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Spanish VC Samaipata raises €70M for new AI-native fund
The pan-European VC firm has held its first close at €70M for Fund III, backed by Germany’s KfW, Spain’s SETT, and a network of family offices, with a mandate...
The open-source AI red-teaming tool used by Fortune 500 companies is now part of OpenAI
The acquisition of Promptfoo, which counts more than 125,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies among its users, is OpenAI’s most direct move yet into AI application security. Its...
Honor’s Robot phone is real, and coming later this year
The camera nods, dances to music, and tracks faces. The rest of the specs are a secret. Something unusual happened at Mobile World Congress this year. A device sat...
OpenAI’s robotics chief quits over the Pentagon deal
Caitlin Kalinowski spent 16 months building OpenAI’s physical AI programme. On Saturday, she said the company moved too fast on something too important. The week that began with Anthropic...
Unmasking the illusion of safety online
The global cost of cybercrime surpasses billions of dollars annually, with phishing/spoofing, personal data breaches, and extortion accounting for a significant share of losses. According to Cordell Robinson, CEO...
OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 sets new records on professional benchmarks
The new model introduces native computer use, a 1-million-token context window, and a reworked tool-calling system. Whether it actually holds off Anthropic and Google is less clear. OpenAI is...
Accenture buys Speedtest and Downdetector in $1.2B deal
Global consulting and technology services firm Accenture has agreed to acquire Ookla, the Seattle-based network intelligence company best known for Speedtest and Downdetector, in a deal valued at $1.2...
Antiverse raises $9.3M Series A to scale AI-driven antibody
Cardiff-based Antiverse, a biotechnology company developing AI-powered therapeutic antibody discovery tools, has closed a $9.3 million Series A financing to expand its computational platform and advance lead programmes toward...
Tangled raises €3.8M from byFounders and GitHub’s ex-CEO
Tangled, a Finland-linked code collaboration platform, has closed a €3.8 million seed round aimed at scaling its decentralised Git collaboration network and positioning the company as a European alternative...
Opinion: Your digital product is global from day one
In 2024, over 250 class action lawsuits were filed under a US federal law passed in 1988 to protect VHS rental records. The Video Privacy Protection Act was originally...
