Helical closes $10M seed to turn bio foundation models into systems
Helical closes $10M seed to turn bio foundation models into systems

The Luxembourg-founded startup is already in production with multiple top-20 global pharma companies, including a public collaboration with Pfizer. Its $10M seed round is led by redalpine, with the CEOs of Cohere and HuggingFace among the angel investo…

France bets €500 million that quantum computing is the tech race Europe can finally win
France bets €500 million that quantum computing is the tech race Europe can finally win

Europe has spent a decade watching American and Chinese companies capture every major technology wave, cloud, mobile, social, AI. Quantum computing may be the exception. A cluster of French startups, backed by €500 million in government funding and und…

Stanford’s annual AI report finds a widening gap between AI insiders and everyone else
Stanford’s annual AI report finds a widening gap between AI insiders and everyone else

The 2026 AI Index from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI documents a deepening disconnect between expert optimism and public anxiety. Gen Z anger about AI is rising fast. Employment in AI-exposed fields among younger workers is already declini…

The Wallenberg family rescues Europe’s flagship green steel project with a €1.4 billion financing round
The Wallenberg family rescues Europe’s flagship green steel project with a €1.4 billion financing round

Stegra,  formerly H2 Green Steel,  has agreed in principle on new financing led by a Wallenberg Investments consortium including Temasek and IMAS. Construction at its Boden plant had slowed during months of fundraising. The Wallenbergs will become the …

OpenAI’s $852 billion valuation is under scrutiny from its own investors as the company pivots to enterprise
OpenAI’s $852 billion valuation is under scrutiny from its own investors as the company pivots to enterprise

Some backers say OpenAI has revised its product roadmap twice in six months and risks losing focus ahead of an IPO expected as early as Q4 2026. OpenAI’s new CRO has accused Anthropic of overstating its $30B run rate by $8B through gross accounting on …

OpenAI acquires Hiro, an AI personal finance startup
OpenAI acquires Hiro, an AI personal finance startup

Hiro is shutting down on 20 April and deleting all user data by 13 May. Founder Ethan Bloch previously sold Digit to Oportun for more than $200M. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. OpenAI, the San Francisco AI lab behind ChatGPT, has acquired Hiro F…

Uber and Nuro begin employee testing of a Lucid Gravity robotaxi in San Francisco
Uber and Nuro begin employee testing of a Lucid Gravity robotaxi in San Francisco

The Lucid Gravity SUV runs Nuro’s autonomous driving system, powered by Nvidia Drive AGX Thor. A human safety operator sits behind the wheel. Uber has committed to buying at least 20,000 of these vehicles over the next six years. Uber and Nuro have beg…

Kelluu raises €15M to build a persistent aerial intelligence layer for Europe
Kelluu raises €15M to build a persistent aerial intelligence layer for Europe

The Finnish deep tech company, which operates the world’s largest autonomous airship fleet, has closed a Series A led by the NATO Innovation Fund, the Fund’s first investment in a Finnish company. Its airships can cover 30,000 square kilometres from a …

Meta is building an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so employees can ‘talk to the boss’
Meta is building an AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so employees can ‘talk to the boss’

The photorealistic digital character is trained on Zuckerberg’s mannerisms, tone, and his own thinking on company strategy. He is personally involved in testing it. The effort, described by four people familiar with the matter, is separate from a ‘CEO …

The Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic – and is now telling banks to use its AI
The Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic – and is now telling banks to use its AI

In short: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed Chair Jerome Powell are urging Wall Street’s biggest banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos AI model for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, even as the Pentagon fights Anthropic in court after branding it a supp…