ElevenLabs’ CEO on hitting ~$600m revenue and outrunning the AI labs

Mark Cuban thinks Lovable and Replit can outlast the AI labs

Gyre Energy raises $1.3m to make the world’s cold stores work less when power costs most

Tissium raises €60M to take its sutureless nerve glue to the US

UN urges AI firms to come clean on their environmental costs

Lovable CEO says Europe’s AI startups have a confidence problem, not a talent problem

Bending Spoons prices IPO at up to $1.62 billion, targeting $19 billion Nasdaq valuation

Andrew Yang says the next startup wave isn’t building AI. It’s lowering the cost of living.

London Tech Week 2026: the AI billions, the US build-out, and a royal first

Anthropic is spending $150 million to embed 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofits. No degree required.

Bluesky launches group chats and pivots to communities as growth stalls at 44.8 million users

The most AI-obsessed companies spend $7,500 per employee per month. The median spends $11.

Legal AI startup Legora opens in Madrid, Milan, and Paris as it targets 700 European employees within a year

Vinted’s CEO says the US is an “enormous opportunity” as the $9B secondhand marketplace plots its Atlantic crossing

Berlin’s Stark is raising €300M at a €2.5B valuation. The kamikaze drone maker was founded 18 months ago.

Female-founded climate-tech Mykor lands €4.6M to scale mycelium insulation panels

This Zurich startup built a four-armed robot for space stations. Each astronaut hour it saves is worth $140,000.

Berlin’s Peec AI more than doubled revenue to $10M ARR in six months. Its product helps brands show up in ChatGPT.

The companies burning the most electricity are buying carbon credits from trees planted on abandoned mines

Spain’s Solaria raises €300m to power data centres with solar and battery storage

How Arpit Agrawal designed distribution ecosystems for 2.5 Billion consumers in emerging markets

Volkswagen’s MOIA and Uber begin testing self-driving ID. Buzz minibuses in Los Angeles

Anthropic signs biggest compute deal yet with Google and Broadcom as revenue run rate hits $30bn

Argentine wildfire AI startup raises $2.7M after building a detection system that beats NASA’s alerts by 35 minutes

A 27-year-old just raised $450 million to bet that AI’s future runs on nuclear power

OpenUp raises €20M to scale employee mental health platform

OpenAI open-sources teen safety policies for developers amid mounting lawsuits over ChatGPT deaths

Halter raises $220M at $2 billion valuation as virtual fencing for cattle goes global

Photoncycle raises €15M Series A to address Europe’s seasonal energy storage gap

Mycoverse raises €2.4M pre-seed to develop fungal-based biological crop protection

SheBuilds on Lovable’s 2026 call to create

Swedish pet insurtech Lassie raises $75M Series C after hitting $100M ARR

Tem raises $75 M to automate energy markets with AI-first platform

How Flippa Is Removing the Language Barrier from Global Deal-Making

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