Paris-based Omniscient ingests 100,000+ sources, press, social, web, video, audio, internal pipelines, and synthesises them into a two-minute executive briefing. Renault is an early client. A global syndicate spanning France, Japan, and the US backed the round. Omniscient, the Paris-based decision intelligence platform built for boards and senior executives, has raised $4.1 million in pre-seed […]
The Zurich platform, which connects 1,500+ ingredient suppliers and 6,000 brands including Givaudan, Symrise, PUIG, and La Prairie, is evolving from a discovery marketplace into a data backbone that plugs directly into suppliers’ PIM systems and brands’ R&D workflows. Hi inov led the round. Covalo, the Zurich-based platform connecting personal care ingredient suppliers with brands, […]
The Paris techbio company screens microbial genomes to find molecules that evolution spent three billion years producing, and claims to have characterised more novel small molecules in 2025 than the rest of the field combined. Alven and Daphni co-led the Series A. Generare, the Paris-based techbio company reading microbial genomes for molecules that drug development […]
WhatsApp has notified approximately 200 users, primarily in Italy, that they were tricked into installing a counterfeit version of the messaging app that was actually government spyware. The fake application was built by SIO, an Italian surveillance technology company that develops spyware for law enforcement and intelligence agencies through its subsidiary ASIGINT. WhatsApp said it […]
Karin Keller-Sutter, Switzerland’s finance minister and the country’s former president, has filed criminal charges for defamation and insult after Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok was prompted by an anonymous user to generate a torrent of sexist and vulgar remarks about her on X. The complaint, filed on 20 March with the Bern public prosecutor’s office, […]
SpaceX has confidentially filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell shares to the public, according to multiple sources familiar with the registration, setting the stage for what would be the largest initial public offering in history and almost certainly making Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. The offering, internally code-named Project Apex, […]
Li Shufu, the billionaire chairman of Geely Holding Group and the man who bought Volvo Cars from Ford for $1.8 billion in 2010, has arrived at a conclusion that many of his peers in the global automotive industry have been slower to reach: the world has too many car factories, and building more of them […]
Somewhere in Hasbro’s network, someone was where they should not have been. The $14.4 billion toy and entertainment conglomerate, owner of Peppa Pig, Transformers, Monopoly, Dungeons & Dragons, Nerf, Play-Doh, and Power Rangers ,disclosed on Wednesday that it had identified unauthorised access to its systems, an intrusion first detected on 28 March that has since […]
Six weeks was all it took. On 9 February, OpenAI switched on advertisements inside ChatGPT for free-tier users in the United States. By late March, the company disclosed that the pilot had crossed $100 million in annualised revenue, drawn more than 600 advertisers, and reached fewer than a fifth of eligible users. Now OpenAI is […]
Isaiah Taylor was sixteen when he decided the nuclear industry had a size problem. Not that reactors were too dangerous or too expensive, though they are both, but that they were simply too big. The multi-gigawatt monuments to Cold War-era engineering that still dot the American landscape were designed for a grid that moved power […]
