Zendesk acquires Forethought in its biggest deal in two decades

The 2018 Startup Battlefield winner is joining Zendesk as the race to own agentic customer service accelerates When Forethought won the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield competition in 2018, ChatGPT was [...]

Uber, Wayve, and Nissan are bringing robotaxis to Tokyo

The three-way MOU marks Uber’s first autonomous vehicle partnership in Japan, and adds Tokyo to a global rollout already targeting ten cities. Tokyo’s streets are, by common consensus, among the m [...]

Neuramancer raises €1.7M to bring forensic AI to deepfake detection

The Bavarian startup is targeting insurance fraud first, and sees Europe’s push for explainable AI as a competitive edge Neuramancer AI Solutions GmbH has closed a €1.7 million pre-seed funding ro [...]

Cleafy raises €12M to stop bank fraud before it starts

The Milan cybersecurity firm’s Series B bets that predictive defence, not reactive detection, is how banks survive the AI fraud wave For more than a decade, Cleafy has been telling banks that waitin [...]

NVIDIA invests $2 billion in Nebius

  NVIDIA has agreed to invest $2 billion in Nebius Group, the Amsterdam-based AI cloud company that emerged from the wreckage of Yandex after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in a deal that pairs a su [...]

A humanoid robot passed an eight-hour factory shift at Siemens’ Erlangen plant

Siemens, Nvidia, and UK robotics startup Humanoid have successfully deployed an AI-powered wheeled humanoid robot in live logistics operations at a Siemens electronics factory in Germany. The HMND 01 [...]

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Tower raises €5.5m to empower data engineers in the AI era

The Berlin startup, founded by two ex-Snowflake engineers, wants to be the platform where AI-generated data pipelines go to actually work. The hard part of building with AI is no longer getting the co [...]

Bumble’s AI assistant Bee will learn what you want from a relationship

The dating app unveiled Bee at its Q4 earnings alongside a broader ‘Bumble 2.0’ overhaul, as the company attempts to reverse years of declining user numbers by replacing gamified swiping with AI-d [...]