• Why 2026 will be the year of governed cybersecurity AI

    Why 2026 will be the year of governed cybersecurity AI
    The global average cost of a data breach fell to USD 4.44 million in 2025, a 9 per cent drop and the first decline in five years, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report. On the surface, that looks like progress. Security AI and automation are finally paying dividends, compressing detection timelines and […]
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  • Clarity as strategy

    Clarity as strategy
    CuraeSoft, a software studio developing practical solutions for professional services firms, observes that among growing consultancies and service-based organizations, many leaders operate without clear visibility into the profitability of their work. Given this context, the company developed coAmplifi Pro, a platform designed to bring greater transparency to service delivery and help organizations connect operational activity […]
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  • NVIDIA is reportedly building an enterprise AI agent platform

    NVIDIA is reportedly building an enterprise AI agent platform
    Sources tell Wired that Nvidia has been pitching ‘NemoClaw’ to Salesforce, Cisco, Google, Adobe, and CrowdStrike ahead of Jensen Huang’s keynote on Monday. NVIDIA has spent the past several years becoming the indispensable hardware backbone of the AI industry. According to a new report, it may now be trying to become the software backbone too. […]
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  • Anthropic sues the US government over its Pentagon blacklist

    Anthropic sues the US government over its Pentagon blacklist
    The AI company filed two federal lawsuits on Monday, arguing the Trump administration’s ‘supply chain risk’ designation is unconstitutional retaliation for protected speech. There is a phrase in Anthropic’s court filing that sets the tone for everything that follows: “Anthropic turns to the judiciary as a last resort to vindicate its rights and halt the […]
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  • Meta has bought Moltbook, the AI agent ‘social network’

    Meta has bought Moltbook, the AI agent ‘social network’
    Do you remember the name? Moltbook, the vibe-coded platform, famous for an unsecured database that let humans impersonate AI agents, is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs. Moltbook was, in many ways, a product of chaos. Its code was written almost entirely by an AI assistant. Its security was so porous that anyone with basic technical knowledge […]
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  • Google brings Gemini deeper into Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive with new beta features

    Google brings Gemini deeper into Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive with new beta features
    A wave of Workspace updates puts Gemini inside Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, with a benchmark result Google is happy to shout about. The blinking cursor is Google’s enemy. Every time a Workspace user stares at an empty document, spreadsheet, or slide deck and reaches for a different tool to get unstuck, that’s a moment […]
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  • Legal AI platform Legora raises $550m at a $5.55bn valuation

    Legal AI platform Legora raises $550m at a $5.55bn valuation
    The Stockholm-born company has gone from zero to $5.55 billion in under two years, and it is not slowing down. There is a standard piece of mythology in the legal profession: that lawyers are resistant to technology, constitutionally sceptical of change, and will be the last white-collar workers standing when the AI reckoning comes. Max […]
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  • Anchr raises $5.8m to automate food distribution’s manual back office

    Anchr raises $5.8m to automate food distribution’s manual back office
    Anchr has raised a $5.8 million pre-seed round to automate the back office of America’s food distribution industry, a sector still running on phone calls, spreadsheets, and manual order entry. On any given morning, the operations team at a mid-size food distributor might spend hours logging orders from restaurant clients, received by email, text, voicemail, […]
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  • Swiss startup Seprify raises €13.4M to replace titanium dioxide with cellulose

    Swiss startup Seprify raises €13.4M to replace titanium dioxide with cellulose
    Swiss startup Seprify has raised €13.4 million to scale a cellulose-based alternative to one of the most widely used, and increasingly banned, industrial whiteners on the planet. IKEA is backing it. Somewhere in Southeast Asia, a small beetle called Cyphochilus produces the whitest surface found in nature, not through pigment, but through the microscopic structure […]
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  • Breakout Ventures closes $114m Fund III to back AI-powered science startups

    Breakout Ventures closes $114m Fund III to back AI-powered science startups
    The San Francisco firm has closed its third fund at $114 million, its largest to date, betting that AI and biology are now inseparable, and that the founders who understand both will build the companies that matter most. Lindy Fishburne started Breakout in a somewhat unusual place: inside the Thiel Foundation, running a grant programme […]
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  • Yann LeCun just raised $1bn to prove the AI industry has got it wrong

    Yann LeCun just raised $1bn to prove the AI industry has got it wrong
    The Turing Award winner left Meta four months ago convinced that large language models are a dead end. Today he announced $1.03 billion in seed funding, Europe’s largest ever, to build something different. In November 2025, Yann LeCun walked into Mark Zuckerberg’s office and told his boss he was leaving. He had spent twelve years […]
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  • Mantle8 secures €2.06M EU grant to scale natural hydrogen tech

    Mantle8 secures €2.06M EU grant to scale natural hydrogen tech
    A €2.06 million EU grant gives the Grenoble deep-tech startup non-dilutive runway to industrialise a four-component technology platform, and moves it one step closer to its first commercial drilling campaign. Fourteen months after closing a €3.4 million seed round backed by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Kiko Ventures, Mantle8 has secured a second source […]
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  • BMW Group brings humanoid robots to Germany

    BMW Group brings humanoid robots to Germany
    The automaker has launched a pilot at its Leipzig plant using Hexagon Robotics’ AEON humanoid. The move follows a successful 11-month run in the US with Figure AI’s robots, and arrives just as the production chief who championed the programme prepares to take the top job. A new colleague has arrived on the shop floor […]
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  • The Oberlo veterans taking on Europe’s restaurant supply chain raise €20M

    The Oberlo veterans taking on Europe’s restaurant supply chain raise €20M
    Lithuanian food marketplace Saltz pulls in a €20M Series A backed by the EBRD, Inovo, Lifeline, and a roster of Baltic tech founders, to digitalise how restaurants across Europe source their ingredients. When Andrius and Tomas Šlimas sold their dropshipping platform Oberlo to Shopify in 2017, they could have sat out the next decade comfortably. […]
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  • Escape raises $18M to replace pen-testers with AI agents

    Escape raises $18M to replace pen-testers with AI agents
    The timing is not coincidental. In October 2025, Escape published research that scanned more than 5,600 publicly deployed applications built with vibe coding platforms, tools like Lovable, Base44, and Bolt.new that let non-developers build and ship apps by describing what they want in plain English. The results were stark: over 2,000 high-impact vulnerabilities, hundreds of […]
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