a co-investment fund managed by CDP Venture Capital. The read more
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Kyle Cobban Draws From The Unknown – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Recently, Cobban collaborated with artist Won Kim to create a single piece that fused the former’s drawings with the latter’s acrylic and spray paint style. “We’ve talked about art so much together, and I’ve never really done anything like that before,” Cobban says. So he gave a drawing to Kim, who is known for his read more
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Nine Lessons on My Path From Engagement to Leadership
Editor’s Note: The following text has been excerpted with permission from Curating Engagement (2026), a new field resource developed by the Wagner Foundation and the Public Trust. This essay was adapted from a keynote presentation delivered by Ryan N. Dennis, senior curator and director of public initiatives at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston, at the read more
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Anthropic Says That Claude Contains Its Own Kind of Emotions
Claude has been through a lot lately—a public fallout with the Pentagon, leaked source code—so it makes sense that it would be feeling a little blue. Except, it’s an AI model, so it can’t feel. Right? Well, sort of. A new study from Anthropic suggests models have digital representations of human emotions like happiness, sadness, read more
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Even Artemis II Astronauts Have Microsoft Outlook Problems
About seven hours into the flight of Artemis II, Commander Reid Wiseman experienced something many earthbound Microsoft users know all too well: his Outlook email stopped working. Speaking with mission control in Houston, Commander Wiseman can be heard saying that he had “two Microsoft Outlooks [on his PCD], and neither one of those are working.” read more
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Live Updates: Trump says Iran war will still take weeks, oil prices rise with no plan to open Strait of Hormuz
Israel’s military said Thursday that it had struck “dozens of headquarters, weapons storage facilities, launch sites, and anti-tank missile positions” belonging to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group in Lebanon over the last 24 hours. The IDF said it would continue to “operate decisively against the Hezbollah terror organization” in Lebanon “to remove the threat posed to read more
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Omniscient raises $4.1M to strengthen data-driven executive decision-making
Paris-based Omniscient, a decision intelligence platform for boards and senior executives, has raised $4.1 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Seedcamp, with participation from Drysdale, Plug and Play, MS&AD, Raise, Anamcara, and xdeck, alongside support from Bpifrance. As corporate reputation continues to represent a significant share of enterprise value, organisations face growing read more
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Generare secures €20M to scale molecular discovery platform
Generare, a Paris-based biotechnology company focused on generating molecular data for drug development, has raised €20 million in a Series A funding round. The round was co-led by Alven and Daphni, with participation from existing investors including Galion.exe, Teampact Ventures, and VIVES Partners. Drug discovery has historically been constrained to a relatively narrow chemical space, read more
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Covalo lands €3.5M funding extension to advance personal care data platform
Covalo, a Switzerland-based platform for ingredient discovery and data management in the personal care industry, has raised €3.5 million in a funding extension. The round was led by Hi Inov, with participation from existing investors HTGF and seed+speed Ventures. The company addresses challenges in managing ingredient data, which is often fragmented across multiple systems, formats, read more
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When is the Next Apple Event?
Despite releasing more than 10 new products so far this year, Apple has yet to hold a traditional event with a live-streamed video in 2026. While anything is possible, our best guess at this point is that Apple’s next event will likely be its annual developers conference WWDC in June, with standalone live-streamed Apple Events read more
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Artist Ali Cherri Files Complaint After Israeli Army Kills His Parents, Indian Painting Sets Auction Record: Morning Links for April 2, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines BEARING WITNESS. Today, the acclaimed French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, together with the International Federation for Human Rights, filed a complaint with the French War Crimes Unit against “unknown perpetrators,” and denouncing the Israeli army’s bombing of civilian homes in Lebanon, according to a read more
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UK government-backed fund aimed at backing female founders reaches £130m first close
The flagship fund of a UK government-backed initiative addressing the shortage of equity capital for women in the UK who are building businesses has reached a £130m first close of the fund, it said today. The “Women Backing Women” fund is aiming to raise £250m in totalto invest in female fund managers to back female-led read more
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Symbiotic Communion Flourishes in Laura Berger's Expansive Paintings
Chicago-based artist Laura Berger continues her explorations of communion in a suite of staggering paintings that place her signature minimal figures in intimate fellowship with one another and the earth. Spanning six feet wide, the monumental works layer limbs and landscapes, as nude bodies merge with waves, flowers, and sun-strewn clouds. Berger frequently gestures toward read more
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New Belgian AI platform Backbone aims to cut costly quality failures in food production
Former managers at Belgian legaltech scale-up Henchman are launching Backbone, an AI platform for real-time quality and compliance management in the food industry, with Seed funding from 100IN. Backbone consolidates fragmented data, from supplier documents to lab results, giving quality managers the tools to detect risks before they reach production. A recipe change at a read more
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Cafeyn acquires Readly’s non-Nordic operations to scale European press platform
Press aggregation platform Cafeyn Group is acquiring Readly’s non-Nordic operations, marking a significant step forward in its European expansion. Cafeyn offers unlimited access to over 2,000 national and international titles across multiple formats and devices, while Readly provides a single subscription that gives users access to over 8,000 magazines and newspapers. Following the transaction, Cafeyn read more
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Paparuda Studio lands €210K to launch Moldova’s next generation of game development talent
Today, Moldovan game development studio Paparuda Studio secured an investment of over €210,000 (4 million MDL) to develop its first internationally targeted video game, marking a new step in the country’s transition toward high-value digital industries. Founded in 2026 by Victor Marchitan, Artiom Snegur, and Alex Culeva, Paparuda Studio represents a new generation of Moldovan read more
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Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open source LiteLLM project | TechCrunch
Mercor, a popular AI recruiting startup, has confirmed a security incident linked to a supply chain attack involving the open source project LiteLLM. The AI startup told TechCrunch on Tuesday that it was “one of thousands of companies” affected by a recent compromise of LiteLLM’s project, which was linked to a hacking group called TeamPCP. read more
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Nothing's AI devices plan reportedly contains smart glasses and earbuds | TechCrunch
London-based hardware company Nothing is on track to release a pair of smart glasses next year, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources. The glasses will likely feature cameras, microphones, and speakers, and will connect to a smartphone and the cloud to process AI queries, the report said. CEO and co-founder Carl Pei was initially resistant to read more
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2025 Photo Awards Winner: Jonah Reenders
Can you describe three life moments that made you who you are today? I grew up on a blueberry farm, and it had a profound effect on who I am today. It created a deep connection with the earth and its seasons, and how to care for the land. My entire childhood revolved around being read more
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Explains His Relationship With Trump
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has maintained a working relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump, and he touched on that in a recent interview. Cook sat down with Esquire‘s Ryan D’Agostino to discuss Apple’s 50th anniversary, but he was also asked about how he navigates the Trump administration. Cook responded by saying that “the Trump administration read more
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