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

The Redmond, Washington startup, which already has an Nvidia H100 GPU operating in orbit and has trained the first AI model in space, is now building a Starship-class spacecraft designed to be the first orbital data centre cost-competitive with terrest…

The largest AI survey ever reveals what humans actually want
The largest AI survey ever reveals what humans actually want

Anthropic’s massive AI interview study isn’t really about technology. It’s the largest mirror ever held up to human desire. In December 2025, a software engineer in Mexico finished his workday early enough to pick up his children from school. A lawyer …

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

The Luxembourg startup is taking a deliberately earth-first approach: proving radio-frequency wireless power transmission on the ground before scaling to orbit. Its CTO ran ESA’s Solaris SBSP initiative until the agency paused it in 2024. Daphni led th…

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

The standalone app, built on the AT Protocol and powered by Anthropic’s Claude, was unveiled at the ATmosphere conference by Jay Graber, who stepped back from Bluesky’s CEO role specifically to build it. It’s currently invite-only, with a waitlist open…

Finnish quantum unicorn IQM lands €50M from BlackRock
Finnish quantum unicorn IQM lands €50M from BlackRock

The Helsinki-based company, which builds and sells full-stack superconducting quantum computers for on-premises deployment, disclosed the financing today. It was secured before the February announcement of IQM’s SPAC merger with Real Asset Acquisition …

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

The French AI company has secured the financing from a seven-bank consortium including BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, HSBC, and MUFG. The data centre at Bruyères-le-Châtel is expected to be operational in Q2 2026 and is part of a broader push for Eu…

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

A week that spanned semiconductor physics, orbital logistics, defence interceptors, and carob-based chocolate tells you something about the breadth of European and European adjacent capital right now. The dominant thread is not a single sector but a si…

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

Every co-founder Elon Musk recruited to build xAI has now reportedly left the company. Manuel Kroiss, who led the pretraining team, told people this month that he was departing. Ross Nordeen, described by Business Insider as Musk’s “right-hand operator…

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

Meta is preparing to launch two new Ray-Ban smart glasses models designed specifically for prescription wearers, according to a Bloomberg report published on Thursday. The models, codenamed Scriber and Blazer, were first spotted in Federal Communicatio…

tozero launches Europe’s first industrial battery recycling plant
tozero launches Europe’s first industrial battery recycling plant

The Munich startup’s demo plant at Chemical Park Gendorf in Bavaria processes 1,500 tonnes of battery waste a year and produces 100 tonnes of high-purity lithium carbonate, at costs the company says are twice as competitive as conventional miners. A fu…