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DoorDash launches Tasks
Here is one way the AI data economy works in practice in 2026: a DoorDash courier straps on a body camera, washes at least five dishes, holds each one up to the lens for a few seconds, and earns a few...

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Your inbox is someone else’s business model. It doesn’t have to be
There is a moment, usually around the third eerily accurate ad for something you only mentioned in an email, when you start to wonder what exactly your inbox knows about you. The answer, it turns out,...

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Alpine Eagle is scaling counter-drone production as Europe races to close its air-defence gap
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eternal.ag raises €8M to put autonomous harvesting robots into greenhouses
The Cologne startup’s simulation-first approach trains robots in virtual greenhouses before deploying them in real ones, aiming to crack a deployment problem that has frustrated the industry for yea...

Parallel raises €20M to deploy AI agents for hospital administrative work across Europe
Every patient discharge in a European hospital triggers a paperwork cascade. Clinical information from the stay must be converted into standardised codes, the ICD classifications and procedure codes t...

Ringtime raises €1.8M to send AI agents after blue-collar candidates
Recruiters spend hours a day calling, leaving voicemails, and asking the same questions. Ringtime automates the whole thing, and has already found a second home in real estate. There is a well-worn fr...