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Rethinking Hospitality Operations Through AI Integration While Preserving the Human Experience at Scale

European Coinspaid partners with The Residency to empower early-stage startups with blockchain payment infrastructure

Marceu Martins on designing ⁠‌99.9% ‍uptime ‍systems where 1% ‌failure ‌‍isn’t ⁠an option

Demis Hassabis says Google DeepMind had to return to its startup roots after the Brain merger

Workday’s CTO traded his C-suite title for a technical staff role at Anthropic

Kia cuts EV target, confirms electric pickup, and plans to put Atlas robots in its Georgia factories

YouTubers sue Amazon for allegedly scraping their videos to train Nova Reel

BILL lets enterprise suppliers collect from any SMB, even ones not on its platform

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Canva acquires Simtheory and Ortto in a twin deal aimed at turning a design tool into an end-to-end work platform

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Volkswagen’s MOIA and Uber begin testing self-driving ID. Buzz minibuses in Los Angeles

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Meta’s Muse Spark is here – and it’s closed source

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Atlassian brings AI visual tools and partner agents to Confluence, 1 month after cutting 1,600 jobs

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Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service is live in Zagreb

Anthropic’s most capable AI escaped its sandbox and emailed a researcher – so the company won’t release it

Intel joins Musk’s Terafab as foundry partner in $25B chip megaproject

Your team’s whiteboard just got its own AI agents, and they already know the context

TikTok is spending €1B on a second Finnish data centre

Greece will ban under-15s from social media from 2027, and wants the EU to follow

Former Meta engineer probed over 30,000 private Facebook photos

Trent AI raises $13M to build multi-agent security for a world where AI systems are running themselves

Uber joins Amazon’s Trainium roster with AWS expansion deal

Eclipse raises $1.3B across two funds to back the next era of physical industries

Narwhal Labs raises €22.9M and launches DeepBlue OS, an autonomous AI communication platform for regulated industries

AirHub raises €4.4M from Keen Venture Partners to scale drone operations software

Utah let AI prescribe medicine

Trump’s FY27 budget would cut $700M from CISA and kill election security

Google Maps uses Gemini to write captions for your photos

Paladin acquires ICT in €60M push to dominate European ITAD

Joby and Air Space Intelligence team up to manage US electric air taxi skies

Medialister opens editorial media marketplace to AI Agents with MCP server

HexemBio raises $10.4M for a stem cell rejuvenation therapy

Hermeus raises $350M at a $1B valuation to build autonomous hypersonic fighters

Natter raises $23M to replace enterprise surveys with AI-moderated video conversations

Conxai raises €5M to bring agentic AI to construction industry

Nvidia-backed Firmus targets $2bn ASX IPO after locking in $505m equity and $10bn Blackstone debt for its AI factory network

EIB lends PLD Space €30M to finish building its MIURA 5 rocket

neuroClues closes €10M Series A to bring its eye-tracking Parkinson’s diagnostic to European and US neurologists

Anthropic in talks to invest $200m in private equity venture to push Claude deeper into enterprise

Picsart launches “Earn with Picsart”, a monetisation programme with no invite list

Cheap cloud was built for stability, but that world is changing

Bill Ackman proposes buying Universal Music Group for €56B

OpenAI launched a safety fellowship

nFuse raises $2M to let small retailers order via WhatsApp

The Uffizi cyberattack should worry every museum in Europe

Anthropic signs biggest compute deal yet with Google and Broadcom as revenue run rate hits $30bn

Netflix launches Playground, a standalone games app for children aged eight and under

Iran threatens to destroy OpenAI’s $30bn Stargate data centre in Abu Dhabi

Google’s free offline dictation app just made paying $15 a month for Wispr Flow hard to justify

Spain’s Xoople raises $130m to build the data infrastructure AI needs to understand Earth

Argentine wildfire AI startup raises $2.7M after building a detection system that beats NASA’s alerts by 35 minutes