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Microsoft-backed German robotics software company Wandelbot raises €74.35M from Insight Partners, others

Wandelbots believes the world will change for good if people focus on their creativity and give monotonous work to robots. It aims to empower everybody to work with robots. Image credit: Wandelbots ...
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UK AI startup Magentic launches with €4.7M from Sequoia Capital, others to slash supply chain waste

London-based Magentic, a company building an AI Agent platform for the world’s supply chains, announced its launch today and has raised $5.5M (approximately €4.7M) in a Seed funding round led by ...
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German fintech Moss raises €24.8M in Series A extension round led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures

Moss is a technology-based payment and credit card platform that enables companies to optimise their finances. Image credit: Moss Berlin-based credit card fintech company Moss, announced that it has ...
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Germany’s Certivity raises €13.3M to help companies simplify and automate regulatory compliance with AI

Munich-based Certivity, a RegTech (Regulatory Technology) startup, has raised €13.3M in a Series A funding round to scale its AI-driven platform for managing technical compliance. “Certivity is ...
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Nearly a million wallets have lost $3.8 billion on Trump's memecoin while the president cleared $636 million — and the SEC has formally declared the whole arrangement outside ...

Nearly one million retail investors have lost a combined $3.8 billion buying President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin, while the president personally cleared $636 ...
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Hugh Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, was worth nearly £10 billion before turning 40 — and he still owns roughly 300 acres of Mayfair and Belgravia that the family has ...

Hugh Grosvenor became the 7th Duke of Westminster at 25 with a £9.9 billion fortune built on 300 acres of Mayfair and Belgravia — land his family has leased, but never sold, since 1677. Hugh Grosvenor ...
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Why rewatching a familiar movie can feel comforting

In a world designed to constantly demand your attention, rewatching the same beloved film becomes an act of psychological resistance—a space where you know exactly what happens next. There is a film I ...
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Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement wins final approval, leaving AI fair-use ruling intact

The settlement freezes a pivotal moment in AI law: Anthropic avoids a jury trial while a controversial fair-use precedent survives unchallenged. A U.S. federal judge has granted final approval to ...
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South Korea approved single-stock leveraged ETFs, then banned new ones two months later — inside the margin unwind that pushed forced selling to seven times last year's pace

Regulators tripled minimum deposits and halted new leveraged ETF listings after the Kospi's slide from a June record. The official data shows a leverage problem that built for months — and the loudest ...
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See’s says it maintained its ingredient standards during Second World War rationing and sold less candy; the record does not establish what every rival did

See’s own history says it kept using butter, cream and sugar and made less candy during rationing. That first-party account does not document universal competitor substitution or prove later loyalty.
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Qogita exits stealth mode with €80M funding; aims to be the Amazon of wholesale procurement

London-based Qogita, a platform simplifying wholesale procurement like Amazon, has emerged from stealth and secured €80M in a Series B round of funding. The startup claims to be a one-stop shop for ...
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No hype, no pitch decks: Cyprus’ Aiphoria quietly built a bootstrapped, profitable AI company; now raises $34M at $150M valuation

Limassol, Cyprus-based Aiphoria, an AI startup specialising in delivering enterprise-grade voice-first AI agents, has secured $34M (€29.5M) in a funding round led by Ratmir Timashev, co-founder of ...