The UK job search engine has acquired the employment divisions of two multi-vertical classifieds aggregators from Lifull Connect, bolstering its presence in Spain, Italy, and Latin America as its Japanese parent offloads…
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Meta’s CEO is developing a personal AI assistant to handle executive duties
Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI agent designed to assist him with his duties as chief executive of Meta. According to reporting by the Wall Street Journal, the system remains in development…
Idomoo launches Strata – the first AI foundation model for layered video
The Israeli video personalisation company is launching Strata, a foundation model it says produces separate, editable layers for text, animation, footage, and actors rather than a single flat file. It’s a direct…
Air defence startup Egide raises €8M seed to take on Europe’s sky protection gap
A new entrant into the crowded but urgent European air defence startup space has closed its first significant round, as capital chases the continent’s most pressing military capability shortfall. The phrase ‘air…
360 Capital raises €85M for deeptech fund backed by European defence prime
The Paris-Milan VC’s new vehicle is the latest sign that European investors are hardwiring defence into their deeptech strategy. There is a version of this story that could have been told three…
Air Street Capital’s $232m fund is now Europe’s biggest solo GP raise
For most of the past decade, the received wisdom in European venture capital was simple enough: if you wanted a serious fund, you needed a partnership. The large teams, the committee structures,…
Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (16 -22 March)
A quieter week by headline standards, but one that reveals a great deal about where European venture capital is quietly concentrating: AI agents for physical industries, agritech automation, and the growing operator-to-VC…
The dummy server and the chip war
The indictment of Super Micro’s co-founder exposes not just a $2.5 billion scheme, it exposes a system that was never built to stop one. Somewhere in a rented warehouse in Southeast Asia,…
WordPress.com lets AI agents write, publish, and manage your site
Automattic has added write capabilities to WordPress.com’s MCP integration, giving AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT the ability to create posts, build pages, manage comments, and restructure content, all through natural conversation,…
Starling launches an AI banking assistant that actually does things
The UK challenger bank is rolling out Starling Assistant to personal account holders today, billing it as the UK’s first agentic AI financial assistant. It can set up savings goals, organise bill…