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Airbnb launches private car transfers in 125+ cities
The new service, available from today across Asia, Europe, and Latin America, lets guests pre-book airport and station transfers directly in the Airbnb app. It’

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Enkei raises a pre-seed round to scale a material made from construction waste that replaces marble and concrete
ReCeramix™, made from over 90% recovered ceramic and construction waste, is already in use at Stockholm boutique hotel Ett Hem, members’ club Angel House, and F

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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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How the Silicon Valley sneaker that was once worth $4 billion ended up selling for $39M
The wool sneaker brand that briefly hit a $4 billion valuation in 2021 has agreed to sell all its assets and IP to American Exchange Group. The company is disso

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RepAir Carbon opens a Luxembourg office to scale its electrochemical carbon capture tech across Europe
The Israeli deeptech, which uses 70% less energy than conventional carbon capture methods and has already signed with Shell, Mitsubishi, and C-Questra, is expan

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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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Rebellions closes $400M pre-IPO round at a $2.34B valuation
The South Korean fabless AI chip company, backed by Samsung, SK Hynix, and Aramco, raises $650M in six months and targets Meta and xAI as US customers. Korea’s

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ScaleOps raises $130M to autonomously manage cloud and AI infrastructure
The New York and Israel-based startup, founded by a former Run:ai engineer and professional triathlete, has grown 350%+ year-on-year and counts Adobe, Wiz, Docu

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Midas raises $50M Series A to solve tokenised finance’s liquidity problem
The Berlin-based RWA tokenisation platform, which has powered $1.7B+ in asset issuance and won EU regulatory approval to serve retail investors, is using the ro

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Uber is acquiring Blacklane, the Berlin chauffeur platform backed by Sixt and Mercedes-Benz
The deal, financial terms undisclosed, expected to close by end of 2026, arrives weeks after Uber launched its own Uber Elite chauffeur service and positions th

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Mainland Chinese tech firms are flooding into Hong Kong as the West tightens the door
The number of mainland Chinese companies listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange rose from 30 in 2024 to 76 in 2025, an increase of 153 per cent, according to P

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UK fines Apple subsidiary for paying a sanctioned Russian streaming service through the App Store
The UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation has fined Apple Distribution International, Apple’s Ireland-based subsidiary, £390,000 for making two paym

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Judge throws out Musk’s advertising boycott lawsuit against X’s former sponsors
A US federal judge has dismissed Elon Musk’s antitrust lawsuit against advertisers who pulled their spending from X, ruling that the company failed to state a v

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Starcloud raises $170M at a $1.1B valuation to build data centres in orbit
The Redmond, Washington startup, which already has an Nvidia H100 GPU operating in orbit and has trained the first AI model in space, is now building a Starship

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Swiss startup miros raises €1.1M for bookable workpods
The Lausanne startup, spun out of EPFL’s robotics lab, has deployed 15 pods across Switzerland and made its first international move with a unit in Toulouse. It

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The largest AI survey ever reveals what humans actually want
Anthropic’s massive AI interview study isn’t really about technology. It’s the largest mirror ever held up to human desire. In December 2025, a software enginee

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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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Mistral secures $830M from seven banks to build its own AI data centre
The French AI company has secured the financing from a seven-bank consortium including BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, HSBC, and MUFG. The data centre at Bruy
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