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Apple Intelligence briefly goes live in China without approval, raising the spectre of regulatory penalties

Nexus raises $4.3M seed to let non-technical teams deploy enterprise AI agents

EnerVenue lands $300 million to bring NASA’s space batteries down to Earth

ALSO hits $1B valuation and signs DoorDash as its first major autonomous delivery partner

Austrian food-waste startup Afreshed acquires German rival Etepetete in DACH consolidation play

Oracle is cutting up to 30,000 employees to pay for AI data centres

myStoria raises $1.625M to support patients navigating complex reproductive health

French open-source orchestration platform Kestra raises $25M

Standing Ovation raises €30M to commercialise casein made from dairy waste

Airbnb launches private car transfers in 125+ cities

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Enkei raises a pre-seed round to scale a material made from construction waste that replaces marble and concrete

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Qover raises $12M from CIBC, and sets its sights on 100 million people protected by 2030

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Microsoft commits $1 billion to Thailand for cloud and AI infrastructure

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Empirical Ventures secures £10M from the British Business Bank to back UK ‘venture scientists

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How the Silicon Valley sneaker that was once worth $4 billion ended up selling for $39M

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RepAir Carbon opens a Luxembourg office to scale its electrochemical carbon capture tech across Europe

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Flipsnack and the shift toward motion-first business content with living visuals

How AI’s capital explosion signals opportunity but also reveals a critical need for measurable ROI and meaningful impact

From satellite ops to nordic launchpad

Rebellions closes $400M pre-IPO round at a $2.34B valuation

ScaleOps raises $130M to autonomously manage cloud and AI infrastructure

Midas raises $50M Series A to solve tokenised finance’s liquidity problem

Uber is acquiring Blacklane, the Berlin chauffeur platform backed by Sixt and Mercedes-Benz

Mainland Chinese tech firms are flooding into Hong Kong as the West tightens the door

UK fines Apple subsidiary for paying a sanctioned Russian streaming service through the App Store

Judge throws out Musk’s advertising boycott lawsuit against X’s former sponsors

Starcloud raises $170M at a $1.1B valuation to build data centres in orbit

Swiss startup miros raises €1.1M for bookable workpods

The largest AI survey ever reveals what humans actually want

TerraSpark raises €5M+ to beam solar power from orbit to Earth

Bluesky’s new Attie app uses AI to give you full control over your social feed

Finnish quantum unicorn IQM lands €50M from BlackRock

Mistral secures $830M from seven banks to build its own AI data centre

Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (23–29 March)

All 11 xAI co-founders have now reportedly left Elon Musk’s AI company

Meta’s new prescription Ray-Ban smart glasses are a distribution play, not a technology leap

Kandou AI raises $225 million to bet that copper can outlast the optical revolution

The class of 2025 is using AI in job interviews, and a startup industry is cashing in

Lucyd captures 44% Amazon market share in smart safety glasses category, positions for major retail expansion in 2026

Meta grants executives up to $921 million in stock options on the same day it lays off 700 workers

PaperShell secures €40.3M EU grant to build its first full-scale factory

SoftBank secures $40B bridge loan to fund its OpenAI bet

ActiveCampaign’s free trial lets you test AI-powered marketing automation before you commit

Keith raises £2M to become the UK’s most automated law firm

OpenAI backs a nine-month-old startup building swarms of AI agents at a $650 million valuation

Ysios Capital launches €100M fund to build biotech companies from Spanish science

Laigo Bio closes €17M seed to advance SureTACs

tozero launches Europe’s first industrial battery recycling plant

OpenAI shelves erotic ChatGPT after staff, investors, & advisors revolt

Blossom Health raises $20 million to put AI copilots alongside psychiatrists