DORA is reshaping how Europe’s financial sector thinks about compliance, and most firms still aren’t ready

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BBLeap raises €5M to bring plant-level precision spraying to arable farms globally

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Apollo.io acquires Pocus as it pushes to build an AI-native operating system for sales teams

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Perplexity has launched Perplexity Health

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Why the checkout is the most strategic product in your 2026 stack

VC Montis raises €50M to back Europe’s energy and industrial tech startups

Bluesky raises $100M Series B as new CEO takes charge

DoorDash launches Tasks

Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2 enters the top three AI image generators in the world

AI analytics agents need guardrails, not more model size

Your inbox is someone else’s business model. It doesn’t have to be

Austrian startup TACEO launches a network that runs sensitive computation without seeing the underlying data

Uber and Rivian strike $1.25bn robotaxi deal

Alpine Eagle is scaling counter-drone production as Europe races to close its air-defence gap

eternal.ag raises €8M to put autonomous harvesting robots into greenhouses

Parallel raises €20M to deploy AI agents for hospital administrative work across Europe

Ringtime raises €1.8M to send AI agents after blue-collar candidates

Reson8 raises €5M pre-seed funding to scale Europe’s first customisable speech AI

Facebook will pay TikTok and YouTube creators up to $3,000 a month to post Reels on its platform

GlobalComix raises $13M, acquires INKR, and appoints new CEO to build the infrastructure for global comics distribution

Homaio raises €3.6M to bring carbon allowance investing to retail

Multiply raises $9.5M to build AI agents that keep B2B ad campaigns from going stale

German biotech Kupando raises €10M more to take its innate immunity drug into the clinic

Rivia raises €13M to bring agentic AI to clinical trials

Meta’s Manus AI agent arrives on your desktop to take on OpenClaw

Mastercard buys stablecoin firm BVNK for up to $1.8bn

Finnish startup Elea & Lili raises €2.5M to replace the plastic

Ofiniti raises $6.8M to push its maritime fuel software into global shipping hubs

AWS names 12 European AI startups mapping oceans, diagnosing leukaemia, and predicting airstrikes

Former scaleup operators launch Operator Circle VC to back Europe’s next decacorn

Google, Meta, Amazon and 8 other tech giants sign global accord to share scam intelligence

Tracebit raises $20M to scale cloud honeypots as enterprise deception security grows

Upvest raises $125M at €640M valuation as European retail investing accelerates

Steward raises $5M to automate AML compliance for the $100B investment management market

Blify secures $2.1M to bring AI-native training to Slack and Teams

Partech closes its first impact fund at €300M to back Europe’s next generation of industrial and climate tech scaleups

Gecko Robotics lands $71M Navy deal to send wall-climbing robots inside warships

eYou raises €300K pre-seed to build a European social media platform with real-time fact-checking baked in

Nvidia turns OpenClaw into an enterprise platform with NemoClaw

Universal Robots and Scale AI launch the UR AI Trainer

Nscale signs 1.35GW Microsoft LOI for a West Virginia AI campus built around NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin GPUs

Restaurant tech startup Choice closes $7.1M Series A

Building the next wave of AI: Freddy del Barrio’s approach for a more human model of intelligent care

The most radical act in an age of outrage is to play

Gateway Global AI and the vision behind a voice-first infrastructure platform designed to simplify enterprise AI integration

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT cannibalises nearly 100,000 of their articles

Oxford Medical Simulation secures £5M growth financing