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DORA is reshaping how Europe’s financial sector thinks about compliance, and most firms still aren’t ready

Fourteen months after the Digital Operational Resilience Act became enforceable, Europe’s financial institutions are running ...
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Starling launches an AI banking assistant that actually does things

Starling has launched Starling Assistant for personal account holders, the UK’s first agentic AI financial assistant.
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WordPress.com lets AI agents write, publish, and manage your site

Automattic has added write capabilities to WordPress.com’s MCP integration, giving AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT the ...
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Alpine Eagle is scaling counter-drone production as Europe races to close its air-defence gap

Munich counter-drone startup Alpine Eagle is scaling Sentinel production with a new facility and a DeltaQuad partnership.
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BBLeap raises €5M to bring plant-level precision spraying to arable farms globally

Dutch agtech startup BBLeap has raised €5M to commercialise its LeapEye camera system and expand LeapBox internationally.
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Austrian startup TACEO launches a network that runs sensitive computation without seeing the underlying data

Austrian startup TACEO has launched the TACEO Network, a private execution layer already live in World ID’s biometric system ...
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Parallel raises €20M to deploy AI agents for hospital administrative work across Europe

Parallel has raised $20M to deploy AI agents that automate medical coding and billing directly on top of existing hospital ...
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eternal.ag raises €8M to put autonomous harvesting robots into greenhouses

German agritech startup he co-founded with Sherry Kunjachan in 2025, announced on Thursday that it has raised €8 million from ...
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Uber and Rivian strike $1.25bn robotaxi deal

Uber will invest up to $1.25bn in Rivian through 2031, targeting a fleet of up to 50,000 autonomous R2 robotaxis across 25 ...
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Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2 enters the top three AI image generators in the world

Microsoft's MAI-Image-2 debuts at #3 on Arena.ai's text-to-image leaderboard, behind Google and OpenAI and begins rolling out on Copilot.
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Gecko Robotics lands $71M Navy deal to send wall-climbing robots inside warships

Gecko Robotics has signed a $71M IDIQ deal with the US Navy to deploy wall-climbing robots and AI digital twins across the ...
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The dummy server and the chip war

The Super Micro indictment isn't just about three men and $2.5bn in smuggled servers. It's about an export control system that was never built to hold.