Good news from around Europe
Sweden’s AI strategy won’t keep its best founders at home Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/swedens-ai-strategy-wont-keep-its-best-founders-at-home
Forget pitch decks — you need pitch cakes! Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/forget-pitch-decks-you-need-pitch-cakes
Allica Bank becomes Europe’s newest unicorn with $155m Series D Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/allica-bank-unicorn-news
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: This isn’t our first SaaSpocalypse Salesforce reported a solid year-end earnings and then pulled out all the stops to ward off more talk of the death of its business to AI. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-this-isnt-our-first-saaspocalypse/
Gushwork bets on AI search for customer leads — and early results are emerging Gushwork has raised $9 million in a seed round led by SIG and Lightspeed. The startup has seen early customer traction from AI search tools like ChatGPT. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/gushwork-bets-on-ai-search-for-customer-leads-and-early-results-are-emerging/
Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders Seattle-based Vercept developed complex agentic tools, including a computer-use agent that could complete tasks inside applications like a person with a laptop would. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/anthropic-acquires-vercept-ai-startup-agents-computer-use-founders-investors/
Nvidia has another record quarter amid record capex spends “The demand for tokens in the world has gone completely exponential,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said about the company’s earnings. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/nvidia-earnings-record-capex-spend-ai/
The White House wants AI companies to cover rate hikes. Most have already said they would. Many hyperscalers have already made public commitments to cover electricity cost increases. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/the-white-house-wants-ai-companies-to-cover-rate-hikes-most-have-already-said-they-would/
Allica Bank to become UK’s latest fintech unicorn, following $155M funding round, according to report UK challenger business bank Allica Bank is to become the latest UK fintech unicorn, following a $155m (£111m) Series D funding round, according to a report. Allica is expected to announce tomorrow that its new
Radiant and Ori merge to deliver sovereign AI cloud at utility scale UK scaleup Radiant today announced its merger with Ori Industries, combining Ori’s distributed AI infrastructure platform with Radiant’s global infrastructure capabilities and marking the company’s transition into full operations. Radiant is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company combining