Good news from around Europe
Balderton-backed AI agent startup Convergence acquired by Salesforce a year after launch Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/balderton-convergence-acquired-salesforce/
Energy startup Elvy has another $20m in equity on the table months after pre-seed Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/energy-startup-elvy-20m-round/
The investors backing DACH & CEEs fastest-growing startups Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/investors-backing-dach-cee-fastest-growing-startups/
Exclusive: Optics11 raises 17m to protect underwater cables from Russian state hooliganism Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/optics11-raise-underwater-cables/
The EU wants American AI researchers? Good luck with that Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/google-deepmind-ai-eu-us-talent-tech/
xAI blames Grok’s obsession with white genocide on an ‘unauthorized modification’ xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to “white genocide in South Africa” when invoked in certain contexts on X. On Wednesday, Grok began replying to dozens
Sam Altman’s goal for ChatGPT to remember ‘your whole life’ is both exciting and disturbing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a big vision for the future of ChatGPT at an AI event hosted by VC firm Sequoia earlier this month. When asked by one attendee about how ChatGPT can
Vibe-coding startup Windsurf launches in-house AI models On Thursday, Windsurf, a startup that develops popular AI tools for software engineers, announced the launch of its first family of AI software engineering models, or SWE-1 for short. The startup says it trained its new family of AI models — SWE-1, SWE-1-lite,
Viral outrage over Apple’s EU payment warnings misses key fact Apple says the warning messages now appearing next to EU App Store listings that use third-party payment systems are not actually new. According to a number of recent reports, Apple added a warning with a red exclamation mark next to
Fake fired Twitter worker ‘Rahul Ligma’ is a real engineer with an AI data startup used by Harvard The morning after Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter (now X), reporters encountered two men with boxes outside the company’s headquarters. One introduced himself as recently laid-off Twitter engineer “Rahul Ligma.” His