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Moss, a European fintech platform using AI, raised €30m in Series C funding and achieved a €1bn valuation, becoming Europe's newest unicorn. The company previously raised €14m in Series B in 2021. Moss joins a growing cohort of European AI-backed finance startups attracting significant venture capital investment.
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5 August 2026
The biggest story today isn't any single breakthrough but a fundamental shift in how AI moves from labs into production. Sakana AI and Daiwa Securities are pushing their wealth management agents live, while Shopify reports AI search tripling orders quarter-over-quarter—proving that AI doesn't always cannibalize existing products if deployed thoughtfully. Anthropic is now designing custom chips to scale Claude beyond current partnerships, joining OpenAI and Meta in vertical integration. These moves signal an inflection point: the frontier AI companies are becoming infrastructure companies, controlling the full stack from silicon to applications because demand has outrun what Nvidia and cloud providers alone can supply.
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