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• Wonderful raises $150M Series B to scale its enterprise AI agents across 30 countries

  12-03-2026 13:31 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Amsterdam-headquartered startup has been out of stealth for just eight months, but it already has 350 staff, production deployments across four continents, and a valuation reportedly approaching $1.7 billion There is a problem that every major enterprise AI deployment eventually runs into: the gap between a convincing demo and a working system in production. […]
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• Zendesk acquires Forethought in its biggest deal in two decades

  12-03-2026 13:10 via thenextweb.com
  
  The 2018 Startup Battlefield winner is joining Zendesk as the race to own agentic customer service accelerates When Forethought won the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield competition in 2018, ChatGPT was four years from existing. The company’s pitch, that AI could handle customer service conversations autonomously, was considered ambitious to the point of eccentricity. On Wednesday, Zendesk […]
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• Uber, Wayve, and Nissan are bringing robotaxis to Tokyo

  12-03-2026 12:59 via thenextweb.com
  
  The three-way MOU marks Uber’s first autonomous vehicle partnership in Japan, and adds Tokyo to a global rollout already targeting ten cities. Tokyo’s streets are, by common consensus, among the most demanding driving environments on Earth. Dense junctions, narrow lanes, complex signage, and a culture of precision that tolerates neither delay nor error make the […]
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• Neuramancer raises €1.7M to bring forensic AI to deepfake detection

  12-03-2026 12:41 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Bavarian startup is targeting insurance fraud first, and sees Europe’s push for explainable AI as a competitive edge Neuramancer AI Solutions GmbH has closed a €1.7 million pre-seed funding round to accelerate the commercialisation of its deepfake detection platform, with an initial focus on the insurance industry. The Bavarian startup, which rebranded from Neuraforge, […]
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• Cleafy raises €12M to stop bank fraud before it starts

  12-03-2026 12:28 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Milan cybersecurity firm’s Series B bets that predictive defence, not reactive detection, is how banks survive the AI fraud wave For more than a decade, Cleafy has been telling banks that waiting for fraud to happen before responding to it is a losing strategy. The Milan-based cybersecurity firm has now raised €12 million in […]
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• NVIDIA invests $2 billion in Nebius

  12-03-2026 12:17 via thenextweb.com
  
    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 substantial capital injection with a deep technical partnership aimed at deploying more than 5 gigawatts of NVIDIA-powered compute capacity by the […]
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• Endform raises €1.5M as faster AI-generated code puts new pressure

  12-03-2026 11:46 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 wait. As test suites swell alongside faster development cycles, engineering teams have increasingly found themselves staring at CI pipelines that […]
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• Chinese BCI startup Gestala raises $21.6M for non-invasive ultrasound brain tech

  12-03-2026 11:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  The startup, founded just two months before its raise, has secured China’s largest early-stage brain-computer interface round, heavily oversubscribed. Phoenix Peng has already built one brain-computer interface company. NeuroXess, his first venture, develops implantable BCI systems designed to restore communication and motor function for people with severe neurological conditions. His second company, Gestala, takes a […]
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• EU lawmakers deal to ban AI non-consensual intimate deepfakes

  12-03-2026 11:17 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 regulatory anger, and a coalition of 57 European Parliament members to get there,  but the EU’s landmark AI Act will now contain an […]
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• Elaia closes its third deep-tech seed fund at €134M

  12-03-2026 11:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  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 target was €120 million. The final figure has come in higher. The Paris-based venture capital firm has closed its DTS3 […]
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• AIRMO raises €5M to put methane-sniffing satellites in orbit by 2027

  12-03-2026 10:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  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. AIRMO, a Berlin and Luxembourg-based startup building space-based greenhouse gas monitoring technology, has closed a €5 million seed round to fund […]
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• Perplexity turns your Mac mini into a 24/7 AI agent

  12-03-2026 09:51 via thenextweb.com
  
  At its first developer conference, held in a former North Beach church, Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer, expanded its cloud agent to enterprise, opened up finance data tools, and staked its identity on a single claim: AI is the computer now. Two weeks after launching Perplexity Computer, a cloud-based AI agent that can orchestrate 20 frontier […]
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• Moz Pro free trial: professional AI SEO tools from $39/month

  12-03-2026 07:11 via thenextweb.com
  
  TL;DR Moz Pro now includes AI-powered keyword suggestions, an AI Visibility feature in open beta, and the industry-standard Domain Authority metric, all starting at $39/month on annual billing. A 7-day free trial is available on Standard and Medium plans, and a free Moz Community account gives permanent access to limited versions of Keyword Explorer and […]
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