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Hypefy, a Zagreb-based provider of AI-driven influencer marketing software, has secured €1.75 million in seed funding to innovate how brands connect with audiences through influencers. The round was led by Interactive Venture Partners, with participation from the family office of Thomas Peterffy, Oktogon Ventures, Euroventures, and InterCapital. Hypefy plans to use the funds to expand ...
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A group of activists has scraped Spotify's entire library, accessing 256 million rows of track metadata and 86 million audio files totaling roughly 300TB of data. The metadata has been released via Anna's Archive, a search engine for "shadow libraries" that previously focused on books. Spotify described the activists as "anti-copyright extremists who've previously pirated content from YouTube and other platforms" and confirmed it is actively investigating the incident. The... Read more ›
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Apple's long-rumored foldable iPhone is set to arrive next year, and already faces some preemptive competition from Samsung. Korea's ET News reports that Samsung's upcoming "Wide Fold" is also set to launch in 2026, and will closely mirror the display size and 4:3 aspect ratio of Apple's first foldable. The machine-translated report says the Wide […] Read more ›
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Trump is touting tariff revenues and a shrinking trade deficit as his economic accomplishments ahead or midterms, but economists say it's complicated. Read more ›
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Yoshua Bengio, known as one of the "AI godfathers," said that while more jobs will be automated by AI, human qualities like love will always be valuable. Read more ›
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These days when you want to engage with some media, you can choose from podcasts, videos, games, live performances - or books, one of the oldest and most popular ways to learn something new or escape (at least temporarily) from today's troubled world. We polled the staff of The Verge to find out what books […] Read more ›
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You guys voted, and now we've got the winners for your favorite tech in 18 product categories. Read more ›
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AI in HR is driving new job titles such as AI trainer, adoption lead, and governance manager, with demand for AI skills on the rise. Read more ›
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According to YouTube's 2025 Recap feature, the podcast I consumed the most on its platform was Seth Meyers' recurring segment "A Closer Look" on his show Late Night. Last year, I would have argued that this is not a podcast. That it is, in fact, a clip of a TV show. But in 2025, with […] Read more ›
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2025 is just about in the books, and the reviews are in: It sucked. Over at the subreddit r/decadeology, you can check out a long, long thread of redditors submitting reasons why 2025 was, in the words of the first post, “a long, disappointing year.” War in Gaza, vibecessions, chaos in the White House, growing […] Read more ›
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From pet supplies to outdated clothing and toys, these are the things professional organizers suggest getting rid of before the new year. Read more ›
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The Nintendo Switch 2 supports a wide range of controllers, from Nintendo’s own Pro Controller to many Bluetooth gamepads you might already have. Whether you’re setting up your new console for the first time or adding extra controllers for multiplayer games, pairing them is simple as long as you know where to look. Here’s how to connect the Switch 2 Pro Controller, how to sync additional Bluetooth controllers and what... Read more ›
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OnePlus has already confirmed that it's working on an entirely new range of smartphones that will be called Turbo. According to recent leaks, the brand will launch two devices initially, and one of those may have just been spotted in the Geekbench online database with the model number PLU110. It's powered by the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 SoC, paired with 16GB of RAM. It runs Android 16. Based on past... Read more ›
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Domestic audiences didn't fully turn up for 'Avatar: Fire and Ash,' but the international market may help it rake in end-of-year dough. Read more ›
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Huawei’s nova 15 series is now official in China as the latest midrange offerings from the brand. There are three members for now with the vanilla nova 15, the nova 15 Pro and the nova 15 Ultra. The trio debuts Huawei’s new “dual-ring” design language alongside updated cameras, faster chipsets and larger batteries. Huawei nova 15, nova 15 Pro and nova 15 Ultra Huawei nova 15 Ultra and nova 15... Read more ›
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A new leak suggests Oppo's upcoming Find X9 Pro could feature dual 200MP cameras and a 50MP telephoto shooter with 10x optical zoom. Read more ›
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A "slew of layoffs, price hikes and studio closures" for Microsoft's Xbox "have led many to declare — not for the first time — that the Xbox is dead," reports CNBC. Or is it just changing its business model? The company's overall gaming revenue decreased 2% year-over-year, with a 29% dip in Xbox hardware sales, according to Microsoft's first-quarter earnings for fiscal 2026. The broader console industry has been in... Read more ›
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Agreenculture, a Toulouse-based startup specialising in the autonomy and safety of agricultural machinery and tractors, has raised €6 million in a Series A equity round to enhance, standardise, and industrialise its products for rapid integration, while strengthening its commercial deployment. The funding was raised with participation from Supernova Invest, Future Food Fund and Unilis (Unigrains ... 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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Mirelo, an audio company that lets anyone generate perfectly synchronized sound effects for videos, has just raised about €35 million ($41 million) in a seed round, co-led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Atlantic.vc and TriplePoint Capital. The Berlin-based startup was founded by two senior AI researchers who are also accomplished musicians, ... 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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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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Mindoo, a Belgian platform for deploying safe and governed agentic workflows in healthcare, announced today that it has secured €5 million in Seed financing to provide hospitals and practices with a scalable AI workforce layer that performs routine tasks and alleviates pressure. The round was raised from 6DC, Syndicate One and a group of strategic ... Read more ›
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Repsense, a Lithuanian dual-use data analytics company specialising in information tracking and threat detection, has closed its €2 million Seed round in order to strengthen its technology for tracking and predicting information threats. The round was closed with a final €1.1 million investment led by Tensor Ventures and Seed Starter, CVC of Česká spořitelna bank, ... 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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Warsaw-based primary healthcare startup Jutro Medical has raised €24 million to scale its AI-enabled primary care rollup. This Series A extension round was led by Warsaw Equity Group, with participation from Vinci, naturalX Health Ventures, Fluent Ventures, Aternus, KAYA VC, and Inovo VC. A debt component from mBank and Orbit Capital is also included in ... Read more ›
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