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Estonia-based company AlphaChat has been acquired by Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich). The company provides conversational artificial intelligence (AI) technology for customer service automation, to further enhance the Group’s digital capabilities. AlphaChat is one of the most advanced start-ups in conversational AI, with a team of seasoned entrepreneurs and machine learning specialists. Founded in 2017, ...
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A judge ruled that Trump's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications is legal and rejected the US Chamber of Commerce's effort to overturn the fee. Read more ›
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The same Supreme Court that ruled that President Donald Trump is allowed to use the powers of the presidency to commit crimes finally placed a meaningful limit on Trump’s authority on Tuesday. In Trump v. Illinois, three Republican justices joined all three of the Court’s Democrats in ruling that Trump violated federal law when he […] Read more ›
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Jeffrey Epstein's wills named figures like Larry Summers and Jes Staley as possible executors, DOJ files show. Read more ›
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The chances of winning the Powerball Grand Prize is much smaller than being struck by lightening, killed in a shark attack, or born on a Leap Day. Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: CBS cannot contain the online spread of a "60 Minutes" segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tried to block from airing. The episode, "Inside CECOT," featured testimonies from US deportees who were tortured or suffered physical or sexual abuse at a notorious Salvadoran prison, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism. "Welcome to hell," one former inmate was told upon arriving,... Read more ›
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In her new docuseries, "The End of an Era," 36-year-old Taylor Swift says she feels "very depressed" about pop culture's obsession with youth. Read more ›
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Snowflake is in talks to buy app monitoring startup Observe Inc. for around $1 billion, which would likely be the biggest deal in Snowflake’s history, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. Observe, based in San Mateo, Calif., sells so-called observability tools that help developers to understand how their applications are performing and allows them to spot disruptions and outages. The deal would bring Snowflake into closer competition with... Read more ›
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Chinese regulators have been slow to approve the mass production and sale of more advanced self-driving tech. Read more ›
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The eye-popping $100 billion of capital OpenAI wants in a new funding round has everyone wondering where that kind of cash might come from. The round would value the company at about $750 billion prior to the cash infusion, we’ve reported. U.S. financial investors—including big retail fund managers that back private startups—are likely to supply just a fraction of the total, say $10 billion, because even those with hundreds of... Read more ›
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European public institutions are quietly migrating away from American cloud providers and office software, driven less by policy ambitions in Brussels than by the mundane legal reality that GDPR-mandated risk assessments keep flagging the US CLOUD Act as an unacceptable threat to citizen data. Austria's Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism moved 1,200 employees to the open-source platform Nextcloud in four months. Germany's Schleswig-Holstein has already transitioned 24,000 of... Read more ›
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'Legend of Aang' will now debut on streaming, hitting Paramount+ in fall 2026. Read more ›
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A group of authors led by John Carreyrou has filed a new lawsuit against Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, accusing the AI firms of training models on pirated copies of their books. TechCrunch reports: If this sounds familiar, it's because another set of authors already filed a class action suit against Anthropic for these same acts of copyright infringement. In that case, the judge ruled that it was... Read more ›
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Kai Murakami and Thomas Jane will play 'Star Trek' legends Hikaru Sulu and Leonard McCoy in the final episode of 'Strange New Worlds'. Read more ›
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10 subtle phrases the most emotionally intelligent people use to make others feel truly seen Read more ›
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LG Display's new 27-inch 4K OLED panel combines a 240Hz refresh rate with a true RGB stripe layout, potentially addressing text clarity issues that have held back OLED monitors. Read more ›
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We sifted through the fine print to figure out how to score the best deal on all the major carriers. Read more ›
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Helsinki-based Rundit has been acquired by Greenstep, marking a strategic move to merge modern fund reporting software with full-scale fund administration services. Rundit, whose platform is used by VC and PE investors in more than 40 countries to automate portfolio data collection and LP reporting, will continue operating as a standalone product and team under […] Read more ›
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Copenhagen-based fintech FarPay is entering a new growth phase following its acquisition by Dutch peer POM, in a transaction supported by investment firm Vortex Capital Partners. Known for its end-to-end automation of invoicing and accounts receivable across Scandinavia, FarPay will continue to operate as an independent brand within the POM Group, with its team, management, […] Read more ›
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Copenhagen-based NobodyWho has raised €2 million in pre-seed funding from PSV Tech, The Footprint Firm, and Norrsken Evolve to advance its open-source approach to Small Language Models that run directly on users’ devices. The startup is positioning SLMs as a privacy-first, energy-efficient alternative to cloud-based large language models by enabling AI inference to happen locally […] Read more ›
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Helsinki- and London-based Cloudberry has announced a €30 million initial close for what it describes as Europe’s first venture fund dedicated exclusively to semiconductors, photonics, and advanced materials. The fund will invest at pre-seed and seed stages, focusing on technologies linked to compute, connectivity, sensing, and power, at a time when European policymakers are seeking […] Read more ›
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European lenders are unlocking a significant new financing channel for Estonia’s business sector. Under a pact between the EIB Group and local lender Coop Pank, up to €249 million in fresh loans and leases will be made available to Estonian SMEs and mid-sized companies by 2028, with a strong focus on gender equality and climate-related […] Read more ›
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Stockholm-based nuclear startup Blykalla has raised $50 million to advance the industrialization of SEALER, its lead-cooled small modular reactor aimed at delivering stable, low-carbon baseload power. The round was co-led by Oklo Inc, Norrsken Launcher, and ARMADA Investment AG, with participation from KDDI, CoreWeave co-founders Brian Venturo and Peter Salanki, and investors including August One, […] Read more ›
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Lovable has secured $330 million in Series B funding at a $6.6 billion valuation, as investors double down on tools that lower the barrier to building software. The round is led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures’ Anthology fund, with backing from NVentures (NVIDIA), Salesforce Ventures, Databricks Ventures, Atlassian Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, Deutsche Telekom’s T.Capital, as […] Read more ›
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Danish industrial biotech startup EvodiaBio has raised €6 million in a funding round led by US-based RA Capital, with continued backing from EIFO and participation from new international investors Francis Family Funds and Wild Radicals. The company develops fermentation-driven technology that enables the efficient, scalable, and low-carbon production of natural aroma molecules—initially transforming beer production […] Read more ›
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Finnish SAR satellite operator ICEYE and Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) have signed a Letter of Intent to explore deeper collaboration across mission development, satellite operations, ground infrastructure, and future launch services, marking a concrete step toward strengthening Nordic and NATO-aligned space-based security capabilities. The partnership brings together ICEYE’s sovereign SAR-based intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) […] Read more ›
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Estonian logistics startup MyDello has raised €3.1 million in a new funding round led by Icelandic VC Frumtak Ventures, with participation from existing investor Superhero Capital of Finland, as the company expands its automated freight platform into the UK. The round also brings Jevgeni Kabanov, president of Bolt, onto MyDello’s board, alongside Frumtak general partner […] Read more ›
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