Rivia raises €13M to bring agentic AI to clinical trials
The Zurich-based startup, which previously raised €3M to unify fragmented trial data, has secured a larger round to build AI agents that actively manage the complex operational layer of running a cl...
Meta’s Manus AI agent arrives on your desktop to take on OpenClaw
Manus’s new desktop app can read, edit, and act on files and applications directly on a user’s machine. The launch puts Meta’s AI agent ambitions in direct competition with the open-source tool ...
Mastercard buys stablecoin firm BVNK for up to $1.8bn
For most of its fifty-year history, Mastercard has been, in essence, a message-passing network. A transaction happens; Mastercard’s rails carry the authorisation signal between issuer and acquirer i...
Finnish startup Elea & Lili raises €2.5M to replace the plastic
Polyacrylate is the synthetic crystal at the heart of every modern disposable nappy, is derived from petroleum, and it does not break down. It persists for centuries, leaching microplastics into soil ...
Credit Unions Prepare for the Day AI Agents Start Spending
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