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London-based Fyxer AI, a startup developing an AI-powered executive assistant tool, has secured $30M (approximately €25.5M) in a Series B funding round. The funding round was led by Madrona with participation from Lakestar Capital. Previous investors include 20VC, 20Growth, and Salesforce founder Marc Benioff. The UK company will use the funds to accelerate the expansion ... Read more
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A huge AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage has taken out multiple internet services including Alexa, Ring, Snapchat and more –here's what we know so far. Read more ›
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and more. The AWS status checker is reporting that multiple services are “impacted” by operational issues, and that the company is “investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 […] Read more ›
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Roblox, Fortnite, and a number of the world's other biggest games have gone offline as a huge outage affects the internet this morning. Read more Read more ›
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Amazon is tracking a massive AWS outage that has crippled large parts of the internet. Read more ›
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"Thinking Week" at 1440 is designed to boost innovation and employee satisfaction. Workers cancel meetings, and the CEO encourages walks in the woods. Read more ›
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A massive internet outage occurred Monday morning, impacting Amazon, Snapchat, Roblox, and more. Read more ›
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Organizers say the “No Kings” protests drew more than seven million people across 2,700 cities. The crowds included high-profile politicians, A-list celebrities, and more than a few creative inflatables. Read more ›
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Services of Snapchat, Canva, Signal, Perplexity, Duolingo, and Open AI —used by millions every day across the world— are down across the world. The disruption appears to be linked to an outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Read more ›
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UK-based CoMind secures €87.8M to develop technology to monitor and treat the brain without invasive procedures. London-based CoMind, a company transforming brain healthcare with its non-invasive technology, has secured $102.5M (nearly €87.88M) in funding. The company plans to complete clinical trials, pursue regulatory approval in the US, and expand its team. The funding round was ... Read more Read more ›
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Elon Musk has proposed a public coding contest between xAI’s Grok 5 and former OpenAI research lead Andrej Karpathy, comparing it to the 1997 showdown between Garry Kasparov and IBM’s Deep Blue. Read more ›
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On Sunday, SpaceX launched 56 additional Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to date. The milestone was reached on board the 132nd Falcon 9 launch of 2025, tying the previous annual launch record with more than two full months to go in the year. Of […] Read more ›
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One of the perks of his job, McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski says, is that he gets to eat at the fast food chain "a lot." Read more ›
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If you want to cut heating costs, learn when using a space heater is more efficient than central heat. Read more ›
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Photos have emerged from the landing site that show the plane's body in pieces, with the tail section separated from the fuselage. Read more ›
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A sweeping review of over 200 studies finds that aerobic exercises like walking and cycling offer the best pain relief and mobility gains for knee osteoarthritis. Compared to other types of exercise, aerobic training showed the strongest evidence across short- and long-term outcomes. All forms of exercise were found to be safe, but experts recommend making aerobic activity the foundation of treatment. Read more ›
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It’s been over a month since the iPhone 17 series went on open sale, and Counterpoint suggests the new phones are faring much better than their predecessors. According to the report, the iPhone 17 series outsold the iPhone 16 series by 14% in its first 10 days of availability in China and the US. The figures show that the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max are outselling the 16... Read more ›
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The platform's immune system kicked in when a large number of accounts associated with Donald Trump sought attention there. Read more ›
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Saturday marked the biggest day of protest since the start of Donald Trumps’ second term. Organizers of the No Kings protests estimated that over seven million people took to the streets to declare their opposition to the president, his policies, and his tactics. Indivisible, the group behind the protests, claims that there were over 2,700 […] Read more ›
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A groundbreaking study reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically longer than those who didn’t. Researchers from the University of Florida and MD Anderson Cancer Center discovered that the vaccine’s immune-activating properties may boost cancer-fighting responses, acting like a nonspecific “flare” that reawakens the immune system. Read more ›
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Fintech cofounder Garima Shah believes that mistakes are inevitable in a startup environment, and accountability is key to moving forward. Read more ›
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Amsterdam’s Whoppah has acquired Dutch designer furniture platform Showroommodellen to expand its operations. Amsterdam-based Whoppah, a marketplace for interior items, has acquired Showroommodellen, a Dutch platform that lists showroom models of designer furniture. Showroommodellen’s platform provides access to items from more than 500 international brands. It offers furniture, lighting, and accessories from sales partners in ... Read more Read more ›
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London-based beauty technology company, Yuv, recently appeared on BBC One’s Dragons’ Den and attracted significant investor interest. London-based Yuv, a beauty technology company, has received a record investment offer on BBC One’s Dragons’ Den. Founder and CEO Francisco Gimenez secured joint backing from Steven Bartlett and Sara Davies, following offers from five of the six ... Read more Read more ›
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Swiss Quantum Technology invests €10M to host D-Wave’s Advantage2 quantum computer and expand quantum access in Europe. California-based D-Wave Quantum, a company specialised in quantum computing, has partnered with Swiss Quantum Technology (SQT) to deploy a D-Wave Advantage2 annealing quantum computer in Europe. This collaboration was announced at the Digital Innovation Forum – ComoLake 2025 ... Read more Read more ›
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Amsterdam unicorn DataSnipper, in collaboration with the Redmond giant Microsoft, launched its new AI Agents to transform auditing and financial reporting. Amsterdam-based unicorn DataSnipper, an automation platform for audit and finance teams, in collaboration with the Redmond giant Microsoft, launched its new AI Agents — Disclosure Agents and Excel Agents. These AI agents powered by ... Read more Read more ›
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Gothenburg-based eFuel facility developer Liquid Wind receives funding to lower the use of fossil fuels in sectors such as shipping and aviation. Gothenburg-based Liquid Wind, an eFuel facility developer with a vision to reduce the world’s dependency on fossil fuel, has received €3.6M in funding for the pre-engineering of its full-scale eMethanol plant in Örnsköldsvik, ... Read more Read more ›
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AI Factory in Groningen gets green signal after EU’s investment! The initiative aims to secure the Netherlands’ digital independence and strengthen its position as a European leader in AI. AI Factory in Groningen is now official! The European Union, through EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), is investing over €71M for the construction of the Dutch ... Read more Read more ›
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Amsterdam-based Return raises significant funding from this pension investor to expand its European battery storage platform and strengthen grid resilience. Amsterdam-based Return, an independent energy storage provider, announced that it has raised €300M in new growth equity for a minority stake from pension investor APG, through its pension fund ABP. ABP is the pension fund ... Read more Read more ›
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London-based Ploy raises funds to provide a platform that automates user access management and identity processes across SaaS, cloud, and collaboration tools. London-based Ploy, a cybersecurity startup, has raised £2.5M (nearly €2.86M) in funding to address identity-related security breaches. The round was led by Osney Capital, with participation from Superseed, Tiny.vc, and Rule30. Several angel ... Read more Read more ›
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Stegra, a Swedish company focused on decarbonising heavy industries, opens a new financing round to support its green-steel project in Boden. Stockholm-based Stegra, a company accelerating the decarbonisation of hard-to-abate industries, has opened a new financing round to advance the construction of the world’s first large-scale green-steel plant in Boden, Sweden. The company, reportedly, plans ... Read more Read more ›
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One of the original inventors of the AI system that powered the development of Apple’s Siri has today launched his new startup at the intersection of AI and quantum technology. Copenhagen-based SiC Systems, a spinout from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), announced that it has officially launched with a funding round led by QDNL ... Read more Read more ›
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