AI can screen 15 million molecules in a day. It still can’t cure Alzheimer’s.

The drug discovery revolution is real but radically overstated, the health chatbots are a documented hazard, and the diseases that matter most remain stubbornly unsolved. At Novartis, sometime in late [...]

PLD Space raises €180M Series C to scale Europe’s commercial launch capabilities

Spanish launch company PLD Space, headquartered in Elche, has secured €180 million in Series C funding to accelerate production of its orbital rocket systems and expand global launch operations. The [...]

Swedish scaleup Flower wins TECH5 — the ‘Champions League of Tech’

Swedish energy tech pioneer Flower has won TECH5 — the “Champions League of Technology.” The company clinched the title of Europe’s hottest scaleup after developing a novel way to store energ [...]

Decentraland just launched on the Epic Games Store.

The metaverse was supposed to be its own destination. You would put on a headset, enter a virtual world, and never need to think about the platform that brought you there. That was the pitch, anyway. [...]

Google's Circle to Search can now translate text as you scroll

Google's Circle to Search tool just got a bit more useful, as it can now continuously translate text while scrolling. Until now, people had to restart the process every time the content on the sc [...]

Legal AI platform Legora raises $550m at a $5.55bn valuation

The Stockholm-born company has gone from zero to $5.55 billion in under two years, and it is not slowing down. There is a standard piece of mythology in the legal profession: that lawyers are resistan [...]

JAAQ raises $17M to embed clinically governed mental health content inside the digital tools people already use

The London-based platform, which already covers 1.5 million eligible lives across enterprise and healthcare deployments, is using the Series A to accelerate US market entry and deepen its clinical inf [...]

The 10 best communities for aging gracefully in America, according to AARP

These communities offer retired Americans better access to healthcare, walkable neighborhoods, social engagement, and safety [...]

AI summaries can downplay medical issues for female patients, UK research finds

The latest example of bias permeating artificial intelligence comes from the medical field. A new study surveyed real case notes from 617 adult social care workers in the UK and found that when large [...]