Zendesk acquires Forethought in its biggest deal in two decades
Zendesk acquires Forethought in its biggest deal in two decades

The 2018 Startup Battlefield winner is joining Zendesk as the race to own agentic customer service accelerates When Forethought won the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield competition in 2018, ChatGPT was four years from existing. The company’s pitch, that …

Uber, Wayve, and Nissan are bringing robotaxis to Tokyo
Uber, Wayve, and Nissan are bringing robotaxis to Tokyo

The three-way MOU marks Uber’s first autonomous vehicle partnership in Japan, and adds Tokyo to a global rollout already targeting ten cities. Tokyo’s streets are, by common consensus, among the most demanding driving environments on Earth. Dense junct…

Endform raises €1.5M as faster AI-generated code puts new pressure
Endform raises €1.5M as faster AI-generated code puts new pressure

The Swedish testing startup has secured seed funding to take on the CI pipeline bottleneck in the age of AI-generated code. The code review has always had a bottleneck, not the code itself, but the wait. As test suites swell alongside faster developmen…

Samaipata launches €110M fund to back early-stage AI-native startups across Europe
Samaipata launches €110M fund to back early-stage AI-native startups across Europe

The pan-European VC firm has held its first close at €70M for Fund III, backed by Germany’s KfW, Spain’s SETT, and a network of family offices, with a mandate to find European companies building on the AI wave. Samaipata, the pan-European venture capit…

NVIDIA is reportedly building an enterprise AI agent platform
NVIDIA is reportedly building an enterprise AI agent platform

Sources tell Wired that Nvidia has been pitching ‘NemoClaw’ to Salesforce, Cisco, Google, Adobe, and CrowdStrike ahead of Jensen Huang’s keynote on Monday. NVIDIA has spent the past several years becoming the indispensable hardware backbone of the AI i…

Italy’s Mirai Robotics raises $4.2M to build autonomous vessels for the ‘blue economy
Italy’s Mirai Robotics raises $4.2M to build autonomous vessels for the ‘blue economy

A Puglia-based startup founded by the man behind aircraft maker Blackshape has closed a pre-seed round to build software-defined ships and maritime AI. The ocean, it argues, is the last major physical environment not yet governed by software. Mirai Rob…

Augur raises $15m from Plural to turn existing surveillance infrastructure into real-time intelligence
Augur raises $15m from Plural to turn existing surveillance infrastructure into real-time intelligence

A London startup founded by the creator of safety app Path is betting that the cameras and sensors already deployed across Europe’s transport hubs, stadiums, and power stations are gathering dust when they matter most. In the first week of February 202…

Augur raises $15m from Plural to turn existing surveillance infrastructure into real-time intelligence
Augur raises $15m from Plural to turn existing surveillance infrastructure into real-time intelligence

A London startup founded by the creator of safety app Path is betting that the cameras and sensors already deployed across Europe’s transport hubs, stadiums, and power stations are gathering dust when they matter most. In the first week of February 202…

Augur raises $15m from Plural to turn existing surveillance infrastructure into real-time intelligence
Augur raises $15m from Plural to turn existing surveillance infrastructure into real-time intelligence

A London startup founded by the creator of safety app Path is betting that the cameras and sensors already deployed across Europe’s transport hubs, stadiums, and power stations are gathering dust when they matter most. In the first week of February 202…

How an AI system beat experienced doctors at diagnosing rare diseases
How an AI system beat experienced doctors at diagnosing rare diseases

DeepRare, an agentic AI system integrating 40 specialised tools, outperformed medical specialists in identifying rare conditions in a head-to-head study published in Nature. For millions of people with rare diseases, the path to diagnosis is a labyrint…