The German startup detects online hate, digital violence, and disinformation across 89 languages in real time, and works with public prosecutors and police alongside commercial clients. Investors were not disclosed. Penemue, the…
Month: April 2026
Italian rehabilitation robotics startup Wearable Robotics raises €5M to expand its arm exoskeleton
The Pisa-based Sant’Anna spin-off has deployed its ALEX RS bilateral upper-limb exoskeleton across 20 countries since founding in 2014. CDP Venture Capital led the Series A, with SIMEST providing international expansion funding…
OpenAI buys TBPN, Silicon Valley’s favourite tech talk show, in its first media acquisition
The daily live show, hosted by former founders John Coogan and Jordi Hays, will sit inside OpenAI’s strategy organisation and report to chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane. Terms were not disclosed….
Google launches Gemma 4: four open-weight models from smartphones to workstations
Built from the same research as Gemini 3, the new family spans a 2B edge model that runs on a Raspberry Pi to a 31B dense model currently ranked third on the…
Quanscient and Haiqu run the most complex quantum fluid simulation yet, on IBM’s Heron R3
A new quantum algorithm ran a 15-step nonlinear fluid simulation around a solid obstacle on real quantum hardware, the most physically complex publicly documented demonstration of its kind. The technique reduces qubit…
Fortis Solutions on the rise of human-governed AI: Building trust through intelligent infrastructure
Fortis Solutions, an enterprise technology partner with decades of experience across infrastructure, cybersecurity, and data systems, approaches artificial intelligence as a force that is redefining how work is performed while preserving the…
Dan Pratl believes the credibility economy is coming and it will redefine value in the age of AI
A growing sense of unease is shaping how professionals engage with artificial intelligence, particularly as its capabilities expand across information creation and execution. Dan Pratl, founder of Quadron, believes this anxiety reflects…
When the machine asks you to stay
In October 2025, Sam Altman posted a message on X that ended with a single, carefully placed promise. ChatGPT, he said, would soon allow verified adults to access erotica. He framed it…
Amazon is in talks to buy Globalstar for $9 billion
A deal would give Amazon’s Leo satellite programme access to Globalstar’s L-band spectrum and operational infrastructure, a shortcut in its race to rival SpaceX’s Starlink. Apple’s stake, which powers Emergency SOS on…
Two ex-McKinsey founders raise $4.1M from Seedcamp to give boards an AI analyst that monitors corporate reputation in real time
Paris-based Omniscient ingests 100,000+ sources, press, social, web, video, audio, internal pipelines, and synthesises them into a two-minute executive briefing. Renault is an early client. A global syndicate spanning France, Japan, and…