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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enterprises have spent years and considerable fortunes building data lakehouses, training models, and unifying customer records inside platforms like Databricks

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

In the sprawl north of Dallas, where data centres are multiplying and the Texas grid groans under record demand, Energy Vault has placed a new bet on battery st

A new entrant into the crowded but urgent European air defence startup space has closed its first significant round, as capital chases the continent’s most pres

The Paris-Milan VC’s new vehicle is the latest sign that European investors are hardwiring defence into their deeptech strategy. There is a version of this stor

For most of the past decade, the received wisdom in European venture capital was simple enough: if you wanted a serious fund, you needed a partnership. The larg

A quieter week by headline standards, but one that reveals a great deal about where European venture capital is quietly concentrating: AI agents for physical in

The indictment of Super Micro’s co-founder exposes not just a $2.5 billion scheme, it exposes a system that was never built to stop one. Somewhere in a rented w

Automattic has added write capabilities to WordPress.com’s MCP integration, giving AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT the ability to create posts, build pages, m