Good news from around Europe
Former Vercel executive says voice agents will be won on infrastructure, not models [Sponsored] UK voice AI startup SLNG says the voice labs that have dominated the market have been systematically overcharging enterprises — and that the industry is heading for a price correction. “The market has been shaped by
UK startup Greenpixie raises £4.7M to cut AI and cloud energy waste for enterprises Energy SaaS startup Greenpixie has closed a £4.7 million pre-Series A round to help the world’s largest companies cut millions of dollars in wasted IT spend. Created to provide a crucial layer of sustainability intelligence to
EQT beats Atomico to manage €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/eqt-manage-scaleup-europe-fund
Sequoia backs AI agents scaleup Dust in $40m Series B Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/dust-series-b-40m
Exclusive: The ‘lobby wars’ pitting Europe’s chip startups against semiconductor giants Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/chips-act-lobby-wars
The DeepMind mafia building startups in Europe Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/investors-have-poured-billions-into-the-deepmind-mafia
Biohacking is a boys’ club — and it’s failing women Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/biohacking-is-a-boys-club
OSHA probing worker death at SpaceX’s Starbase site The death is the latest worker safety issue at the Starbase facility, which has a higher injury rate than all other SpaceX sites. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/osha-probing-worker-death-at-spacexs-starbase-site/
SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that access is the bigger obstacle and that Claude solves it. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/sandboxaq-brings-its-drug-discovery-models-to-claude-no-phd-in-computing-required/
Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries developers use to interact with APIs.