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Interview on WhatsApp: From Emojis to the Mega Data Leak
Austrian researchers exposed a massive data leak, uncovering 3. 5 billion WhatsApp user profiles....
UK startup Tyten lands €856k investment to modernise facilities-management processes
London-based AI startup Tyten secured €856k to modernize facilities management, focusing on help-desk automation. This investment, along with other 2025 rounds, brings total funding in the sector to approximately €8....
noyb win: Conde Nast fined €750,000 for placing cookies without consent
Brussels levied a €750,000 fine against Condé Nast, publisher of Vanity Fair, for illegally placing cookies without user consent. The French Data Protection Authority (DPA) issued the penalty on November 27, 2025.
Tyten raises £750K to bring AI-powered automation to the global facilities management industry
Tyten, an AI company for facilities management, secured £750,000 in funding to automate workflows and diagnostic tools. The platform aims to modernize the £60 billion UK market by improving efficiency and service outcomes.
Madrid’s Anyformat closes €3.3 million round to scale its agentic OCR and data-sovereignty-focused document tools
Madrid-based Anyformat secured €3. 3 million in a Seed round to scale its AI platform for extracting data from documents....
Ranketta, built by a 21-year-old Czech AI researcher, lands €1 million to measure brand presence in LLMs
Brno-based Ranketta, an AI visibility platform, secured €1 million in pre-Seed funding to help brands understand their presence in AI search. The investment follows other recent AI-focused funding rounds, totaling approximately €13....
WhatsApp: Meta bans AI competitors like ChatGPT and Copilot
Meta is banning AI competitors like Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT from WhatsApp starting in January 2026. This move, enforced through updated terms of service, will impact IT professionals and user chat history.
EU-Startups Podcast | Episode 146: Zuzanna Stamirowska Co-founder and CEO of Pathway
Pathway, a company creating post-transformer AI models, is innovating how AI thinks and adapts, moving beyond traditional limitations. The company has raised over €15 million to bring a new level of contextualized intelligence to organizations like NATO and La Poste.
London’s Neuracore raises €2.5 million to replace ‘Frankenstein’ robotics stacks with unified robot-learning infrastructure
London-based Neuracore secured €2. 5 million in pre-Seed funding to advance its robot-learning platform and accelerate product development....
Norwegian HealthTech startup Noteless raises €3.5 million to tackle doctor burnout
Norwegian healthtech startup Noteless secured €3. 5 million in seed funding to expand its AI-powered clinical documentation platform....
As cancer cases surge toward 35 million by 2050, Finland’s Gosta Labs raises €7.5 million to ease oncology workloads
Finnish HealthTech startup Gosta Labs secured €7. 5 million in seed funding to scale its AI operating system for oncology....
Ranketta receives €1M to improve e-commerce brand performance in AI search
Czech-based AI visibility platform Ranketta secured €1 million in pre-seed funding to help brands optimize their presence in AI search results. The platform, founded in 2025, provides data-driven suggestions for e-commerce and B2B brands, given that AI-influenced spending is projected to reach $750 billion by 2028.
Europe is dismantling its digital rights from within
Brussels weakens digital rights by introducing its new Digital Omnibus, dismantling key safeguards within the GDPR, ePrivacy rules, and the AI Act. This action makes accessing device data easier, lowers protections against discriminatory AI, and weakens limits on automated decision-making.
Future Energy Ventures secures €205M to power the next wave of energy innovation
Future Energy Ventures secured €235 million to invest in digital energy solutions, aiming to reshape the energy landscape. The firm focuses on AI-driven software optimizing grid efficiency and integrating tech into energy systems, backing companies at the Series A and B stages.
Noteless gains €3.5M to free doctors from administrative burden
Oslo-based AI company Noteless secures €3. 5 million to reduce doctors' administrative burdens with its AI-powered documentation tool....
Gosta Labs completes €7.5M seed to scale its AI OS for oncology worldwide
Helsinki-based Gosta Labs secured €7. 5 million in seed funding to scale its AI operating system for oncology globally....
Neuracore raises $3M to power next-gen robots and open robotics research
London-based Neuracore secured a $3 million pre-seed round to accelerate robot learning and deployment, revolutionizing robotics teams. The cloud-based platform, already used by 50+ organizations, allows for quicker data collection to machine learning model deployment.
We already have fake GTA VI videos circulating on the internet and made with AI. The implications are more serious than they seem
Fake trailers for the upcoming game GTA VI, created using AI, have gone viral. The videos, published by channels like Teaser Universe, have garnered hundreds of thousands of views and were even promoted by Google.
Polish HRTech startup Global Work AI secures €2 million to enhance automated applications and launch its AI career assistant
Polish HRTech startup Global Work AI secured €2 million to enhance its AI-powered job search platform focused on job seekers. The investment will deepen its AI features, bringing its total funding to €3....
Clover raises €30M to become the go-to investor for work and education startups
French entrepreneur Samuel Tual launched Clover, a €30 million fund, to back work and education startups. Clover will deploy €100,000 to €200,000 checks in 20-30 investments annually, focusing on AI, productivity tools, and workflow automation.