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  • “We are where ChatGPT was five years ago,” says European 3D AI foundation model startup boss

    OneofEurope’stop AI researchers, who is heading upa3D AI foundation model startup, says that 3D AI models are “kind of where ChatGPT for language wasfive years ago”. Matthias Niessner,the CEO andco-founderofSpAItial,tooka leave of absence from leadingthe visualcomputingand AI lab at the Technical University of Munich to launch the Munich andLondon-basedstartupSpAItial,whichlast year landed a $13m seed round. read more

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  • After Five Years of Community Building, Social Practice CUNY Initiative to End in 2027

    “I don’t think that anybody ever starts with a clear plan to sunset, but nor did I think that this would necessarily institutionalize in a way that would make it exist forever,” artist and Chloë Bass told ARTnews in a recent interview about Social Practice CUNY, the initiative she has co-directed for the past five read more

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  • 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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  • 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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  • Qover raises $12M from CIBC as it celebrates 10 years of embedded insurance growth

    Insurtech Qover today marks its 10th anniversary with a significant milestone: the extension of a $12 million growth capital facility from CIBC Innovation Banking, bringing total funding raised since inception to over $100 million. Founded in 2016 by Quentin Colmant and Jean-Charles Velge, Qover set out to make insurance simple, transparent, and accessible across borders read more

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  • OakNorth reports nudge up in profits, delays net zero target by 10 years

    OakNorth, the UK challenger lending bank, has reported anudge up in year-on-yearpre-tax profits in 2025 from £215m to £223m, helped by US growth. The SoftBank-backed bank, however, delayed its net zero target by ten years. OakNorth said itnow hopes to reach its net zero target in 2045, not 2035, as it set out in 2022. read more

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  • After Two Years of Decline, the Art Market Edges Back to Growth, Says 2026 Art Basel UBS Report

    The global art market clawed its way back to modest growth in 2025, reaching an estimated$59.6 billion in sales, according to the latestArt Basel and UBS Art Market Report, by economist Clare McAndrew of Arts Economics. The total represents a4 percent increase from the previous year, breaking a two-year slide in sales—though the market still read more

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    After Two Years of Decline, the Art Market Edges Back to Growth, Says 2026 Art Basel UBS Report

  • Met Museum Appears to Be Planning the First US Cy Twombly Retrospective in More Than 30 Years

    While the Metropolitan Museum of Art just announced a sizable Lee Krasner–Jackson Pollock exhibition for the fall, it now appears that that show isn’t the only grand one for a postwar painter on the docket at the New York institution. Last week, the Met posted a job posting for a researcher who would work on read more

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    Met Museum Appears to Be Planning the First US Cy Twombly Retrospective in More Than 30 Years

  • Chicago’s DePaul Art Museum to Close After 40 Years

    The DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, founded in 1985 and part of DePaul University, will close at the end of its current fiscal year, on June 30. The school, which faces considerable financial challenges, announced the closure in an announcement to the community Thursday morning. In December, the school laid off 114 out of 1,493 read more

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  • €100K, 100 startups, 3 years: The Baltics double down on early talent

    Get ready to feel old. According to a recent report, the average age of AI unicorn founders dropped from 40 in 2020 to 29 in 2024. And the trend continues. It’s been called a “youthquake,” shaking up the Silicon Valleys of the world. An ambitious Gen Z, coming of age in the AI-era, is not read more

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  • Not resilient, strategic: The reality of Ukraine’s tech ecosystem four years on

    On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Tech.eu remains committed to amplifying Ukrainian founders and investors — not merely as a gesture of solidarity, but as recognition of their ongoing impact in innovation, creating front-running tech for international scale. Ukraine’s tech ecosystem is not paused by war. It is evolving — read more

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  • Fleet opens its capital at a €100M valuation after seven years of bootstrapping

    Fleet, a French scale-up specialising in IT fleet management, equipment, and security for SMEs, announces the entry of ISAI Expansion into its capital through its ISAI Expansion III fund at a €100 million valuation. After seven years of existence and having been entirely bootstrapped to date, Fleet is opening its capital to external investors for read more

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  • Researchers Have Found the World’s Oldest Known Rock Art in Indonesia, Dating Back 67,800 Years

    Less than two years after discovering a 51,200-year-old cave painting of a pig on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in what was then declared the oldest known figurative artwork, the same researchers have discovered an even older work. The newly dated work, located on the southeastern peninsula of Sulawesi, is a hand stencil dating to read more

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    Researchers Have Found the World’s Oldest Known Rock Art in Indonesia, Dating Back 67,800 Years

  • Vi Partners marks 25 years with first close of €161M new venture fund

    Vi Partners this week announced the first close of its latest venture capital fund, targeting €161 million (CHF 150 million). It coincides with Vi Partners’ 25th anniversary, marking a quarter-century of continuous venture capital activity. Since its founding in 2001, Vi Partners has supported successive generations of entrepreneurs and contributed to Switzerland’s development as a read more

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  • Queens Museum Leader Sally Tallant to Step Down After Seven Years

    News Under Tallant, the museum secured a $26 million expansion allocation from the city, but also drew controversy and criticism. Former Queens Museum Director Sally Tallant (photo by Thierry Bal, courtesy Queens Museum) After a seven-year tenure, Sally Tallant will step down as president and executive director of the Queens Museum this summer, per an read more

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  • 40 Years On, DC Artists Revisit Don Miller's MLK Mural

    Features Since 1986, the 56-foot painting at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library has served as a visual portal into the civil rights leader’s life and legacy. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, with Don Miller’s “King Mural” (photo by Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images) Washington, DC — Last month, DC-based read more

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  • Pennsylvania Man Who Stole Warhol and Pollock Paintings in Museum Theft Ring Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison

    Joseph Atsus, a 51-year-old Pennsylvania man, was sentenced on Tuesday to 48 months in prison, a term of supervised release, and $1 million in restitution for several charges related to his participation in a notorious museum theft ring, the Department of Justice announced earlier this week. Atsus was part of a eight-person ring that stole read more

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  • Michelangelo Made His First Masterpiece When He Was 12 Years Old

    Before he was a titan of Renaissance art history, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) was a 12-year-old, although his childhood looked quite a bit different from what we associate with that age today. Already deeply invested in drawing and painting, he studied others’ work, such as an engraving titled “Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons,” created by 15th-century read more

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  • Adorable, with Teeth: Twenty Years of the Art of Ciou – Hi-Fructose Magazine

    My work had a “more is more” approach – perhaps even too much, but it always felt just right to me. In 2014, your practice changed, you moved away from using collage backgrounds, using mostly cut out pages filled with words. Looking back, any reason why you navigated away form this part of your practice? read more

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