Fourteen months after the Digital Operational Resilience Act became enforceable, Europe’s financial institutions are running out of room to improvise. The regulation, which took effect on January 17, 2025, was supposed to…
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BBLeap raises €5M to bring plant-level precision spraying to arable farms globally
The Rijen-based startup, which retrofits existing sprayers with nozzle-by-nozzle PWM control, will use the capital to commercialise its LeapEye camera system and scale LeapBox internationally from Europe to Canada. The idea behind…
Apollo.io acquires Pocus as it pushes to build an AI-native operating system for sales teams
The San Francisco B2B sales platform, which recently approached $200M in ARR and appointed a new CEO, absorbs the revenue intelligence startup’s signal-layer technology to deepen its enterprise push. Apollo.io has acquired…
Perplexity has launched Perplexity Health
The AI search company launches a suite of health data connectors, linking Apple Health, wearables, and electronic health records, making it the second major AI platform to integrate with Apple Health after…
Why the checkout is the most strategic product in your 2026 stack
Every product team has a roadmap. Every marketing team has a funnel. But ask most SaaS and ecommerce leaders which single component has the greatest direct impact on their revenue, and you…
VC Montis raises €50M to back Europe’s energy and industrial tech startups
The Warsaw-based fund, backed by the European Investment Fund and the Polish Development Fund, plans 20–25 pre-seed and seed investments in companies working on energy transition, industrial automation, and AI. The team…
Bluesky raises $100M Series B as new CEO takes charge
Ten days after founder Jay Graber stepped aside as CEO, the decentralised social platform has disclosed a $100 million Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, a round that closed last April…
DoorDash launches Tasks
Here is one way the AI data economy works in practice in 2026: a DoorDash courier straps on a body camera, washes at least five dishes, holds each one up to the…
Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2 enters the top three AI image generators in the world
The second version of Microsoft’s in-house image model lands at #3 on Arena.ai’s leaderboard, behind only Google and OpenAI, and begins rolling out across Copilot and Bing Image Creator today. A year…
AI analytics agents need guardrails, not more model size
Picture a VP of finance at a large retailer. She asks the company’s new AI analytics agent a simple question: “What was our revenue last quarter?” The answer comes back in seconds….