Endform raises €1.5M as faster AI-generated code puts new pressure
Endform raises €1.5M as faster AI-generated code puts new pressure

The Swedish testing startup has secured seed funding to take on the CI pipeline bottleneck in the age of AI-generated code. The code review has always had a bottleneck, not the code itself, but the wait. As test suites swell alongside faster developmen…

Samaipata launches €110M fund to back early-stage AI-native startups across Europe
Samaipata launches €110M fund to back early-stage AI-native startups across Europe

The pan-European VC firm has held its first close at €70M for Fund III, backed by Germany’s KfW, Spain’s SETT, and a network of family offices, with a mandate to find European companies building on the AI wave. Samaipata, the pan-European venture capit…

NVIDIA is reportedly building an enterprise AI agent platform
NVIDIA is reportedly building an enterprise AI agent platform

Sources tell Wired that Nvidia has been pitching ‘NemoClaw’ to Salesforce, Cisco, Google, Adobe, and CrowdStrike ahead of Jensen Huang’s keynote on Monday. NVIDIA has spent the past several years becoming the indispensable hardware backbone of the AI i…

Italy’s Mirai Robotics raises $4.2M to build autonomous vessels for the ‘blue economy
Italy’s Mirai Robotics raises $4.2M to build autonomous vessels for the ‘blue economy

A Puglia-based startup founded by the man behind aircraft maker Blackshape has closed a pre-seed round to build software-defined ships and maritime AI. The ocean, it argues, is the last major physical environment not yet governed by software. Mirai Rob…

Augur raises $15m from Plural to turn existing surveillance infrastructure into real-time intelligence
Augur raises $15m from Plural to turn existing surveillance infrastructure into real-time intelligence

A London startup founded by the creator of safety app Path is betting that the cameras and sensors already deployed across Europe’s transport hubs, stadiums, and power stations are gathering dust when they matter most. In the first week of February 202…

How an AI system beat experienced doctors at diagnosing rare diseases
How an AI system beat experienced doctors at diagnosing rare diseases

DeepRare, an agentic AI system integrating 40 specialised tools, outperformed medical specialists in identifying rare conditions in a head-to-head study published in Nature. For millions of people with rare diseases, the path to diagnosis is a labyrint…

Dominate AI search in 2026
Dominate AI search in 2026

Discovery has already changed, even if many teams have not fully felt the consequences yet. Buyers no longer open ten tabs, skim through blog posts, and slowly form an opinion over weeks. Instead, they ask a single question to an AI system and receive …

Anthropic launches marketplace for Claude-powered software
Anthropic launches marketplace for Claude-powered software

Despite facing a Pentagon blacklist and a storm of political headwinds, the AI lab is deepening its bet on enterprise. The timing looks deliberate. The product, called Anthropic Marketplace, is straightforward in concept and timed precisely. Enterprise…

Holyvolt buys US battery pioneer Wildcat Discovery for $73M
Holyvolt buys US battery pioneer Wildcat Discovery for $73M

The battery industry has a translation problem. Researchers can identify promising new materials in the lab; the challenge is moving those discoveries through chemistry, engineering, and manufacturing without losing years and hundreds of millions of do…

TaxDown secures €4M financing to expand AI tax platform
TaxDown secures €4M financing to expand AI tax platform

The Madrid tax fintech doubled revenue in 2025 and hit profitability. Now it’s taking on structured debt to scale its AI platform, a sign that its capital strategy is as deliberate as its product. Most tax software companies want to tell you how many u…