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Earlybird closes €360M Fund VIII, its largest ever, with a new perpetual ownership model and a deeptech-first thesis
Exclusive: Synaps raises $3.6M to build an AI design canvas for architects that could challenge AutoCAD
LG Electronics and Nvidia are in talks on robotics, AI data centres, and mobility
China threatens the EU with broad retaliation if Huawei and ZTE are banned from European networks
mbiomics raises €30M Series A to take its microbiome cancer co-therapy into clinical trials
AI recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3m seed to match AI engineers with the companies that need them most
GM brings Google Gemini to four million vehicles in one of the largest in-car AI deployments yet
Cognizant to acquire AI infrastructure specialist Astreya for $600 million
Spain’s Solaria raises €300m to power data centres with solar and battery storage
All3 raises $25m to automate construction with legged robots and AI design software
Meta found in breach of EU law for failing to keep children off Facebook and Instagram
EU and Parliament fail to agree on AI Act changes after 12 hours of talks, pushing deal to next month
Amadeus agrees to buy IDEMIA’s public security unit for $1.2 billion
South Africa used AI to write its AI policy. The citations were fake.
OpenAI called the growth report clickbait. The market disagreed by tens of billions of dollars.
The founder of Scholly sold his scholarship app to Sallie Mae. He says they fired him for asking why they were selling students’ data.
Musk told the jury the OpenAI case is simple. The consequences of his testimony are anything but.
Google signed the Pentagon’s classified AI deal and walked away from its drone swarm contest on the same day. The line it drew is not the one its employees asked for.

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