Month: May 2025

How Bpifrance transformed French tech in a decade Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/bpifrance-vc-results-2013-2023/

Northvolt to shut down operations by end of June Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/northvolt-may-lose-last-customer/

Eurazeo, EQT Ventures and Northzone back employee benefits startup Kota in $14.5m Series A funding round Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/eqt-ventures-northzone-kota-funding-round-employee-benefits/

EIF unveils first investment in a defence tech fund Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/eif-first-defence-tech-fund/

Read the memo Builder.ai CEO sent investors blaming lenders for companys collapse Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/builder-ai-leaked-memo-full-manpreet-ratia/

Anthropic CEO claims AI models hallucinate less than humans Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believes today’s AI models hallucinate, or make things up and present them as if they’re true, at a lower rate than humans do, he said during a press briefing at Anthropic’s first developer event, Code with Claude,

Hinge Health pops 17%, but joins growing ranks of down-round IPOs Hinge Health, a digital physical therapy company, closed its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday at $37.56, up about 17% over the $32 IPO price it set the previous day. That’s a good

Klarna CEO and Sutter Hill take victory lap after Jony Ive’s OpenAI deal Hours after Sam Altman and Jony Ive announced on Wednesday that OpenAI was buying Ive’s company, io, in an all-stock transaction valued at $6.5 billion, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski posted a surprising message on X.  Siemiatkowski’s family

Bluesky will begin verifying ‘notable’ users Bluesky on Thursday quietly opened the doors to those who want to become verified on its social networking service. In a post published by the Bluesky Safety account, the company announced that “notable and authentic” accounts can now apply for verification through a new

Anthropic’s latest flagship AI sure seems to love using the ‘cyclone’ emoji Anthropic’s new flagship AI model, Claude Opus 4, is a strong programmer and writer, the company claims. When talking to itself, it’s also a prolific emoji user. That’s according to a technical report Anthropic released on Thursday, a