Month: September 2026

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals  On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/techcrunch-disrupt-2026s-new-real-world-ai-stage-features-nvidia-robots-and-extinct-animals/

Google spared from ad-business breakup, but judge orders changes to how it operates Google has dodged an effort to break up its ad business, but a judge said Wednesday that the company will need to adjust its business to benefit competitors. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/google-spared-from-ad-business-breakup-but-judge-orders-changes-to-how-it-operates/

OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/02/openais-new-reasoning-technique-alarms-ai-safety-experts/

Italian obesity digital clinic Holifya raises €2M to scale AI-supported GLP-1 care Holifya, the first digital clinic in Italy focused on pharmacologic treatment of obesity through AI and advanced diagnostics, has raised €2 million investment. The round, which is €1.6 million in equity and €0.4 million in debt capital and

Cummins joins Emerald Technology Ventures as LP to accelerate industrial innovation Large US industrial and power technology company, Cummins, best known historically for making diesel engines, particularly for trucks and heavy machinery. has joined Emerald Technology Ventures as a Limited Partner. Emerald was founded in 2000 and manages and advises

Instarc raises €1.25M to scale its cloud-native compliance platform Tallinn-based regtech company Instarc has secured a €1.25 million strategic investment to support the commercial rollout of its cloud-native compliance platform in South Africa. The investment was led by HFO Investments, with Athena Capital and Option 3 Capital advising on the

INLEAP Photonics raises €20M to expand laser counter-drone systems German deeptech company INLEAP Photonics has raised approximately €20 million in seed funding to scale its laser-based counter-drone technology for defence and critical infrastructure applications. The round was led by UVC Partners, with participation from HTGF in Germany, Poland’s Balnord, Estonia’s

Cambridge University spinout launches AI model “competitive” with OpenAI and Anthropic A Cambridge University spinout has today launched a “frontier-class” generalist AI model which it says is competitive with OpenAI and Anthropic’s leading models and can be deployed locally.  Flower Labs is a London and Hamburg-based startup which lets companies train

Long hours and stress don’t mean your startup is toxic Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/honest-about-startup-toxicity/

Daniel Ek-founded Neko Health tops latest Sifted’s Nordic ranking Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/neko-health-tops-2026-nordics-ranking/