Europe’s child safety laws require collecting the data its privacy laws forbid
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Rilian raises $17.5 million to bring agentic AI to sovereign defence
French satellite startup Univity raises €27M Series A
NeoCognition raises $40M seed to build AI agents that specialise through experience rather than pre-training
SoftBank wants to borrow $10 billion against its OpenAI stake. The spread tells you what the banks think.
Zapata Quantum raises $15 million after emerging from bankruptcy
Norway’s $2.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund posts a 1.9% loss in Q1 2026
Belfast’s Cloudsmith raises $72M Series C to secure the AI-generated software supply chain
Microsoft commits A$25 billion to Australia by 2029
Bain Capital seeks buyer for stake in Bridge Data Centres at $5 billion valuation
Decade Energy raises €22M to build power infrastructure for electric truck depots across Europe
Google just launched its agentic enterprise play, and it runs from chip to inbox
Google is in talks with Marvell to build custom AI inference chips as it diversifies beyond Broadcom
NVIDIA didn’t invest in Xanadu, but it made its CEO a billionaire anyway
