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Blossom Health, a New York-based telepsychiatry startup founded in 2024, has raised $20 million in combined seed and Series A funding to scale an AI-powered pla

Most organizations are not failing at AI because of technology. They are failing because they do not know which data actually matters, and they are scaling that

Xero, the New Zealand-founded accounting platform used by 4.6 million subscribers worldwide, announced on Wednesday a multi-year partnership with Anthropic that

Shield AI, the San Diego defence technology company behind the autonomous pilot system Hivemind, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $2 billion in combine

If you have ever spent weeks preparing for a compliance audit, manually collecting evidence across spreadsheets, chasing colleagues for policy sign-offs, and wo

The London-based personalised supplement startup, which uses blood biomarker data to formulate individual supplement regimens, will be integrated into Herbalife

The Cambridge-based AI company, founded by a former Amazon Alexa research scientist, builds a self-learning economic map that models companies as multidimension

On-road testing in Croatia’s capital is already underway using Pony.ai’s Gen-7 system on the Arcfox Alpha T5, a Chinese-manufactured robotaxi. Uber intends to i

The Amsterdam startup, which gives employees direct anonymous access to psychologists, lifestyle experts, and financial counsellors through their employer, now

The Spanish propulsion startup, based at Castellón Airport, is the first Spanish space company selected for the European Innovation Council Accelerator. Its DAR

The 12th edition of one of Europe’s longest-running startup events takes place on 7–8 May in Valletta. Alongside the usual pitch competition and investor matchm

Google published a research blog post on Tuesday about a new compression algorithm for AI models. Within hours, memory stocks were falling. Micron dropped 3 per

A Los Angeles jury has found Meta and Google liable for intentionally building addictive social media platforms that harmed a young woman’s mental health, award

A startup called Friending has launched a social platform built around a premise that sounds almost quaint in 2026: helping people make friends by meeting in pe

Pepper, a New York-based technology platform for independent food distributors, has acquired Alima, a Y Combinator-backed startup that built ordering and procur

The average small business processes around 500 invoices per month. When that workflow runs on email threads, spreadsheets, and manual check runs, each invoice

Granola, the London-based AI meeting app that records conversations without dropping a bot into the call, has raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Dan

The world’s largest sporting goods retailer has turned seven of its European warehouses over to robots, and the early results suggest the machines are earning t

Meta began cutting hundreds of jobs on Wednesday across Reality Labs, Facebook, recruiting, sales, and global operations, according to people familiar with the

Last September, when OpenAI quietly released the Sora 2 app to the public, the discourse around it was not quiet at all. Commentators who had spent months watch

The Swiss startup, spun out of EPFL’s student rocketry programme that built Europe’s first student-made reusable rocket, has raised one of the largest seed roun

The London startup, founded by the team behind Darwin, acquired by Mercer in 2016, has built an AI platform that ingests fragmented global benefits data from PD

The AIM-listed language technology company says its new model, the largest dedicated translation model in production, ranked first in 31 of 32 languages in inte

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center spin-off, founded eighteen months ago, uses AI to generate realistic test scenarios that expose failures, hallucinations, bi