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OpenUp raises €20M to scale employee mental health platform
The Amsterdam startup, which gives employees direct anonymous access to psychologists, lifestyle experts, and financial counsellors through their employer, now

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Arkadia Space raises €14.5M for green propulsion system
The Spanish propulsion startup, based at Castellón Airport, is the first Spanish space company selected for the European Innovation Council Accelerator. Its DAR

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EU-Startups Summit returns to Malta in May with 2,500 attendees, and 80+ speakers
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

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Google’s new compression algorithm cut memory stocks within hours of publication
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

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Jury finds Meta and YouTube built ‘addiction machines’ that harmed a child, awards $3 million in landmark trial
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

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A new app wants to cure loneliness by getting people off their phones and into the same room
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

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Pepper acquires YC-backed Alima to bring AI to food distribution’s messy product catalogues
Pepper, a New York-based technology platform for independent food distributors, has acquired Alima, a Y Combinator-backed startup that built ordering and procur

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Your finance team is still chasing invoices. Here’s why that costs more than you think
The average small business processes around 500 invoices per month. When that workflow runs on email threads, spreadsheets, and manual check runs, each invoice

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London’s Granola raises $125M to turn meeting recordings into enterprise AI infrastructure
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

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Decathlon doubles warehouse output with Exotec’s climbing robots across seven European sites
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

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

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OpenAI Sora is gone. The artists are still working.
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

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PAVE Space raises $40M to build orbital transfer vehicles
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

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Origin raises $30M Series A+ to give multinationals visibility into a benefits budget
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

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RWS launches Language Weaver Pro
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

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Galtea raises $3.2M to help enterprises test AI agents
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center spin-off, founded eighteen months ago, uses AI to generate realistic test scenarios that expose failures, hallucinations, bi

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Openreach expands collaboration with Google Cloud AI to plan its full-fibre rollout
The BT subsidiary, operator of the UK’s largest broadband network and the country’s second-largest commercial fleet, has built a digital twin of the UK’s transp

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Epoch Biodesign closes $12M to prove its nylon recycling enzymes can work at scale
The London startup uses AI-engineered enzymes to break nylon 6,6 waste, from leggings to airbags to carpets, back into the monomers it was made from, recovering

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Amazon acquires Fauna Robotics and its approachable humanoid Sprout
The deal, Amazon’s second robotics acquisition this month, brings a 50-pound, 3.5-foot bipedal robot called Sprout into the company’s portfolio, less than two m

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The OpenAI Foundation plans to spend at least $1 billion this year
The nonprofit that controls OpenAI has outlined four programme areas, Alzheimer’s, jobs, AI resilience, and community, and brought on two senior hires to run th

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This team password manager costs $1.50/user and just added the features businesses actually need
Somewhere in your company right now, someone is sharing a login credential through Slack, a sticky note, or a spreadsheet named “passwords_final_v3.” You know i

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OpenAI open-sources teen safety policies for developers amid mounting lawsuits over ChatGPT deaths
OpenAI has spent the past year fielding lawsuits from the families of young people who died after extended interactions with ChatGPT. Now it is trying to give t

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BlueConic joins Databricks Marketplace to bring real-time marketing decisions to the lakehouse
Enterprises have spent years and considerable fortunes building data lakehouses, training models, and unifying customer records inside platforms like Databricks

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Halter raises $220M at $2 billion valuation as virtual fencing for cattle goes global
A cow wearing a GPS collar doesn’t sound like a $2 billion idea. But for the ranchers who have strung virtual fences across 60,000 miles of American pastureland
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