The European Investment Fund is raising a €15 billion fund of funds called ETCI 2 that aims to unlock up to €80 billion in scaleup funding across Europe. Germany’s WIN initiative is targeting €12 billion by 2030. France’s Tibi programme has pledged €7 billion in private capital and labelled 92 VC and growth funds with […]
Summary: Zoom has partnered with World, Sam Altman’s biometric identity company, to let meeting participants verify they are human using World’s Deep Face technology, which cross-references iris-scanned biometric profiles with live video to display a “Verified Human” badge. The feature responds to deepfake fraud that cost businesses over $200 million in Q1 2025 alone, including […]
Uber has launched a service that sends a gig worker to your door to collect items you want to return to a retailer, for $5 a pickup. The feature, called Return a Package, is available in the Uber Eats app across nearly 5,000 US cities and works with nine retail partners including Target, Best Buy, […]
Intel has launched its Core Series 3 processors, codenamed Wildcat Lake, in what amounts to a direct response to the MacBook Neo. The new chips, announced on 16 April, target the same budget laptop segment that Apple redefined last month with its $599 machine, and they arrive with a familiar pitch: more choice, more AI […]
The storage company is launching a Dropbox file app, a Dropbox Dash enterprise search app, and a Reclaim AI calendar app inside ChatGPT, letting users access, save, and act on their work without leaving the AI interface. The move is the latest sign that ChatGPT is positioning itself as a productivity operating system, not just […]
The Cologne-based translation company best known for its text tools has unveiled a full voice product suite covering meetings, conversations, group settings, and an API for enterprise integration. A live demo in Seoul showed one-to-two sentence delays, and DeepL’s CPO acknowledged word order differences between languages remain a fundamental challenge. DeepL, the Cologne-based language AI […]
In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs GPT-5.4’s 57.7%), multi-agent coordination for hours-long workflows, 3x higher image resolution, and a 14% improvement in multi-step agentic reasoning with a third of the tool errors. Priced at $5/$25 per million tokens, it […]
