Google Maps uses Gemini to write captions for your photos
Paladin acquires ICT in €60M push to dominate European ITAD
Joby and Air Space Intelligence team up to manage US electric air taxi skies
HexemBio raises $10.4M for a stem cell rejuvenation therapy
Trump’s FY27 budget would cut $700M from CISA and kill election security
Medialister opens editorial media marketplace to AI Agents with MCP server
Hermeus raises $350M at a $1B valuation to build autonomous hypersonic fighters
Natter raises $23M to replace enterprise surveys with AI-moderated video conversations
Conxai raises €5M to bring agentic AI to construction industry
Nvidia-backed Firmus targets $2bn ASX IPO after locking in $505m equity and $10bn Blackstone debt for its AI factory network
EIB lends PLD Space €30M to finish building its MIURA 5 rocket
neuroClues closes €10M Series A to bring its eye-tracking Parkinson’s diagnostic to European and US neurologists
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Bill Ackman proposes buying Universal Music Group for €56B
Spain’s Xoople raises $130m to build the data infrastructure AI needs to understand Earth
WHOOP raises $575m at $10.1bn valuation, signals IPO ahead
Nvidia’s $2 billion Marvell bet is not an investment. It is a toll booth.
OpenAI buys TBPN, Silicon Valley’s favourite tech talk show, in its first media acquisition
Amazon is in talks to buy Globalstar for $9 billion
Two ex-McKinsey founders raise $4.1M from Seedcamp to give boards an AI analyst that monitors corporate reputation in real time
Anthropic signs biggest compute deal yet with Google and Broadcom as revenue run rate hits $30bn
Netflix launches Playground, a standalone games app for children aged eight and under
Salesforce gives Slackbot 30 new AI powers, and a strategy that looks a lot like Microsoft’s
