Category: Startups

Leading in the age of AI: Where innovation meets responsibility Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/leading-in-the-age-of-ai-brnd

I turned down VC cash to build my AI startup. You should too. Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/i-turned-down-vc-cash-to-build-my-ai-startup

Google settles with Epic Games, drops its Play Store commissions to 20% Google has dropped its commission, charging a 20% service fee and an optional 5% to use its billing services. It will also offer a new process for third-party app stores. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/google-settles-with-epic-games-drops-its-play-store-commissions-to-20/

Apple Music to add Transparency Tags to distinguish AI music, says report The label or distributor has to opt in to tagging their music as AI, so it’s unclear how effective this intervention will be. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/apple-music-to-add-transparency-tags-to-distinguish-ai-music-says-report/

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies,’ report says Anthropic gave up its contract with the Pentagon over AI safety disagreements — then, OpenAI swooped in. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-calls-openais-messaging-around-military-deal-straight-up-lies-report-says/

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but his explanation raises more questions than it answers Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that his company’s investments in OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be its last — but his explanation may not tell the whole story. Powered

His house burned down. He used the insurance money to build PopSockets. Does a consumer hardware company need to get on the VC treadmill to succeed? Eleven years and 290 million products sold across 115 countries later, PopSockets has proven that the bootstrapped, low-dilution path more viable than the industry gives it credit for. The global consumer hardware brand was built on less

Groundhawk raises €2M to digitise Europe’s underground infrastructure Finnish infrastructure software technology company Groundhawk has raised €2 million in Seed funding to transform how underground utilities are mapped and documented.  As Europe invests heavily in electricity grids, fibre networks, EV charging and renewable integration, a critical weakness remains: underground infrastructure

Brilliant Labs, Neuphonic and TheStage AI partner to bring privacy-first, cloud-free AI to smart glasses Startups Brilliant Labs, Neuphonic and TheStage AI today announced a strategic partnership to enable frontier AI in wearable technology without the latency and privacy compromises of cloud computing. Currently, AI inference, such as audio or

DeepIP secures $25M Series B to embed AI across the patent lifecycle AI patent platform DeepIP has raised $25 million in Series B funding, bringing total capital raised to $40 million. DeepIP is a workflow-native AI platform built to support patent professionals across the full patent lifecycle — from early