Netherlands picks Groningen data centre for its €201M AI factory supercomputer
Netherlands picks Groningen data centre for its €201M AI factory supercomputer

The Netherlands’ national AI supercomputer is finally being given an address. On Monday, SURF, the IT cooperative serving Dutch education and research, announced that the machine will be installed at Eurofiber’s data center complex on the Zernike Campu…

German AI startup mika raises €6M to simplify accounting and tax for SMEs

Berlin-basedvertical AI startup mika has raised €6 million in a seed round led bypan-European investor Smedvig Ventures. Basel-based family office Wecken &Cie. (Care4 AG) also participated, alongs…

Palma.ai raises $1.8M to bring governed AI agents to more enterprises

Palma.ai, an enterprise platform for governing AI agents atruntime, has raised $1.8 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led byD11Z, with participation from Plug and Play Ventures, Deel, Scale N…

F13 emerges from stealth with $5M for vector graphics AI

F13, an AI company developingfoundation models for generating vector graphics, has emerged from stealth with$5 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Credo Ventures and Point Nine Capital, …

SPRIND and NADI launch €40M challenge to reinvent European chip design

SPRIND, Germany’s Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation, and NADI, the Dutch National Agency for Disruptive Innovation and SPRIND’s emergent Dutch counterpart, today launch a programme committing…

Alibaba says its new Zhenwu V900 is China’s most powerful AI chip
Alibaba says its new Zhenwu V900 is China’s most powerful AI chip

The most powerful AI chip in China today, delivering three times the performance of its predecessor, the Zhenwu M890. That is how Eddie Wu described the processor Alibaba unveiled on Tuesday. The chief executive was speaking at Apsara, the company’s an…

Meta says Muse looks like OpenClaw because it was built that way
Meta says Muse looks like OpenClaw because it was built that way

We built Muse from scratch, but it is definitely heavily inspired as a product by OpenClaw. Nat Friedman posted that on X on Monday evening. The head of product at Meta Superintelligence Labs was answering a fortnight of speculation about Meta’s new pe…

Heidi raises $340m and doubles its valuation to $900m
Heidi raises $340m and doubles its valuation to $900m

From the day I started Heidi, the ambition was always bigger than writing doctor’s notes. Dr Thomas Kelly said that on Tuesday, as the company he cofounded announced US$340m of new funding. The money arrives in two parts. In its announcement, Heidi sai…

Bitdefender built a VPN that hides your AI agent, not you
Bitdefender built a VPN that hides your AI agent, not you

Security can no longer stop at protecting the person behind the screen. It has to extend to the agent itself acting on their behalf. Ciprian Istrate said that on Tuesday. He runs consumer operations at Bitdefender, and the Romanian company was launchin…

Cyera has now raised $1.4bn this year to police AI agents
Cyera has now raised $1.4bn this year to police AI agents

They need to trust what AI agents can see and do before they can scale them. Yotam Segev said that on Tuesday, about what the Global 2000 keeps telling his company. The Cyera cofounder and chief executive was announcing a $400m investment from Growth E…