Chinese BCI startup Gestala raises $21.6M for non-invasive ultrasound brain tech

The startup, founded just two months before its raise, has secured China’s largest early-stage brain-computer interface round, heavily oversubscribed. Phoenix Peng has already built one brain-comput [...]

EU lawmakers deal to ban AI non-consensual intimate deepfakes

A March 11 political agreement on AI Act amendments will add an explicit prohibition on non-consensual intimate AI-generated images, direct fallout from the Grok scandal. It took a scandal, a wave of [...]

Zendesk acquires Forethought in its biggest deal in two decades

The 2018 Startup Battlefield winner is joining Zendesk as the race to own agentic customer service accelerates When Forethought won the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield competition in 2018, ChatGPT was [...]

Uber, Wayve, and Nissan are bringing robotaxis to Tokyo

The three-way MOU marks Uber’s first autonomous vehicle partnership in Japan, and adds Tokyo to a global rollout already targeting ten cities. Tokyo’s streets are, by common consensus, among the m [...]

Neuramancer raises €1.7M to bring forensic AI to deepfake detection

The Bavarian startup is targeting insurance fraud first, and sees Europe’s push for explainable AI as a competitive edge Neuramancer AI Solutions GmbH has closed a €1.7 million pre-seed funding ro [...]

Cleafy raises €12M to stop bank fraud before it starts

The Milan cybersecurity firm’s Series B bets that predictive defence, not reactive detection, is how banks survive the AI fraud wave For more than a decade, Cleafy has been telling banks that waitin [...]

NVIDIA invests $2 billion in Nebius

  NVIDIA has agreed to invest $2 billion in Nebius Group, the Amsterdam-based AI cloud company that emerged from the wreckage of Yandex after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in a deal that pairs a su [...]

ASIC joins global regulators monitoring Anthropic’s Mythos AI for banking system risks

Australia’s markets regulator has publicly confirmed it is watching the development of Anthropic’s Mythos model alongside peer regulators worldwide, adding to a rapidly expanding international reg [...]

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