German consumers throw away 4.4 million tonnes of food every year, worth roughly €6 billion. Austrian startup Afreshed just bet that the solution is consolidation, not competition, acquiring Munich-based rival Etepetete and raising a mid-seven-figure sum to take its organic rescue-box model across the border. The deal, announced on Monday, unites the two largest “ugly […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
An environmental watchdog group has suggested that millions of tons of discarded electronics from the US turn up in Asia and the Middle East each month, according to a report by ABC News. This has cre [...]
A German research consortium has released Soofi S 30B-A3B, an open language model trained entirely on Deutsche Telekom's cloud infrastructure in Munich. The model uses an efficient hybrid archite [...]
The generative AI era has sped everything up for most enterprises we talk to, especially development cycles (thanks to "vibe coding" and "agentic swarming").But even as they seek t [...]
Cologne-based Foodforecast, a startup using artificial intelligence to improve how food with short shelf lives is forecast and produced, has raised €8 million in a Series A funding round as it scale [...]