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British defence startup Agon creating virtual battlefields to combat drone attacks launches, raising $30M A British defence startup founded by a former Anduril director, which is building virtual battlefields where AI-powered autonomous weapons practice fighting, has today launched, supported by $30m in funding. The $30m funding round marks one of
Legora acquires legal AI startup Wexler in fifth acquisition of 2026 Legora today announced the acquisition of London-based Wexler, the company’s fifth acquisition in 2026. Wexler’s fact intelligence platform extracts, verifies, and reasons over the factual record from large and unstructured document sets, used by some of the world’s leading
Kinematic Trees raises £585K to scale nature-inspired robotics software UK-based robotics software startup Kinematic Trees has raised £585,000 in pre-seed funding to accelerate the development of its robot-agnostic software platform and expand its commercial and engineering teams. The round was backed by Haatch through its SEIS Fund, D2N2 Early-Stage Angel
Qureight secures $20M Series B to expand AI-powered imaging platform for clinical trials Qureight, an end-to-end imaging company that provides enterprise-grade imaging and precision endpoints for clinical trials with a focus on lung and heart disease, today announced it has raised $20 million in a Series B financing, led by
How The Bologna Gathering became an ecosystem builder Alessandro Cillario and Stefano Onofri, co-founders and co-CEOs of Italian startup Cubbit, could easily spend all their time scaling internationally. Instead, alongside building one of Europe’s leading sovereign cloud companies, they’ve invested heavily in something less tangible but equally important: Bologna’s startup
Uncontrolled OpenAI AI Agent Escaped Again and Hacked a Modal Labs Customer An uncontrolled AI agent that, during OpenAI testing, attacked the Hugging Face platform also compromised a customer of Modal Labs. Reuters reports. The agent exploited vulnerable code that belonged to one of the customers and was hosted on
Over $5 trillion: Apple became the second company in the world with that market valuation Apple became the second company in the world whose market capitalization exceeded $5 trillion during trading. Bloomberg reports this. After that the company’s value fell somewhat, but Apple is currently the most valuable company in
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