Monday.com is becoming an investor. The Israeli work-management company has launched Monday Ventures, a corporate fund that will put up to $200m into startups building the next generation of workplace AI, according to a report in the Israeli business daily Globes. The money is already moving. Monday Ventures will deploy an initial $50m, with anything […]
American Express acquires TheFork, the European restaurant-reservation platform, from Tripadvisor for $700m in cash. The payments company announced the proposed deal on Monday, adding a booking network of more than 50,000 restaurants across 11 European countries to a dining business it has been quietly assembling for years. The structure is an all-cash put-option agreement, a […]
Tesla put self-published safety statistics in front of regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands that independent traffic-safety researchers say amount to misleading marketing, according to a Reuters review of correspondence obtained through public-records requests. The data was part of the company’s push to win wider European approval for its Full Self-Driving system, in a region where Tesla […]
France took over the G7 this week with Emmanuel Macron pressing artificial intelligence to the front of the agenda and, with it, a good deal of his own standing. The summit runs from 15 to 17 June, and the pitch is straightforward: position France as Europe’s AI powerhouse, running on the country’s plentiful nuclear electricity. […]
Britain is expected to set out restrictions on how children under 16 use social media, in a package that could ban access to the main platforms and curb features judged too addictive for young users, according to reporting on the government’s plans. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is said to have decided to go further after speaking […]
Baidu’s robotaxis are heading to the Alps. AmiGo, a venture between the Chinese giant’s Apollo Go robotaxi unit and Swiss Post’s PostBus, has won a special permit from Switzerland’s Federal Roads Office for Level 4 autonomous driving, Baidu said. Level 4 means the vehicle drives itself within a defined area. Open-road trials began on 1 […]
Thena Capital has closed its first fund at £45m ($60.4m), the London venture firm announced this week, after a £27m first close in March 2025. The fund backs early-stage British medical-technology companies, and it is now fully closed. The milestone is not only the money. Thena is the first all-female general partner team to win […]
Mistral is in funding talks to raise about €3bn ($3.5bn) at a valuation of roughly €20bn, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the discussions. That would nearly double the price investors put on Europe’s leading AI startup just months ago. The talks are early, and the terms could change. The valuation may even […]
