Europe is pouring tens of billions of public money into VC. The hard part is making it work
Europe is pouring tens of billions of public money into VC. The hard part is making it work

The European Investment Fund is raising a €15 billion fund of funds called ETCI 2 that aims to unlock up to €80 billion in scaleup funding across Europe. Germany’s WIN initiative is targeting €12 billion by 2030. France’s Tibi programme has pledged €7 …

Zoom partners with Sam Altman’s World to verify that meeting participants are actually human
Zoom partners with Sam Altman’s World to verify that meeting participants are actually human

Summary: Zoom has partnered with World, Sam Altman’s biometric identity company, to let meeting participants verify they are human using World’s Deep Face technology, which cross-references iris-scanned biometric profiles with live video to display a “…

Uber launches $5 doorstep return pickups for Uber Eats purchases across 5,000 US cities
Uber launches $5 doorstep return pickups for Uber Eats purchases across 5,000 US cities

Uber has launched a service that sends a gig worker to your door to collect items you want to return to a retailer, for $5 a pickup. The feature, called Return a Package, is available in the Uber Eats app across nearly 5,000 US cities and works with ni…

Intel’s new Wildcat Lake chips take aim at the MacBook Neo with AI as the differentiator
Intel’s new Wildcat Lake chips take aim at the MacBook Neo with AI as the differentiator

Intel has launched its Core Series 3 processors, codenamed Wildcat Lake, in what amounts to a direct response to the MacBook Neo. The new chips, announced on 16 April, target the same budget laptop segment that Apple redefined last month with its $599 …

Dropbox brings its files, Dash search, and Reclaim calendar into ChatGPT with three new apps
Dropbox brings its files, Dash search, and Reclaim calendar into ChatGPT with three new apps

The storage company is launching a Dropbox file app, a Dropbox Dash enterprise search app, and a Reclaim AI calendar app inside ChatGPT, letting users access, save, and act on their work without leaving the AI interface. The move is the latest sign tha…

DeepL launches real-time voice-to-voice translation in 40+ languages
DeepL launches real-time voice-to-voice translation in 40+ languages

The Cologne-based translation company best known for its text tools has unveiled a full voice product suite covering meetings, conversations, group settings, and an API for enterprise integration. A live demo in Seoul showed one-to-two sentence delays,…

Samsung turns its smart home into a remote care system for ageing families
Samsung turns its smart home into a remote care system for ageing families

In short: Samsung has updated SmartThings with family care features that use connected appliances and wearables to monitor elderly relatives remotely, including fall detection via robot vacuum camera, cognitive decline screening through behavioural pat…

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance

In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs GPT-5.4’s 57.7%), multi-agent coordination for hours-long workflows, 3x higher image resolution, and …

Athena launches FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing execution systems
Athena launches FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing execution systems

In short: Athena Technology Solutions, a Fremont-based MES integrator with roughly 120 employees, has launched FabOrchestrator, an agentic AI platform for manufacturing that automates reporting, support tickets, system modelling, and code generation fo…

Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface
Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant turns Creative Cloud into a single conversational interface

Adobe launched the Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational agent that orchestrates tasks across Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Illustrator, Express, and Frame.io using natural language. Previously codenamed Project Moonlight, it enters public beta in c…