DeepSeek to brief UN Security Council on AI risks this week, Reuters reports
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FintechOS raises $28M in equity and debt after turning profitable
FintechOS, a London-based company founded in Romania that sells AI software to banks and insurers, has raised $28M in a…
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Spott raises $21M Series A led by Balderton for its AI platform for recruitment agencies
Spott, a Leuven-based startup that sells recruitment agencies an AI-native applicant tracking system and CRM, has…
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Biolevate raises €30M Series A and opens Boston office for its life sciences AI
The Paris-based company Biolevate, which develops AI automation for use in regulated life sciences, has raised €30m in…
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Morphotonics raises more than €40M to scale waveguide manufacturing for AI glasses
Morphotonics, a Brainport-based manufacturer of large-area nanoimprint lithography equipment, has raised over €40…
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Jet2 signs multi-year deal with Adobe to personalise holidays with agentic AI
Jet2, the UK’s largest tour operator and, by its own count, its third-largest airline, has signed a multi-year…
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Finnish AI cloud company Verda raises $189M and it is now the latest unicorn in Europe
Verda, an AI cloud company headquartered in Helsinki and previously called DataCrunch, has raised $189M to increase its…
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Palantir, Goldman Sachs and One Peak alumni raise €5M pre-seed round to build a tech-native audit firm
For two decades, the standard way to modernize auditing has been to build software and sell it to auditors. Benford has…
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Nvidia is buying SB Energy stock at 90% of its IPO price
Nvidia is buying a further $1.5B of SB Energy shares at 90% of the price of the data centre developer’s coming US…
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OpenAI asks Washington to lead a global AI standards push
OpenAI has called on the United States to lead an international effort on standards for advanced AI, beginning with…
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California will fine creators $5,000 a post for hidden political ads
“I was hearing from people in the campaign world that there’s this new strategy of paying political influencers to post…
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AI model costs are pushing startups towards cheaper open weigh
Harvey’s gross margin fell from about 50% at the start of this year to minus 50% by June as customer usage of its AI…
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Hyundai’s answer to the EV slowdown is building tens of thousands of robotaxis
Hyundai will build tens of thousands of Ioniq 5 robotaxis for Waymo at its plant in Georgia, chief executive Jose Munoz…
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Corridor launches with $25m to fix health benefits for small businesses
“For decades, small businesses have been sold the leftovers of the health insurance market,” said Nikhil Aggarwal,…
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The state of the American advertiser
American advertisers are operating in a media environment with more channels, more data, and more technology than ever…
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Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse and accuses Perplexity of misleading a court
Amazon fought AI shopping agents on two fronts on Monday. It blocked Muse, Meta’s new AI assistant, from Amazon.com. It…
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Volvo names Klaus Zellmer as chief executive
Volvo Cars has appointed Klaus Zellmer, chairman of the board of management at Skoda Auto, as president and chief…
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Amazon puts another $1.9bn into its delivery partner programme for 2027
“Specifics will vary by DSP and geography, as each DSP determines how best to invest in their business and teams,”…
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Dragos closes its NetRise and runZero deals as Accenture takes control
“It’s about whether the lights stay on and the water stays safe when an adversary attacks,” said Dmitri Alperovitch,…
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Amber Electric raises €49m to take home battery automation to Europe
“We’ve built a leading energy automation platform in Australia, and this investment gives us the backing to build on…
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Bending Spoons opens a Warsaw office after 50,000 Polish applications
“We’ve received around 50,000 applications from Poland so far this year, more than twice as many as the whole of 2025,”…
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A Microsoft scientist called AI training the largest theft of labor
A 92-page brief unsealed on Thursday opens by quoting the same Microsoft employee twice. Dr Brent Hecht, the company’s…
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Five makers, one laptop: Googlebook pre-orders open from $899
Pre-orders for the Googlebook opened on Monday, starting at $899, with the first ones reaching shops in the United…
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The EU will rate data centres on energy and water from 2027
Europe’s data centers are to be graded on how much energy and water they use, under a rating scheme proposed on Monday…
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A single git trick beat the safety lock on four AI coding agents
The AI industry already knew attackers could poison plugin marketplaces. Its answer was to lock every plugin to one…
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Spain’s prime minister thinks the AI industry’s safety warnings are partly a fundraising strategy
“La autorregulación no funciona.” Self-regulation does not work, Pedro Sánchez told employers and union officials at…
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Oura’s IPO seeks $2.2bn, and 73% of it goes to existing shareholders
Oura spent the first nine months of its financial year buying its own shares back from its investors. On Monday it…
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The Vatican is turning its AI campaign into permanent machinery this week
AI4Peace, a symposium on artificial intelligence and conflict, opened on Monday at the Pontifical Lateran University in…
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London’s Unit1 raises £20M to take avatar concerts on tour
Unit1 Studio has raised £20M to stage concerts performed by digital recreations of musicians, in an oversubscribed…
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Freehand names Krshna Prashant as first marketing lead
Freehand is the company whose autonomous AI Teams manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 enterprises. It has…
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The ECB will invest in tokenised securities, and settle the trades on its own new rail
The European Central Bank is preparing to put some of its own money into tokenized securities, moving from building the…
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Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Google €403M over location data
Google has been fined €403M, or about $463M, by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission over the way it handled users’…
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The US has proposed an AI incident alert system to China
The United States has proposed that Washington and Beijing notify each other of AI incidents serious enough to qualify…
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ShinyHunters says it hijacked Cl0p’s dark web leak site
On the night of Friday, September 18, the Tor leak site that the Cl0p ransomware gang used to name and pressure its…
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The White House will not say what Trump’s AI Force is
Two days after Donald Trump announced plans for an “AI Force” and an AI czar, the White House has not clarified whether…
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SoftBank is reportedly raising about $11bn in bonds to cover its next OpenAI payment
SoftBank Group has launched a bond sale of roughly $11bn, comprising $10bn in senior unsecured dollar notes and an…
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