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Apple Intelligence briefly goes live in China without approval, raising the spectre of regulatory penalties
Nexus raises $4.3M seed to let non-technical teams deploy enterprise AI agents
EnerVenue lands $300 million to bring NASA’s space batteries down to Earth
ALSO hits $1B valuation and signs DoorDash as its first major autonomous delivery partner
Austrian food-waste startup Afreshed acquires German rival Etepetete in DACH consolidation play
Oracle is cutting up to 30,000 employees to pay for AI data centres
myStoria raises $1.625M to support patients navigating complex reproductive health
French open-source orchestration platform Kestra raises $25M
Standing Ovation raises €30M to commercialise casein made from dairy waste
Airbnb launches private car transfers in 125+ cities
Enkei raises a pre-seed round to scale a material made from construction waste that replaces marble and concrete
Qover raises $12M from CIBC, and sets its sights on 100 million people protected by 2030
Microsoft commits $1 billion to Thailand for cloud and AI infrastructure
Empirical Ventures secures £10M from the British Business Bank to back UK ‘venture scientists
How the Silicon Valley sneaker that was once worth $4 billion ended up selling for $39M
RepAir Carbon opens a Luxembourg office to scale its electrochemical carbon capture tech across Europe
Flipsnack and the shift toward motion-first business content with living visuals
How AI’s capital explosion signals opportunity but also reveals a critical need for measurable ROI and meaningful impact

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