Tower raises €5.5m to empower data engineers in the AI era

The Berlin startup, founded by two ex-Snowflake engineers, wants to be the platform where AI-generated data pipelines go to actually work. The hard part of building with AI is no longer getting the co [...]

Bumble’s AI assistant Bee will learn what you want from a relationship

The dating app unveiled Bee at its Q4 earnings alongside a broader ‘Bumble 2.0’ overhaul, as the company attempts to reverse years of declining user numbers by replacing gamified swiping with AI-d [...]

Tropic raises $105M to scale gene-edited bananas

The Norwich-based agbiotech company launched the first new commercial banana varieties in more than 75 years in 2025. Now it has to build enough supply to meet demand. The world’s favourite fruit is [...]

Anthropic commits $100M to Claude Partner Network

The Claude Partner Network launches as Anthropic fights the Pentagon in court, and doubles down on the commercial relationships that matter most. There is a particular kind of defiance in the timing. [...]

Atlassian is cutting 1,600 jobs and replacing its CTO

In October 2025, Atlassian co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes appeared on the 20VC podcast and said something that now reads rather differently. Technology creation, he argued, is ‘not output-bo [...]

TechEx North America 2026 comes to San Jose for your annual enterprise technology intelligence briefing

TechEx North America will take place on May 18–19, 2026, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, bringing together seven co-located enterprise technology events under one roof to tackle the real [...]

Dublin fintech Teybridge Capital pledges £600 million for UK SMEs

The trade finance platform made the commitment alongside 14 other Irish firms as PM Starmer and Taoiseach Martin unveiled £937 million in Irish investment into the UK. The second UK-Ireland Summit, h [...]

Anthropic’s Amodei heads to the White House as Washington fights over Mythos access

Summary: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday to negotiate access to Mythos, a frontier AI model that can identify and exploit thousands of zero-day v [...]

Salesforce gives Slackbot 30 new AI powers, and a strategy that looks a lot like Microsoft’s

In short: Salesforce unveiled more than 30 new AI capabilities for Slackbot on 31 March 2026, the most sweeping overhaul of the platform since its $27.7 billion acquisition in 2021. The update transf [...]