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Anthropic just paid $400 million for a startup with fewer than 10 people
Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, a stealth biotech AI startup founded barely eight months ago, in an all-stock deal worth just over $400 million. The acq

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Tencent is building an enterprise empire on top of an Austrian developer’s open-source lobster
Tencent Holdings has launched ClawPro, an enterprise AI agent management platform built on OpenClaw, the open-source framework that has become the fastest-growi

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IREX Launches Smarter, Faster Fire and Smoke AI Detection to Protect Communities and Critical Infrastructure
[Washington, DC – April 2, 2026] – IREX, a global pioneer in ethical AI and intelligent video analytics deployed across 10+ countries and over 300,000 cameras,

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Penemue raises €1.7M to scale AI hate speech detection
The German startup detects online hate, digital violence, and disinformation across 89 languages in real time, and works with public prosecutors and police alon

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Italian rehabilitation robotics startup Wearable Robotics raises €5M to expand its arm exoskeleton
The Pisa-based Sant’Anna spin-off has deployed its ALEX RS bilateral upper-limb exoskeleton across 20 countries since founding in 2014. CDP Venture Capital led

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Google launches Gemma 4: four open-weight models from smartphones to workstations
Built from the same research as Gemini 3, the new family spans a 2B edge model that runs on a Raspberry Pi to a 31B dense model currently ranked third on the Ar

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Covalo raises €3.5M to become the shared data infrastructure for an industry where 80% of products will need reformulating by 2030
The Zurich platform, which connects 1,500+ ingredient suppliers and 6,000 brands including Givaudan, Symrise, PUIG, and La Prairie, is evolving from a discovery

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Generare raises €20M to decode the 97% of microbial chemistry
The Paris techbio company screens microbial genomes to find molecules that evolution spent three billion years producing, and claims to have characterised more

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More than 100 Baidu robotaxis froze mid-traffic in Wuhan. The age of the mass fleet failure has arrived.
On Tuesday evening in Wuhan, more than 100 of Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxis stopped moving. They did not pull over. They did not activate an emergency protocol. T

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Australia says Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube are not complying with its child social media ban. Court action may follow.
Three months after Australia became the first country in the world to ban children under 16 from holding social media accounts, its online safety regulator says

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Finnish neurowellness startup Audicin raises $1.9M
The all-female-founded company, backed by Oura Health co-founders and Business Finland, uses brainwave entrainment to support focus, sleep, and recovery via bac

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Decentraland just launched on the Epic Games Store.
The metaverse was supposed to be its own destination. You would put on a headset, enter a virtual world, and never need to think about the platform that brought

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The Multi-Hop Challenge: Understanding Indirect Blockchain Exposure in Compliance
Public blockchains operate as permissionless networks where anyone can send digital assets to any address at any time. This open architecture creates a fundamen

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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards just named 18 US tech firms as military targets. The age of the civilian data centre is over.
At 8pm Tehran time on Tuesday, a new kind of front line was drawn, not through desert terrain or along a disputed border, but through the server farms, cloud re

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ByteDance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2.0 as it begins cautious global rollout
Six weeks ago, a video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt on a rooftop went viral. It was, of course, not real. It was generated by Seedance 2.0, ByteDance’s AI v

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Qover raises $12M from CIBC, and sets its sights on 100 million people protected by 2030
The Belgian embedded insurance orchestration platform, which backs Revolut, Mastercard, BMW, and Monzo, has tripled revenue over four years and now covers 15 mi

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Microsoft commits $1 billion to Thailand for cloud and AI infrastructure
Brad Smith met Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul in Bangkok to announce the 2026-2028 investment spanning data centre infrastructure, cybersecurity, sovereign

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Empirical Ventures secures £10M from the British Business Bank to back UK ‘venture scientists
Empirical Ventures, which backs what it calls “venture scientists”, PhDs building deeptech companies across energy, materials, and life sciences, has received a

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Flipsnack and the shift toward motion-first business content with living visuals
Interactive content now generates 52.6% higher engagement than static formats, with users spending significantly longer interacting with dynamic media and showi

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How AI’s capital explosion signals opportunity but also reveals a critical need for measurable ROI and meaningful impact
The current wave of investment in artificial intelligence reflects one of the largest capital shifts in modern technology, yet questions around financial return

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From satellite ops to nordic launchpad
Bjørn Ottar Elseth, an aerospace engineer and strategic advisor, has dedicated his career to connecting technology, leadership, and collaboration in ways that s

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TerraSpark raises €5M+ to beam solar power from orbit to Earth
The Luxembourg startup is taking a deliberately earth-first approach: proving radio-frequency wireless power transmission on the ground before scaling to orbit.

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Bluesky’s new Attie app uses AI to give you full control over your social feed
The standalone app, built on the AT Protocol and powered by Anthropic’s Claude, was unveiled at the ATmosphere conference by Jay Graber, who stepped back from B

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Finnish quantum unicorn IQM lands €50M from BlackRock
The Helsinki-based company, which builds and sells full-stack superconducting quantum computers for on-premises deployment, disclosed the financing today. It wa
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