Good news from around Europe
BIZAY secures $55M to fuel US growth and industry consolidation BIZAY, a Portugal-based technology platform for customised products, has raised $55 million in a Series D funding round. The investment was led by existing investor Indico Capital Partners, with participation from Lince Capital, Cedrus and BPF. Founded in 2014 by
Google uses user-uploaded search files to train AI Google has introduced changes that allow it to use media files uploaded by users through its search services to train artificial intelligence models. Engadget reports. The new feature is enabled for all users by default. What data the company collects According to
Liz Kendall: ‘I’d love to stay as UK tech secretary’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/liz-kendall-podcast
Meet 2026’s award-winning women building deeptech startups Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/award-winning-women-deeptech-startups-brnd
IQM investors applaud ‘very good’ debut on public markets Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/iqm-debut-public-markets
Google backs Proxima Fusion in €411m raise Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/google-proxima-fusion-411m-raise
Hive raises $15m for ‘silicon brain’ that cuts hourly cost of running machines by 80% Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/hive-raises-15m-for-silicon-brain
Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/microsoft-joins-ai-cost-cutting-trend-by-relying-more-on-its-own-models/
Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/why-the-rise-of-open-source-ai-isnt-hurting-anthropic-yet/
Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/meta-rolls-out-muse-a-new-ai-image-generator/