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Infineon is opening a €5 billion chip factory in Dresden. It is the EU Chips Act’s first major success.
Infineon Technologies is preparing to open its largest single investment, a €5 billion semiconductor factory on its Dresden campus…
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The world’s top-selling robot vacuum maker is eyeing a Hong Kong IPO. It also wants to build a hypercar.
Dreame Technology, a Chinese maker of robotic vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers, and pool cleaners, is considering a Hong Kong initial …
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Slovakia’s Nordics rebrands as Definic, raises €2.5 million to scale its vendor intelligence platform
Košice-based Nordics today announced that it has rebranded to Definic and closed a €2.5 million Seed round as it expands from a re…
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SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history. Japanese retail investors got $2.2 billion of it.
SpaceX begins trading on Nasdaq today under the ticker SPCX after raising $75 billion in the largest initial public offering ever …
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Germany’s NEURA Robotics raises up to €1.2 billion in Series C round to build Physical AI from Europe
NEURA Robotics, a Metzingen-based cognitive robotics startup and the creator of the Neuraverse, has announced a Series C funding r…
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Equal AI raised $30M to screen phone calls for Indians who get 20 spam calls a week
Equal AI, an Indian startup that built an AI assistant to answer phone calls on your behalf, has raised $30 million in a Series B …
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Gothenburg’s Arkeon closes €594.2k Seed round to boost precision in quantum chip production
Arkeon Technologies (Arkeon), a Gothenburg-based DeepTech startup focused on unlocking large-scale superconducting quantum computi…
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SpaceX’s IPO: ‘It shows us what we’re missing in Europe’
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Neura CEO on raising Europe’s biggest ever robotics round: ‘It’s not science fiction’
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The top investors behind Sifted’s France & Benelux 2026 leaderboard
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10 legaltechs to watch in Europe, according to VCs
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Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar’s video AI is built for India’s scale
Avataar AI's distilled video model is priced at $0.005 for every second of generation
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Equal AI raises $30M to screen calls so Indians don’t have to
Equal AI said that its AI-powered call assistant now has over a million monthly active users.
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Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything
Unlike humanoid robots designed around a fixed form — think Boston Dynamics — Theker's machines are built to be reconfigured.
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Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world
The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.
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Anthropic is spending $150 million to embed 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofits. No degree required.
Anthropic is donating $150 million to place 1,000 AI fellows inside nonprofit organisations across the United States. The programm…
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ShinyHunters breached 100+ companies through an unpatched Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day
Oracle warned customers on Thursday of a critical vulnerability in its PeopleSoft software that hackers have already exploited to …
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AI needs judgment, not a job description: Michael Ronis on the future of recruitment
Artificial intelligence has been one of the most influential forces shaping recruitment in a global talent war. The volume of data…
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SpaceX officially prices shares at $135 in the largest IPO ever
Wits its official share pricing announcement, SpaceX's IPO has begun.
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Oracle warns of security bug that hackers abused to breach 100+ companies
The tech giant warned of a security flaw that a cybercrime gang said it's exploiting as part of a mass-hacking campaign. Google sa…
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Bluesky launches group chats and pivots to communities as growth stalls at 44.8 million users
Bluesky launched group chats on Thursday and outlined a broader pivot toward community features, a strategic shift for a social ne…
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How companies train millions of workers when their products never stop shipping
The data on workforce development tells a contradictory story. 85% of companies plan to prioritize upskilling their workforce thro…
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SpaceX SPV investors won’t know their true holdings until post-IPO lock-ups lift
After SpaceX makes its public debut, lower-tier SPV investors face hidden fees, lengthy payout delays, and the risk of outright fr…
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Google DeepMind’s TacticAI can predict football plays 8 seconds before they happen. Palmeiras is the first to use it.
Google DeepMind built an AI that can predict football plays before they happen. TacticAI uses geometric deep learning to model pla…