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Australia says Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube are not complying with its child social media ban. Court action may follow.

China’s third-largest chip foundry just filed for a Hong Kong listing. The real story is the $5 billion fab behind it.

Corti’s new Symphony AI beats OpenAI and Anthropic on medical coding

Credibur hits €2B in debt facility volume on its private credit infrastructure platform

Pickmybrain raises $2.1M pre-seed to let experts monetise their knowledge through AI “Digital Brains”

Metafuels wins €1.92M Dutch grant to advance its Rotterdam e-SAF plant

Finnish neurowellness startup Audicin raises $1.9M

Decentraland just launched on the Epic Games Store.

The Multi-Hop Challenge: Understanding Indirect Blockchain Exposure in Compliance

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards just named 18 US tech firms as military targets. The age of the civilian data centre is over.

ByteDance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2.0 as it begins cautious global rollout

OpenAI closes record $122 billion round at $852 billion valuation, opens door to retail investors for the first time

South Korea turns to Russian naphtha as Asia’s chip supply chain feels the squeeze

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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