Spotify and Netflix are paying Jay Shetty up to $100 million to take his podcast off YouTube
Meta is charging for its AI chatbot for the first time, starting at $7.99 a month
ElevenLabs is bringing Stan Lee back from the dead with AI voice cloning and digital cameos
Spotify now lets listeners clip and share moments from any podcast
France’s startup scene is falling behind the US and Europe, and AI is both the cause and the cure
Chile’s Atacama desert is becoming the world’s biggest battery farm
Cognition just raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, and 90% of its own code is written by its AI
Dutch police seized 800 servers used by Russian hackers to attack Europe
Talkdesk wants its AI agents to call your customers before they call you
Daylight expands MDR into Claude Enterprise to address emerging AI security risks
NATO just formalised cybersecurity partnerships with Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and ESET
Zendesk hires serial enterprise CMO Tifenn Dano Kwan as it bets everything on AI agents
Capchase raises $200 million to replace the banks slowing down enterprise tech deals
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Stord raises $250 million to give independent brands the shipping speed they need to compete with Amazon
Airis Labs comes out of stealth with $60M and a video-intelligence pitch to defence agencies
Female-founded climate-tech Mykor lands €4.6M to scale mycelium insulation panels
Airbnb leads a $58M Series C in WeRoad and hires its CEO to run hotels
Avrea raises $4.7M to fix CI/CD before AI coding breaks it
Paris preventive-health startup Lucis raises $20M Series A four months after seed
Finland’s Quanscient raises €10M to build a quantum- and AI-native simulation platform
Intel is bringing a chip to every computing category at Computex. The last time it could do that, it was the company everyone was trying to catch.
Meta missed mobile. It is building the operating system for humanoids
Nebius paid $643 million for 20 people because inference is where the money is
