SaaS on the Beach returns to Barcelona with a founder-only format
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France orders all government ministries to ditch Windows for Linux in digital sovereignty push
UK startup Altilium bags £18.5m to build Britain’s first commercial EV battery refinery
Estonia is the rare EU country opposing bans on children’s social media use
Police arrest 20-year-old after Molotov cocktail thrown at Sam Altman’s San Francisco home
Meow Technologies launches the first agentic banking platform for AI agents
Amazon’s AI tool matches shelter dogs and cats with adopters in the Protect Playtime campaign
CoreWeave signs multi-year Anthropic deal as nine of ten top AI model providers join its platform
SiFive raises $400m Series G at $3.65bn valuation in final round before IPO
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Eight, the Portuguese dating app,is raising a €3M seed round
Maeconomy raises €1.5M to give building materials a digital identity
Serve First secures €5.7M to scale its AI-driven customer experience platform beyond the UK
TikTok is spending €1B on a second Finnish data centre
Eclipse raises $1.3B across two funds to back the next era of physical industries
Narwhal Labs raises €22.9M and launches DeepBlue OS, an autonomous AI communication platform for regulated industries
AirHub raises €4.4M from Keen Venture Partners to scale drone operations software
Joby and Air Space Intelligence team up to manage US electric air taxi skies
EIB lends PLD Space €30M to finish building its MIURA 5 rocket
Anthropic in talks to invest $200m in private equity venture to push Claude deeper into enterprise
Gmail’s end-to-end encryption comes to mobile, a year after its web launch
