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Based between San Francisco and London, Cosine, a human reasoning lab building artificial general developers, raised a €2.2 million round led by US venture firms Uphonest and SOMA Capital, with participation from Lakestar, Focal, amongst others. The company also announced it has achieved a 30% score on SWE-Bench, the industry standard for evaluating software engineering ...
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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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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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In an attempt to keep prebuilt systems costs down and bypass a rocky supply chain, Maingear is offering custom build configurations where users provide their own RAM. Read more ›
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"Stranger Things: The First Shadow" is a prequel that focuses on Henry Creel, aka Vecna. That backstory might be a clue to his fate in the season 5 finale of "Stranger Things." 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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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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U.S. export policy is colliding with the realities of globalized supply chains, reseller-driven distribution models, and explosive demand for AI accelerators in China. Read more ›
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Yesterday, Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News, censored a segment of its newsmagazine 60 Minutes about men who had been deported to an El Salvador prison. Today, it's popping up online. 60 Minutes had already begun promoting the now-censored segment online. Because it was pulled so late, it seems that CBS missed at […] Read more ›
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About 1,000 defaulted student-loan borrowers will receive wage garnishment notices the week of January 7 with more to come as the year progresses. Read more ›
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Japanese PC shops have temporarily halted sales on BTO (built-to-order) computers, citing difficulties in keeping up with demand. Worldwide component shortages have not only made prices skyrocket, but they fluctuate so much that it's useless to offer quotes to customers where inventories are drying up. Read more ›
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In a recent talk, Meta engineers detailed how they've been deploying a low-latency Linux scheduler originally developed by Valve for the Steam Deck across production servers. Read more ›
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Laura Dern admitted that during the filming of "Jurassic Park," she doubted the movie would turn out well. Read more ›
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JPMorgan no longer wants to pay Charlie Javice's legal bills. Inside the latest dispute between the bank and the startup founder convicted of fraud. Read more ›
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A 30-cubic-foot French door smart fridge under $1,500 isn’t something you see every day, especially from Samsung’s Bespoke line. This model is down to $1,457.99 from $2,429.99, which makes it a lot easier to justify if you’ve been putting off a major kitchen upgrade. You’re getting huge capacity, a more premium design than basic stainless, ... Read more ›
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Photos show Greenland's culture, which has both Inuit and Danish influences. Its industry, cuisine, and more are shaped by the weather and history. Read more ›
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This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Lowpass is taking a winter break and will be back on January 8, 2026. All I want for Christmas is to find that darn movie I've been meaning to watch. […] Read more ›
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Oxford-based materials science startup A&B Smart Materials (A&B) has closed its €1.7 million (£1.5 million) “heavily oversubscribed” pre-Seed round to replace the synthetic sustainable superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) used in hygiene products and agriculture. The funding round’s principal investors include existing backer Sake Bosch, alongside new strategic investors, Caesar and Living Hope VC. Archipelago Ventures, Triple ... Read more ›
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Danish flavour company EvodiaBio has raised €6 million (DKK 45 million) in a new funding round to accelerate growth in existing markets and support their expansion into the asian market. The round was led by the American investment firm RA Capital Management’s Planetary Health Fund and joined by other new investors Wild Radicals and Francis ... Read more ›
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Ghent-based FoodTech startup Those Vegan Cowboys has secured €6.25 million in its first funding round to accelerate the development of its cow-free casein, a vital dairy protein made using precision fermentation – with plans to launch a crowdfunding campaign in the coming months. The funding round was led by Pieter Geelen, co-founder of navigation giant ... Read more ›
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A new report published by the European Commission and the StepUp StartUps Consortium outlines how Europe is entering a critical phase in which the ability to integrate AI across civilian and defense innovation ecosystems will determine both technological competitiveness and strategic autonomy. AI is becoming central to Europe’s dual-use technologies, with the European startup and ... Read more ›
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Basel-based FoRx Therapeutics, a clinical-stage BioTech company developing precision anti-cancer therapeutics, today announced the close of an insider-led €42 million ($50 million) Series A financing. Existing investors including EQT Life Sciences, Pfizer Ventures, Novartis Venture Fund and M Ventures participated in the financing including a first closing in June 2024, which provided funding through the Investigational ... Read more ›
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Jyväskylä-based startup Aisti has secured €20 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to expand production of its bio-based noise-reducing tiles for buildings. The financing will support Aisti’s factory expansion in Kitee, a rural city in Eastern Finland. The loan will also be used for research and development to further enhance its product offering. ... Read more ›
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Ankar, a London-based AI platform innovating how companies and law firms capture and protect their patents, has raised a €17 million ($20 million) Series A round to grow its team and expand further into the US. The round was led by Atomico, with Index Ventures doubling down and Norrsken VC and Daphni participating – bringing ... Read more ›
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Lovable, a Stockholm-based AI-native software creation platform enabling users to build full-stack applications without writing code, has secured €281 ($330 million) million in Series B funding – valuing the startup at €5.6 billion ($6.6 billion). The investment round was led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures’ Anthology fund. Other backers in this round include NVentures (NVIDIA’s ... Read more ›
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Luxembourg-based FundTech company Fundvis has raised €2.12 million in pre-Seed funding to accelerate product development, support its growth ambitions, and strengthen its European footprint. The round was backed by a mix of private shareholder investment and public funding, comprising of €1.12 million from existing shareholders and €1 million via the Luxembourg Young Innovative Enterprise (YIE) ... Read more ›
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Editor’s Note: This post was created in collaboration with and with financial support from EIT Food. On 20 November 2025 concluded the six-month Empowering Women in Agrifood (EWA) programme concluded with Demo Day in North Macedonia. The event showcased the innovative ideas of women entrepreneurs who received support, training, mentorship, and financial backing to develop their agrifood ... Read more ›
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