Day: August 28, 2026

Sweden’s top-funded tech companies in H1 2026 Swedish technology companies raised approximately €2.8 billion in H1 2026, with a significant share of capital concentrated in a small number of large transactions. Stegra recorded the largest financing at €1.4 billion, accounting for around 46 per cent of the total. It was

Human must not surrender cognition to AI There is a revealing moment in the maybe-apocalyptic 2023 film Leave the World Behind when Ethan Hawke’s character, George, finds himself driving around in unfamiliar territory after getting in his car to find supplies. Not only that, but something happens that renders all

PlantVoice is bringing ‘plant intelligence’ to precision agriculture Traditionally, farmers make decisions based on weather forecasts, soil moisture measurements, visual observations, and their own experience in the field. These are valuable sources of information, but they only provide part of the picture. Italian startup PlantVoice, however, believes that the plant

Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9BN, says report Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, the AI platform and open-source AI model repository, for $12.9bn, according to a report in US tech title The Information, which cited a person with knowledge of the deal. The deal, which has not

ColibriTD secures €4M to scale its quantum simulation platform French quantum software company ColibriTD has raised €4 million in seed funding to further develop its multiphysics simulation technology and expand internationally. The round was led by Earlybird Venture Capital, with participation from SymbiaVC and Medin VC, following a previous €1

Anthropic strikes $45bn deal with Nscale to rent compute capacity Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/nscale-athropic-deal-data-centre/

Nvidia strikes $12.9bn deal for Hugging Face, reports say Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/nvidia-hugging-face-acquisition-deal/

Starling’s AI gamble sparks staff concerns Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/starlings-ai-gamble-sparks-staff-concerns/

AI, athletes, and Keith Rabois: StrictlyVC is back in New York on September 10 A boutique StrictlyVC evening returns to New York’s West Village on September 10 with Keith Rabois, Craig Shapiro, Jason Levien, Tristan Walker, Brynn Putnam, and Deven Parekh — covering AI, sports investing, community-building, venture economics, and

Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026  At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/anthropic-and-openai-are-joining-the-ai-stage-at-techcrunch-disrupt-2026/