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Car subscription company Finn becomes Germany’s newest unicorn
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How to invest when everything is moving too fast
TechCrunch's StrictlyVC evening in Los Angeles late last week brought together two of the more straight-talking investors working …
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Records broken as eight European startups raised $1bn+ rounds in 2026
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Startups are relocating the wrong person
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'Europe needs this revolution': How Revolut People is selling Silicon Valley's performance culture
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DeepMind handpicked this startup for its robotics accelerator. Now it’s raised an $11.7m seed round
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Walmart-backed Flipkart expands quick-commerce push as Amazon ramps up in India
Walmart-backed Flipkart has crossed 1,000 micro-fulfillment centers as Amazon accelerates its own quick-commerce push in India.
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India’s MoEngage bets that the future of marketing is millions of AI agents
The all-cash deal gives MoEngage access to technology that assigns AI agents to individual customers.
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Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero
Superhuman, which also has an AI detection tool as part of Grammarly, has snapped up GPTZero.
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After betting the firm on Anthropic, Menlo Ventures raises victorious $3B fund
Menlo has created a solid rep for itself as an AI investor, all based on one gutsy $750 million move in 2024.
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Klue says hackers stole credential from 2022 that led to customer data breaches
It's unclear why Klue had not revoked the credential after the limited pilot, which hackers then used to breach a system holding k…
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Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market
The app would be independent of Meta's other social media offerings, although sources told the NYT that those social sites could d…
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Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time
Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to c…
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Drones startup Stark confirms €500m raise backed by Sequoia and Founders Fund
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Why Europe is rebuilding its tech stack
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Andy Burnham was Manchester tech’s ‘hype man’. Will he be the same for Britain?
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Steam Machine launches with £879 price tag as Valve cites component costs
Valve said the cost of its PC-console hybrid reflects a broader trend of component costs rising over time.
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What Brexit got wrong — and right — for UK startups
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How global hiring became a growth strategy for European business
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Micron and Anthropic sign a multi-year AI memory supply deal
The chipmaker will supply high-bandwidth memory, DRAM, and SSDs for Claude’s data centres, run Anthropic’s models internally, and …
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Five Eyes alliance warns frontier AI cyber threats are ‘months’ away
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has issued a joint warning that the next generation of artificial intelligence is poised to su…
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IBM joins OpenAI’s cyber program to bring frontier AI into enterprise security
IBM has signed up to OpenAI’s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, a tie-up the company says will put frontier AI models to work inside…
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BP, Walmart and 7-Eleven sued over AI-set petrol prices in California
A group of California drivers has sued six of the country’s biggest fuel retailers, accusing them of using an artificial-intellige…