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Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (30 March – 5 April)
A week bookended by Mistral’s $830 million debt raise and a €1.1 million workpod pre-seed is a useful reminder of how wide the band of European ambition now runs....
Space data centres: SpaceX and Blue Origin race to orbit while scientists question the physics
The pitch is seductive in its simplicity: AI needs more power than terrestrial grids can supply, so move the data centres into orbit, where the sun never sets and...
Google has launched Gemma 4
Built from the same research as Gemini 3, the new family spans a 2B edge model that runs on a Raspberry Pi to a 31B dense model currently ranked...
Generare raises €20M to decode the 97% of microbial chemistry
The Paris techbio company screens microbial genomes to find molecules that evolution spent three billion years producing, and claims to have characterised more novel small molecules in 2025 than...
Decentraland launches on Epic Games Store and Android as metaverse goes multiplatform
The metaverse was supposed to be its own destination. You would put on a headset, enter a virtual world, and never need to think about the platform that brought...
Flipsnack’s Living Visuals signals the shift to immersive AI-driven content
Interactive content now generates 52.6% higher engagement than static formats, with users spending significantly longer interacting with dynamic media and showing higher recall for brands that use it. In...
Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (23–29 March)
A week that spanned semiconductor physics, orbital logistics, defence interceptors, and carob-based chocolate tells you something about the breadth of European and European adjacent capital right now. The dominant...
All 11 xAI co-founders have now left Elon Musk’s AI company
Every co-founder Elon Musk recruited to build xAI has now reportedly left the company. Manuel Kroiss, who led the pretraining team, told people this month that he was departing....
Lucyd Captures 44% Amazon Market Share in Smart Safety Glasses
Company establishes dominant position on world’s largest retail platform while building multi-channel distribution strategy Innovative Eyewear, Inc. (NASDAQ: LUCY) has emerged as the clear category leader in the rapidly...
OpenAI shelves erotic ChatGPT after staff, investors, & advisors revolt
OpenAI has shelved its plans to add an erotic “adult mode” to ChatGPT indefinitely, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, capping a five-month saga in which the feature was...
