Universal Robots and Scale AI launch the UR AI Trainer
Universal Robots and Scale AI launch the UR AI Trainer

Revealed at GTC 2026, the leader-follower imitation learning platform captures force, motion, and visual data directly on production hardware, closing the gap between AI research labs and factory floors. Universal Robots has launched the UR AI Trainer,…

Nscale signs 1.35GW Microsoft LOI for a West Virginia AI campus built around NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin GPUs
Nscale signs 1.35GW Microsoft LOI for a West Virginia AI campus built around NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin GPUs

Announced at GTC 2026, the deal covers around 430,000 next-generation NVIDIA GPUs, is backed by a Caterpillar natural gas power deal, and is built on a site described as the US’s first state-certified AI microgrid, with an 8GW potential footprint. Nsca…

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT cannibalises nearly 100,000 of their articles
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT cannibalises nearly 100,000 of their articles

Filed in New York on 13 March 2026, the complaint accuses OpenAI of using the reference publishers’ content as AI training data without permission, then generating responses that reproduce it verbatim, six months after the same companies sued Perplexit…

Oxford Medical Simulation secures £5M growth financing
Oxford Medical Simulation secures £5M growth financing

The London-based healthtech company, which lets clinicians practise emergencies and difficult conversations in virtual reality, will use the capital to deepen its US footprint and accelerate AI-driven product development. Oxford Medical Simulation has …

Meta commits up to $27 billion to Nebius in one of the largest AI infrastructure deals on record
Meta commits up to $27 billion to Nebius in one of the largest AI infrastructure deals on record

The five-year agreement expands an existing relationship between the two companies and will involve one of the first large-scale deployments of Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin chips. Nebius shares surged 14% in pre-market trading. Meta has signed a new long-te…

Italian AI startup Alomana raises €4M to bring autonomous workflows to the enterprise
Italian AI startup Alomana raises €4M to bring autonomous workflows to the enterprise

CDP Venture Capital leads the round for the Milan-based company behind Alo, an AI operating layer already deployed in finance, manufacturing, and pharma. Alomana, a Milan-based AI startup building an operating layer for enterprise automation, has raise…

WhiteBridge AI raises $3M seed round
WhiteBridge AI raises $3M seed round

WhiteBridge AI, the Vilnius-based people-search and digital identity platform, has raised a $3 million seed round, equivalent to roughly €2.6 million, led by FIRSTPICK VC. The round also includes participation from First Degree, NGL.VC, Scalewolf.VC, B…

NVIDIA GTC 2026 opens today
NVIDIA GTC 2026 opens today

NVIDIA’s GTC 2026 opens in San Jose today with 30,000 attendees, a keynote at the SAP Center, and announcements that could reshape the next two years of AI infrastructure, from Vera Rubin deep-dives to an enterprise agent platform and a gigawatt deal w…

Recap: Europe’s top 10 funding rounds this week (9 -15 March)
Recap: Europe’s top 10 funding rounds this week (9 -15 March)

From a record-breaking AI seed in Paris to Croatian drones and Lithuanian food tech, Europe’s startup ecosystem had a busy week. The week of 9-15 March was, by any measure, an exceptional one for European venture capital. Two deals alone, one in London…

Spotify lets you edit your own algorithm with new Taste Profile feature
Spotify lets you edit your own algorithm with new Taste Profile feature

The feature, announced at SXSW by co-CEO Gustav Söderström, lets Premium listeners see and shape the data model powering their recommendations, starting with a beta rollout in New Zealand For a decade, Spotify’s recommendation engine has worked largely…