NVIDIA invests $2 billion in Nebius
NVIDIA has agreed to invest $2 billion in Nebius Group, the Amsterdam-based AI cloud company that emerged from the wreckage of Yandex after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in a deal that pairs a su...
Endform raises €1.5M as faster AI-generated code puts new pressure
The Swedish testing startup has secured seed funding to take on the CI pipeline bottleneck in the age of AI-generated code. The code review has always had a bottleneck, not the code itself, but the wa...
EU lawmakers deal to ban AI non-consensual intimate deepfakes
A March 11 political agreement on AI Act amendments will add an explicit prohibition on non-consensual intimate AI-generated images, direct fallout from the Grok scandal. It took a scandal, a wave of ...
Elaia closes its third deep-tech seed fund at €134M
The Paris-based VC backed by Bpifrance and Université PSL has exceeded the €120M goal it set at first close in March 2024. When Elaia first raised its third deep-tech seed fund in March 2024, the t...
AIRMO raises €5M to put methane-sniffing satellites in orbit by 2027
The Berlin-based climate-tech startup has developed a micro-LiDAR and SWIR imager small enough to fly on a nanosatellite, and claims it can detect a methane leak the size of a leaking car from orbit. ...
WhatsApp launches parent-supervised accounts for users under 13
WhatsApp launched parent-supervised accounts for users under 13 on Wednesday, offering messaging and calling only with no ads.
The move introduces a controlled entry point for younger users on a platf...
AltStore PAL becomes first federated app marketplace
AltStore PAL announced support for the fediverse and launched its own Mastodon server. The company stated this makes the iOS alternative app store the first federated marketplace. The server allows de...
