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a16z backs Snapp with 4.6M for real-time sports AI
The Caviar co-founder's new startup pitches a sports-specific AI that it says…
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Five UK startups pick up eight patents from corporate giants
A competition hands young British companies licences to telecom and automotive patents…
OpenAI calls itself a catalyst as European founders fear the app layer
A London developer event reframes the model giant as a partner to…
Groq hunts an $8B mark after its valuation reset in August
The Nvidia-backed inference cloud is seeking a Series B more than double…
MakeMyTrip buys into ride pooling to chase the daily commute
India's largest online travel group takes a majority stake in Quick Ride,…
HUMAIN absorbs CNTXT to sell AI into Saudi enterprises
The PIF-backed AI champion buys a cloud and data services firm to…
Construction robotics funding tops $1.6B in a single year
Crunchbase data shows venture capital pouring into machines that fill the labour…
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Mistral’s Arthur Mensch on why Europe needs its own frontier models
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Journify doubles down on ad signals with a $12M round
Journify raised a $12M Series A at four times its prior valuation to get cleaner purchase signals into the ad platforms brands already buy on.
Firmly raises $15M to wire merchant checkout into AI agents
Firmly raised a $15M Series A to give merchants one connection that puts their catalogue and checkout inside every AI…
Shield AI agrees to buy radar maker Echodyne for about $5.3B
Shield AI agreed to pay up to $5.3B for Kirkland radar maker Echodyne, backing the deal with a $2.5B raise…
Releaf turns city leaf litter into paper the mills already run
Releaf turns fallen leaves from French and German cities into paper fibres, and has signed three of France's largest paper groups along with brands like Chanel and Samsung.
Tekever opens a Nordic defence drone base in Odense as EIFO invests
Portugal's Tekever is standing up operations in Odense, with Denmark's EIFO joining the closing of its $580M round.
Ant Group packs a million-token window into Ling-3.2-flash
Ant Group released Ling-3.2-flash, a native multimodal model with 560 billion parameters, a one-million-token context window and free access for…
