AI can screen 15 million molecules in a day. It still can’t cure Alzheimer’s.

The drug discovery revolution is real but radically overstated, the health chatbots are a documented hazard, and the diseases that matter most remain stubbornly unsolved. At Novartis, sometime in late [...]

Berlin’s Cloover secures over $1.2 Billion to build the “Shopify of Energy”

Berlin’s energy transition sector got a defining boost today as Cloover, a climate fintech based in Berlin, announced it has secured more than $1.2 billion in total capital commitments, combining Se [...]

Europe has twice as many climate tech startups as the US — but there’s a catch

Europe is home to twice as many climate tech startups as the US (30,000 vs. 14,300). However, limited access to VC funding is forcing these early-stage companies to seek capital from outside the conti [...]

Mistral CEO: Europe must ‘own and operate’ its AI infrastructure

Mistral CEO and co-founder Arthur Mensch has urged Europe to invest more in AI infrastructure amid fears that the continent is falling behind the US and China in tech development. “It’s important [...]

ByteDance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2.0 as it begins cautious global rollout

Six weeks ago, a video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt on a rooftop went viral. It was, of course, not real. It was generated by Seedance 2.0, ByteDance’s AI video model, and it set off a firestorm [...]

ScaleOps raises $130M to autonomously manage cloud and AI infrastructure

The New York and Israel-based startup, founded by a former Run:ai engineer and professional triathlete, has grown 350%+ year-on-year and counts Adobe, Wiz, DocuSign, and Salesforce among its customers [...]

Anthropic just shipped an OpenClaw killer called Claude Code Channels, letting you message it over Telegram and Discord

The hit open source autonomous AI agent OpenClaw may have just gotten mogged by Anthropic. Today, Anthropic announced Claude Code Channels, a way to hook up its own powerful Claude Code AI agentic har [...]

Opinion: Space startups are pivoting to defence. That’s great for innovation

A few months ago, at the SmallSat Symposium, a panel issued a sobering warning to space startups: do not chase defence dollars at the expense of long-term sustainability. Why? Because companies, parti [...]

Substack CEO informs users of a data breach

The digital publishing platform Substack has told some of its users that their data was stolen in a security breach. The affected account holders had their email addresses and phone numbers scraped in [...]