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TechCrunch 11 hours ago 20
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Nvidia expects its AI-related revenue growth to continue through next year despite rising GPU competition. He reiterated a forecast of 70% year-over-year revenue growth for next year. Nvidia’s guidance implies the company is positioning for sustained demand across AI labs and systems, including GPUs and data-center infrastructure, rather than expecting a slowdown.
The New Stack 13 hours ago 19 ● 9 sources
Mistral announced it raised a €3 billion Series D to expand open-weight frontier AI research, training compute, and infrastructure. The funding round adds $3.5 billion (US dollars) and values the company at over €21 billion post-money. As a result, Mistral says it will keep building the full stack—models plus compute and production tools—to reduce customer dependence on a single vendor.
TechCrunch 15 hours ago 23
Pocket FM doubled its annualized revenue run rate to $500 million while increasing its reliance on AI to produce audio storytelling at scale. AI now powers 93% of its overall catalog and is used to produce 99% of its new content. The company reports higher output (2.5 million hours a year) and improved 12-month revenue retention (76% vs 44% two years ago), and it is extending the AI-driven model into its microdrama app Pocket Saga and planned new formats.
SiliconANGLE 16 hours ago 19 ● 3 sources
Arlequin AI SAS announced it raised €28 million to develop a new AI model architecture built on topological neural networks rather than the graph-based networks used in most large language models. The Series A round totaled €28 million (about $32 million) and was exclusively backed by European investors, co-led by Redalpine and OTB Ventures. The funding will support scaling its platform and proprietary model, expanding its team, and accelerating commercial deployment across Europe and worldwide.
Trending Topics 16 hours ago 6
French investors via a pooled SPV bought into Moonshot AI, the China-based company behind the Kimi model family, ahead of its planned Hong Kong listing. The SPV put about €10 million into the last financing round, valuing Moonshot AI at a $30 billion pre-money level. This shifts capital toward open-weight model hosting in Europe and supports efforts to self-deploy Moonshot’s Kimi models with privacy-focused technologies.
Startups Magazine 13
Sage reported that Midlands SMEs are growing faster than the rest of the UK on profitability based on anonymised SME accounting data. East Midlands businesses saw profit growth of 18.8% in the year to Q2 2026, versus a 5.3% national average. The focus shifts to which regions and firms are sustaining stronger performance, alongside continued uptake of digital tools including AI.
TechCrunch 19 hours ago 46
Maven Robotics won a logistics automation deal by proposing end-to-end, warehouse-linked robotics after getting a factory visit, then expanded to running up to eight robots for 16 hours per day with 99% uptime.
Tech.eu 19 hours ago 48
Robutler raised $400,000 from ZAS Ventures to build a public software platform where apps are free and makers can remix and earn revenue shares. The funding came from ZAS Ventures’ Fund I and Fund II, its first institutional investment in Robutler. Robutler will expand its agent-discovery and trust-and-payments infrastructure, including its Web of Agents and related protocols for agent identity and messaging.
Trending Topics 19 hours ago 40
Bending Spoons signed a definitive deal to acquire Miro, a collaboration whiteboard platform, in an all-cash transaction.
Tech Funding News 20 hours ago 20 ● 2 sources
Bynario raised €2.1 million in pre-seed funding led by 360 Capital Partners to expand its autonomous security platform after its AI-assisted macOS bug report was reviewed and patched by Apple. The round totals €2.1 million. The startup will hire more engineers and build Atlas to scan code, cloud infrastructure, and software supply chains while focusing on confirming exploitable, reachable vulnerabilities instead of only flagging theoretical issues, marking a shift from AI bug hunting to full-stack vulnerability remediation.
The New Stack 20 hours ago 50
Andela analyzed 47,000 engineering job postings from Fortune 500 companies to identify emerging engineering roles shaped by AI adoption. More than 2,000 skills were mapped into 23 new job titles, with 53% of 1,832 AI/ML engineer postings combining skills from at least two established roles. Companies respond by replacing generic AI/ML titles with more specific, outcome-focused role descriptions tied to delivering AI through the software lifecycle.
SiliconANGLE 20 hours ago 11
CoreWeave launched a new Physical AI Field Engineering service that sends specialized engineers to work with enterprise engineering teams on AI projects. The service starts with a workshop and CoreWeave says it can cut testing times by between 17% and 35%. This shifts AI implementation toward using customer workflows and data end to end, from model training to compute setup and integration into operational tools.
Tech.eu 21 hours ago 37
Spain’s top-funded tech companies raised about €1.7 billion in H1 2026, with fundraising concentrated in a small set of leading firms. The ten biggest rounds together made up about 68% of the total funding. The mix of industries receiving the most capital included space (~€354.3M), travel (~€266.1M), medical/healthcare (~€195.1M), and artificial intelligence (~€150.9M), alongside funding across early and later stages and debt financing (~19%).
ChinaTalk 22 hours ago 39
Caijing Magazine published a profile of Unitree Robotics CEO Wang Xingxing describing strict cost control, tight management, and how the company handled its Spring Festival Gala appearances and IPO transition. Unitree requires expense reimbursements over 100 yuan to get Wang’s approval. The article depicts the result as high workplace pressure alongside product and marketing spending decisions that directly shaped output scale and public visibility as Unitree expanded sales and investment scrutiny after listing.
Tech Funding News 22 hours ago 5
IVEX raised a €5M Series A to bring its car safety-testing AI platform to the US and Asia. The platform cuts a single batch footage review from 400 hours to eight hours, with engineers supervising each result. As a result, IVEX plans to expand coverage of NCAP protocols and build regulatory and commercial presence in North America and Asia.
Tech.eu 1 day ago 17
Improbable launched Bolter, an AI-native business messaging app aimed at letting non-technical operators automate processes by describing them in plain text. It is seeding the effort with $10m of its own funding. The pivot to venture building in 2023 continues as Improbable’s third stealth exit and Bolter plans to seek external funding in later rounds.
Trending Topics 1 day ago 11
OKX opened two new product categories for European customers: pre-IPO perpetual futures referencing OpenAI and Anthropic and tokenized stocks covering about 100 markets.
IBM Research 1 day ago 29
IBM and Lockheed Martin are launching a Swiss quantum innovation hub at ETH Zurich, anchored by Switzerland’s first IBM Quantum System Two to be installed at CSCS in Lugano.
Tech Funding News 1 day ago 3 ● 3 sources
Arlequin AI, a Paris-based company, raised a €28 million Series A to scale an AI architecture that does not rely on large language models for analysis. The funding follows a €4.4 million seed round completed in June 2025, bringing Arlequin’s total funding to €32.4 million. The investment supports expansion plans and the continued rollout of a topological neural network approach that keeps results traceable and verifiable rather than using LLM-style probabilistic outputs.
Tech.eu 1 day ago 22 ● 3 sources
Arlequin AI raised €28 million in Series A funding to accelerate development of its topological neural network architecture and broaden international deployment. The round totals €28M, co-led by redalpine and OTB Ventures with Bpifrance’s Defence Innovation Fund participating. It will expand the international team building and training proprietary models, support commercial rollout, and add London and Berlin offices plus an AI lab in Silicon Valley soon.
Tech.eu 1 day ago 29 ● 2 sources
Bynario raised €2.1 million in a pre-seed round to build an AI-powered platform that identifies, prioritises, and helps remediate software vulnerabilities. The funding amount was €2.1 million. The company plans to use it to further develop the platform, grow its engineering team, and expand support for enterprise customers, as AI-assisted development increases the volume and speed of potential security issues.
Tech Funding News 1 day ago 21 ● 3 sources
Harvey raised $550 million to a $15.5 billion valuation and is using the money to build its own legal AI models rather than renting from OpenAI and Anthropic. The funding round valued the company at $15.5 billion. Harvey’s shift to proprietary, post-trained in-house models changes its cost and dependency structure for serving client work and adds a security acquisition, Guardrails AI.
Tech Funding News 1 day ago 2
Clay raised a $115M Series D to push its go-to-market platform toward AI agents for sales execution. The round values Clay at $7.1B, after a $3.1B Series C closed just over a year ago. It also launched a $1M fund to train “GTM engineers,” expanding its focus from GTM data and campaigns to agents that decide and run next-step sales actions.
TechCrunch 1 day ago 48
Listen Labs failed to close a planned $125 million Series C after walking away from a signed $1.5 billion-valuation term sheet amid acquisition talks with Salesforce. Salesforce discussions were reported to be for around $2 billion. Without the deal, the startup is expected to return to market with a target valuation of $2 billion or higher.
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11 September 2026
Meta’s Muse brought the agentic pitch to a very human question: can an AI check out without touching your money? The answer, at least on day one, is “only with permission.” Muse can search, navigate in-app flows, and complete purchases using connected app data, but it rolls out to U.S. adults with the user approving the total before any payment step. Meta’s own data signals the constraint shaping consumer AI right now—many users won’t share payment or location details, and they’d rather delegate parts of shopping (finding, comparing, navigating) than the final act.
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