The New York digital comics platform is combining its 300,000-title library with INKR’s AI localisation engine, and bringing in new leadership to execute the expansion. The problem with getting manga into the hands of readers outside Japan is not demand. Manga is the fastest-growing category in American book publishing; global interest has been building for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Pittsburgh startup’s AI platform will create digital twins of Pacific Fleet vessels, starting with 18 ships, as the Navy races to fix a maintenance crisis costing up to $20 billion a year. Roughly 40% of the United States Navy’s fleet is unavailable at any given time. Ships are queued in dry dock. Maintenance cycles […]
Founded by two French serial entrepreneurs who have spent decades in Romania, the platform aims to be a trust-by-design alternative to X and Facebook, with a public launch set for May 2026. A new social media platform that embeds real-time fact-checking directly into the user experience has raised €300,000 in pre-seed funding from Fil Rouge […]
Founded by two French serial entrepreneurs who have spent decades in Romania, the platform aims to be a trust-by-design alternative to X and Facebook, with a public launch set for May 2026. A new social media platform that embeds real-time fact-checking directly into the user experience has raised €300,000 in pre-seed funding from Fil Rouge […]
The all-in-one SaaS platform for independent restaurants, processing 1.5 million orders a month across nine CEE markets, is now targeting Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. Choice, the Prague-founded restaurant management platform that bundles ordering, payments, reservations, and marketplace integrations into a single subscription, has closed a $7.1 million Series A. The round […]