Good news from around Europe
OpenAI plans to invest in a startup that will compete with Neuralink OpenAI plans to invest in Merge Labs, a startup that will develop brain-computer interfaces and is considered a direct competitor to Neuralink. The startup is valued at $850 million and plans to raise $250 million in investments, primarily
Polish VC Spire Capital Partners launches €90M fund I to back tech growth in CEE Spire Capital Partners, a Polish private equity fund focused on technology-driven buyout and growth investments in Central and Eastern Europe, has announced the final close of its debut fund, Spire Capital Partners Fund I, at
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is being updated to Unreal Engine 5.5.4. GSC Game World has revealed its plans for the rest of 2025 GSC Game World studio shared details about the development of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl for the remainder of 2025. The main point is the update of the engine
Chrome for $34.5 billion: American AI startup Perplexity wants to buy Google’s browser American AI startup Perplexity has officially offered Google $34.5 billion to acquire the Chrome web browser. This was reported by Bloomberg. According to media reports, the initiative came amid an antitrust investigation in the US, where authorities
Italian unicorn Bending Spoons secures over €500m in debt to fund further M&A Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/bending-spoons-500m-e-debt-raise/
Is European tech having a US summer? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/european-tech-us-summer/
‘The amount of inference compute needed is already 100x more’: How Europe’s AI companies can meet demands Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/europes-ai-efficiency-brnd/
How to get a job at AI startup Photoroom: ‘Qualifications are not important’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/how-to-get-a-job-at-photoroom/
The Hollywood heartthrobs we want to see play Europe’s top founders and VCs Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/tech-founders-actors-leo-woodall-anton-osika/
Co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI departs the company Igor Babuschkin is leaving xAI less than three years after he co-founded the startup with Elon Musk, following a series of scandals at company. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/13/co-founder-of-elon-musks-xai-departs-the-company/