Berlin’s Kuro collects €10M to automate construction’s back office
The Berlin ConTech startup says six of its twelve customers rank among the largest contractors in the German-speaking market.
Deepslate lands €77M for speech models that never leave the EU
Deepslate's end-to-end speech models cut the text round trip and keep European voice data inside EU data centers.
Headline bets €400M that Europe’s next AI giants stay in Europe
The earliest institutional backer of Mistral has raised €400M for European AI, betting the continent's founders no longer need to…
Nebius folds in Inferize to chase the GPU idle-time tax
Nvidia-backed Nebius is buying Israel's stealthy Inferize to squeeze idle GPUs out of its Token Factory inference service.
Anthropic’s IPO filing ties a $42B lifeline to Broadcom
Anthropic's IPO filing shows Broadcom will lend the AI lab up to $42B, deepening a circular financing loop regulators are…
Three VCs debate the pace of AI-era venture spending
Benchmark and Scale investors weigh $10B AI acquisitions, seed-stage risk and a faster venture market.
What Europe’s university venture engine can learn from Asia
UnternehmerTUM's chief compares how Munich and Singapore turn academic research into companies that scale.
Why dual-use defense tech stalls between lab and market
An NUS defense innovation professor explains why good defense technology so often fails to leave the lab.
Mandiant founder’s Armadin banks $255.5M for AI offense
The Palo Alto cybersecurity startup has raised a Series B at a valuation above $2.5B, seven months after leaving stealth.
Rogue agents put OpenAI and Anthropic in the FTC’s sights
The US regulator is preparing civil demands as it examines whether AI agents have harmed consumers.
