Good news from around Europe
London traveltech Stasher secures £3M for global expansion London-founded traveltech company Stasher has secured £3 million in new funding to expand its global luggage storage marketplace and smart locker network. The funding comprises approximately £2 million in growth financing from growth lender Gilion and a £1 million strategic investment from
DiffuseDrive is filling the data gaps holding back Physical AI Training AI to operate in the physical world requires enormous amounts of data, but many situations autonomous systems need to recognise are rare, dangerous, or hard to capture in the real world. Hungarian startup DiffuseDrive is tackling that data gap
Anthropic and Nvidia back Basecamp Research in $140m round Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/anthropic-nvidia-basecamp-research/
Magic AI raises £8m to take its AI-powered fitness mirror to the US Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/magic-ai-fitness-mirror-funding-round/
Nscale helped ByteDance subsidiary access Nvidia chips, swerving US rules — reports Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/nscale-nvidia-bytedance-tiktok/
Revolut unveils facial recognition payments in UK Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/revolut-facial-recognition-face-payments-pay-with-smile/
Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent The tiny hardware device creates another mobile home for its AI agent Muse. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/meta-made-a-tamagotchi-like-wearable-for-its-muse-ai-agent/
Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. It’s even coming to Meta’s AI glasses. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/everything-new-coming-to-metas-ai-agent-muse/
‘You cannot hide from AI’: Should we fear AI-led performance reviews? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/alan-chang-fuse-ai-reviews/
Vogue sent robots down the runway at Vogue World, and people were not impressed Nothing says Italian craftsmanship like a Chinese robot doing a lasso to “L’Amour Toujours.” Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/vogue-sent-robots-down-the-runway-at-vogue-world-and-people-were-not-impressed/