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These were the 100 most active VCs in Europe in 2024
These were the 100 most active VCs in Europe in 2024 Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/100-most-active-vcs-in-europe-in-2024/
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Eight years, 100+ startups scaled: What Morgan Stanleys startup accelerator has learned
Eight years, 100+ startups scaled: What Morgan Stanleys startup accelerator has learned Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/startups-morgan-stanleys-accelerator-brnd/
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Lawsuit puts Checkout.com’s ties to adult entertainment industry in spotlight
Lawsuit puts Checkout.com’s ties to adult entertainment industry in spotlight Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/lawsuit-checkout-uswipe-renderwison/
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Cursor in talks to raise at a $10B valuation as AI coding sector booms
Cursor in talks to raise at a $10B valuation as AI coding sector booms Investor interest in AI coding assistants is exploding. Anysphere, the developer of AI-powered coding assistant Cursor, is in talks with venture capitalists to raise capital at a valuation of nearly $10 billion, Bloomberg reported. The round,
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Microsoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete with OpenAI
Microsoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete with OpenAI Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, by developing its own powerful AI models and exploring alternatives to power products like Microsoft’s Copilot bot. Microsoft has developed its own AI “reasoning” models comparable to models
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SXSW 2025: What we’re paying attention to
SXSW 2025: What we’re paying attention to TechCrunch will be on the ground at SXSW 2025 — the annual tech, music, comedy, and film conference that kicked off Friday in Austin — in search of the zeitgeist of this AI-centric era. Yup, we’re one sentence in and AI has already
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Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues
Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking onstage at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the advocate for secure communications referred to the use
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Intuitive Machines’ second moon lander is dead
Intuitive Machines’ second moon lander is dead Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander is dead, just one day after it touched down at the moon’s south pole and tipped over. Luckily, the company says it was able to “accelerate several program and payload milestones” and deploy a few of the experiments
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4th Call for Thematic Projects: Final Results are out!
4th Call for Thematic Projects: Final Results are out! The Monitoring Committee of the Interreg Euro-MED Programme met today, March 6, 2025, in Marseille and approved 23 projects out of 167 applications received. All project Lead Partners will be officially notified of this decision in the coming days. Discover the list of approved projects.
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SoftBank-backed OakNorth sees new lending drive up profits
SoftBank-backed OakNorth sees new lending drive up profits OakNorth, the UK challenger business bank, has reported a 15 per cent increase in pre-tax profits to £215m in 2024, driven by new lending in the UK and the US where it has recently launched. OakNorth, which is backed by SoftBank, the