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Can Europe’s fintechs take on Apple Pay? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/fintechs-take-on-apple-pay

‘The next big thing’: Newfund raises €60m to back brain technologies Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/newfund-60m-brain-technologies

How France is leading Europe’s bioeconomy push Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/france-leading-europes-bioeconomy-brnd

Kelluu raises €15m to secure Europe’s skies with autonomous airships Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/kelluu-funding-round-nif-nato-autonomous-airships

Anthropic’s rise is giving some OpenAI investors second thoughts One investor who has backed both companies told the FT that justifying OpenAI’s recent round required assuming an IPO valuation of $1.2 trillion or more — making Anthropic’s current $380 billion valuation look like the relative bargain. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/anthropics-rise-is-giving-some-openai-investors-second-thoughts/

AI data center startup Fluidstack in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation months after hitting $7.5B, says report Fundraising is reportedly flowing for Fluidstack after it secured a $50 billion deal to build data centers for Anthropic. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/ai-datacenter-startup-fluidstack-in-talks-for-1b-round-at-18b-valuation-months-after-hitting-7-5b-says-report/

Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plug-ins used in thousands of websites Dozens of WordPress plug-ins were allegedly hijacked to push malware after they were sold to a new corporate owner. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/someone-planted-backdoors-in-dozens-of-wordpress-plugins-used-in-thousands-of-websites/

Anthropic co-founder confirms the company briefed the Trump administration on Mythos In an interview at the Semafor World Economy summit this week, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark explained why the company was still engaged with the U.S. government while simultaneously suing them. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/anthropic-co-founder-confirms-the-company-briefed-the-trump-administration-on-mythos/

London gets closer to its first robotaxi service as Waymo begins testing Waymo’s commercial service will eventually follow testing if the U.K. government approves. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/london-gets-closer-to-its-first-robotaxi-service-as-waymo-begins-testing/

Replenit raises $2.5M to bring real-time AI decision-making to retail Replenit, an AI decision engine for retail that turns customer signals into real-time, individualised decisions, has raised $2.5 million in a pre-seed funding round. The round was co-led by Movens Capital and Vastpoint, with participation from Logo Ventures, DigitalOcean Ventures,