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The Zurich-based startup, which previously raised €3M to unify fragmented trial data, has secured a larger round to build AI agents that actively manage the complex operational layer of running a clinical trial. Clinical trials are, by almost any measure, one of the most information-intensive processes in modern medicine, and one of the least efficiently […] This story continues at The Next Web
Manus’s new desktop app can read, edit, and act on files and applications directly on a user’s machine. The launch puts Meta’s AI agent ambitions in direct competition with the open-source tool that has dominated the conversation this week. OpenClaw arrived on the internet last month like a weather system. Within days of its release […] This story continues at The Next Web
For most of its fifty-year history, Mastercard has been, in essence, a message-passing network. A transaction happens; Mastercard’s rails carry the authorisation signal between issuer and acquirer in milliseconds; settlement follows on a separate, slower track. The system is extraordinarily reliable and extraordinarily profitable. It is also, increasingly, a system designed for a world that […]...
Polyacrylate is the synthetic crystal at the heart of every modern disposable nappy, is derived from petroleum, and it does not break down. It persists for centuries, leaching microplastics into soil and groundwater as it degrades. The hygiene industry has long regarded it as an engineering necessity: nothing else absorbs as fast, as much, or […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Oslo-based DNV spinout processed over 25,000 bunker operations in 2025 and claims roughly 40% of Singapore’s digital bunkering market. Verb Ventures leads a growth round that brings total funding to $9 million. The paperwork of global shipping is notoriously stubborn. Every fuel delivery to every vessel at every port generates a chain of manual […] This story continues at The Next Web
The 2026 AWS Pioneers cohort spans healthcare, climate, and conflict zones, and lands alongside a stark warning that Europe risks losing its best innovators if the regulatory environment doesn’t change. Amazon Web Services announced today the second annual cohort of its Pioneers Project: twelve European companies using AI and cloud infrastructure to tackle problems that […] This story continues...
Dozens of executives from European tech scaleups have backed a new venture firm built on the thesis that people who have scaled billion-dollar companies know which founders can do it again. For years, the criticism of European venture capital has been structural: too few firms willing to write large cheques, and too little operational experience […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Industry Accord Against Online Scams and Fraud, announced at the UN Global Fraud Summit in Vienna, commits 11 companies to share threat intelligence and coordinate defences against AI-driven fraud at scale. When Google’s vice president of trust and safety stood up at the United Nations Global Fraud Summit in Vienna on Sunday to announce […] This story continues at The Next Web
The startup, which plants millions of decoy assets across cloud environments to catch intruders in the act, closed its Series A led by FirstMark as enterprise security teams warm to deception as a primary detection strategy. The logic of cyber deception is almost disarmingly simple. You leave something valuable-looking in a place where it has […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Berlin startup, now valued at €640M, counts Revolut, N26 and Santander’s Openbank among its clients after processing more than 100 million investment orders last year. Twelve months after its last fundraise, Upvest has done it again, and at a price that suggests Europe’s appetite for investment infrastructure is still accelerating. The Berlin-based fintech announced […] This story continues...