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Art and Power Collide in New York City
New York Newsletter The Epstein files rip through the art world’s elite, yet hope emerges in the work of Goya, Amazonian artists, and three millennia of storytellers. Call it conceited, call it tunnel vision, call it East Coast elitism or editorial hyperbole, but sometimes it really does feel like everything in the world runs through read more
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The Political Power of Glitter
Daily Newsletter Damien Davis on the loss of an artist’s archive, glitter’s defiance, Mona Lisa in the Epstein files, and more. Last summer, I did face painting at a block party in my Brooklyn neighborhood. In the sweltering August humidity, I rendered pink butterflies and Spiderman webs on tiny, sticky faces; unsurprisingly, my designs didn’t read more
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Willo secures €2.9M to commercialise alignment-free wireless power
Finnish-headquartered deeptech company Willo has raised a €2.9 million Pre-Seed round to accelerate the development of its wireless power system. While most wireless power systems depend on alignment or directionality, Willo has designed a system that keeps devices charging over the air even as they move and rotate. From hackathon meeting to deeptech founders Willo read more
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The power crunch threatening America’s AI ambitions
Many utility companies are pinning their short-term hopes on “demand response” solutions that require companies to curtail activity at peak times. AI model builders typically run data centres at full capacity during “training runs” — where they feed LLMs with vast amounts of data to improve accuracy. These rises in activity can clash with consumption read more
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United Manufacturing Hub bags €5m to power a shared data backbone for factories
Industrial data management platform United Manufacturing Hub (UMH) has raised €5 million in funding to accelerate its mission of building the foundational data layer for global manufacturing. The round was led by KOMPAS VC, with participation from seed + speed Ventures, Sustainable Future Ventures, Archimedes New Ventures, and renowned industry angels, including Jan Oberhauser (Founder read more
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Enlightra exits stealth with $15M to power energy-efficient AI data centre lasers
Enlightra, a deeptech startup developing chip-scale multiwavelength lasers for next-generation data transmission, has raised a total of $15 million. Investors include Y Combinator, Runa Capital, Pegasus Tech Ventures, Protocol Labs, Halo Labs, Asymmetry Ventures, and TRAC VC, among others. Modern AI training increasingly depends on faster connections between GPUs, yet many systems still rely on read more
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Elvy raises €500M to power its next-generation energy solution
Swedish energy company Elvy has secured a €500 million financing package from Scayl and a banking partner to fund home energy packages offered through a monthly subscription model. The packages include solar panels, heat pumps, and home battery systems, and are designed to remove the need for large upfront investments. Elvy is providing integrated home read more
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Fal raises $140M Series D to power the next era of real-time generative media
Real-time generative media platform fal today announced a $140 million Series D financing, bringing its funding to over $400 million. Türkiye-founded, fal is an infrastructure layer for real-time AI-generated content, enabling developers and enterprises to run any model—open-source, private, or commercial—through a single, ultra-low-latency serverless API. The platform automatically scales globally and eliminates DevOps overhead, read more
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From heat waste to heat source: Power Mining launches shipping-container data centres for city heating
Personal Bitcoin mining device manufacturer Power Mining has developed a portable data centre that will heat towns using residual heat from Bitcoin mining. Bitcoin mining consumes a significant amount of electricity globally eliciting significant greenhouse gas emissions and local air-pollution impacts. In response, the sector is advocating for ways to not only reduce the energy read more
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Skeleton opens €220M Leipzig SuperFactory to power Europe’s AI and grid stability
Skeleton Technologies has officially opened its €220 million SuperFactory in Markranstädt, near Leipzig. The facility is already delivering to Siemens, General Electric, and Hitachi Energy for European electrical grids, and to major US hyperscalers for AI infrastructure. I sat down with CEOTaavi Madiberk to learn all about it. Skeleton Technologies is a European global leader read more
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Neuracore raises $3M to power next-gen robots and open robotics research
London-based Neuracore, a robot learning platform focused on faster scaling and deployment, has closed a $3 million pre-seed round led by Earlybird Venture Capital, with participation from Clem Delangue (Co-founder & CEO of Hugging Face) and advisors from academia, hardware, and AI. Founded in 2024 by Stephen James, Assistant Professor of Robot Learning at Imperial read more
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Recruiting platform Helio AI secures $1M Seed to power faster, fairer frontline hiring
Recruitment tech startup Helio AI has secured a $1 million Seed round led by SABAH.fund, joined by DOMiNO Ventures, Axiom, Tetrad VC,and Angel investor Bas Godska. The US-based, Georgian-founded team has developed an AI-powered recruiting platform for high-volume and frontline hiring. It combines an intelligent recruiting agent, able to chat, think, and act in local read more
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Noahs raises €1.9M to power its expansion to 600 digitised food locations by 2026
Noahs, a Copenhagen-based food-tech company that transforms the service stations, convenience stores (c-stores), supermarkets, and travel hubs into modern food destinations, has raised €1.9 million in new funding at a €6.5 million pre-money valuation. Founded in 2020, Noahs has redefined how food integrates into retail — building a platform that enables global retailers to enter read more
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Ángela Ferrari's Dramatic Paintings Tease Out a Passionate Play for Power
Aggression and struggles for power abound in the vivid paintings of Ángela Ferrari. The Argentinian artist is keen to explore the limits and consequences of control through scenes rife with antagonism: dogs nip at each other, horses buck and bare their teeth, and birds lie lifeless. Evoking hunting paintings and masculine displays of pride for read more
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Chanel and Power Station of Art Open Mainland China’s First Public Library Dedicated to Contemporary Art
Chanel has announced the public opening of Espace Gabrielle Chanel, mainland China’s first public library dedicated to contemporary art, at Shanghai’s Power Station of Art (PSA). The 1,700-square-foot library was designed by renowned Japanese architect Kazunari Sakamoto and is located on the third floor of the museum. It holds more than 50,000 books and audiobooks, read more
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Europe at a “crossroads” as it is called to power its first trillion-euro tech company
Europeis at a “crossroads” and has not realised its full potential, according to leading VC firm Atomico, which has urged the European ecosystem to power its firsttrillion-euro company. Atomico’s latest State of European Tech report (its eleventh) paints a positive picture of the European startup scene but says structural gaps mean Europe is potentially leaving read more
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Condukt emerges from stealth with $10M to power next-generation compliance
London-based Condukt, a next-generation compliance platform for financial services, has raised $10 million in seed funding and emerged from stealth. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and MMC Ventures, with participation from Cocoa Ventures. Founded in May 2023, Condukt is designed as an agentic, real-time compliance solution that is always-on and policy-aware, giving read more
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The Violence of Man: Cleon Peterson’s Bold & Brutal Paintings Depict Humanity’s Struggle For Power – Hi-Fructose Magazine
They would come to a show, turn around, and walk out, just completely offended.” When Peterson went to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, he was still in his teens. Myrtle Avenue was a pretty dark place—Peterson recalls, early on, seeing a man sitting in his car with his head blown off—but the darkness resonated with read more
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