The Amsterdam startup, founded in 2022, is building a single AI platform that handles customer discovery, direct ordering, and retention for independent food and beverage operators. seed + speed Ventures led the round; PeakBridge returned alongside ālt…
The Spanish propulsion startup, based at Castellón Airport, is the first Spanish space company selected for the European Innovation Council Accelerator. Its DARK system became the first hydrogen peroxide propulsion system flown in orbit in Europe, laun…
Google published a research blog post on Tuesday about a new compression algorithm for AI models. Within hours, memory stocks were falling. Micron dropped 3 per cent, Western Digital lost 4.7 per cent, and SanDisk fell 5.7 per cent, as investors recalc…
A Los Angeles jury has found Meta and Google liable for intentionally building addictive social media platforms that harmed a young woman’s mental health, awarding her $3 million in compensatory damages in what is the first trial verdict of its kind in…
A startup called Friending has launched a social platform built around a premise that sounds almost quaint in 2026: helping people make friends by meeting in person. The app, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, connects users by shared interests and geog…
Granola, the London-based AI meeting app that records conversations without dropping a bot into the call, has raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Danny Rimer at Index Ventures, with participation from Mamoon Hamid at Kleiner Perkins. The rou…
The world’s largest sporting goods retailer has turned seven of its European warehouses over to robots, and the early results suggest the machines are earning their keep. Decathlon announced on Tuesday that its partnership with Exotec, a French warehou…
Meta began cutting hundreds of jobs on Wednesday across Reality Labs, Facebook, recruiting, sales, and global operations, according to people familiar with the matter and LinkedIn posts from affected employees. The layoffs are the latest in a rolling s…
Last September, when OpenAI quietly released the Sora 2 app to the public, the discourse around it was not quiet at all. Commentators who had spent months watching the model’s preview clips, the golden retriever bounding through autumn leaves, the Toky…
The London startup, founded by the team behind Darwin, acquired by Mercer in 2016, has built an AI platform that ingests fragmented global benefits data from PDFs, insurance contracts, and vendor portals into a single intelligence layer. Notion Capital…