Bluesky launches group chats and pivots to communities as growth stalls at 44.8 million users
Bluesky launches group chats and pivots to communities as growth stalls at 44.8 million users

Bluesky launched group chats on Thursday and outlined a broader pivot toward community features, a strategic shift for a social network that has so far focused on open public posting. Group chats support up to 50 people in the current release. The comp…

The most AI-obsessed companies spend $7,500 per employee per month. The median spends $11.
The most AI-obsessed companies spend $7,500 per employee per month. The median spends $11.

The top 1% of US companies by AI adoption spend $7,500 per employee per month on AI tools and compute. The median firm spends $11.38. That 680x gap, drawn from the Ramp AI Index, is the clearest picture yet of how unevenly AI spending is distributed ac…

Legal AI startup Legora opens in Madrid, Milan, and Paris as it targets 700 European employees within a year
Legal AI startup Legora opens in Madrid, Milan, and Paris as it targets 700 European employees within a year

Legora, the agentic AI platform for legal professionals, is opening offices in Madrid, Milan, and Paris during Q3 2026, alongside a dedicated engineering hub in London. Hiring across all four locations has begun, with the company targeting a combined E…

Vinted’s CEO says the US is an “enormous opportunity” as the $9B secondhand marketplace plots its Atlantic crossing
Vinted’s CEO says the US is an “enormous opportunity” as the $9B secondhand marketplace plots its Atlantic crossing

Vinted, the Lithuanian secondhand marketplace valued at €8 billion after an €880 million secondary share sale in April, is pushing into the United States and sees an “enormous opportunity” in the American resale market, according to marketplace CEO Ada…

Apple’s WWDC 2026 App Store changes let independent developers bundle subscriptions together
Apple’s WWDC 2026 App Store changes let independent developers bundle subscriptions together

Apple announced a sweeping set of changes to the App Store at WWDC 2026 on Monday, introducing cross-developer subscription bundles, group purchasing, enterprise volume licensing, and an AI-powered discovery system that recommends apps based on a user’…

Kyle Vogt’s Bot Company is being sued for turning an Airbnb into a robot lab
Kyle Vogt’s Bot Company is being sued for turning an Airbnb into a robot lab

A San Francisco Airbnb host is suing The Bot Company, the $2 billion robotics startup founded by ex-Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt, for allegedly using his home as a secret robot testing lab. Sean Donovan claims workers booked his Portola neighbourhood property …

Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking
Ex-DeepMind researchers raised $50M to build AI that figures out which scientific questions are worth asking

London-based AI lab Inherent emerged from stealth on Wednesday with a $50 million seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Radical Ventures. Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures also participated, alongside Ex/Ante, Metaplanet, Macroscopic Ventures, and Mytho…

Berlin’s Stark is raising €300M at a €2.5B valuation. The kamikaze drone maker was founded 18 months ago.
Berlin’s Stark is raising €300M at a €2.5B valuation. The kamikaze drone maker was founded 18 months ago.

Stark, a Berlin-based strike drone startup founded in 2024, is in discussions to raise at least €300 million at a valuation of approximately €2.5 billion, the Financial Times reported. If completed, the deal would more than double the company’s valuati…

Female-founded climate-tech Mykor lands €4.6M to scale mycelium insulation panels
Female-founded climate-tech Mykor lands €4.6M to scale mycelium insulation panels

The Bristol-and-Lisbon climate-tech firm is scaling MykoFoam, a carbon-negative mycelium insulation panel grown from industrial residues at its Portuguese pilot plant. Mykor, the Bristol-headquartered climate-tech firm growing carbon-negative building …

This Zurich startup built a four-armed robot for space stations. Each astronaut hour it saves is worth $140,000.
This Zurich startup built a four-armed robot for space stations. Each astronaut hour it saves is worth $140,000.

Orbit Robotics, a Zurich-based startup, has unveiled Helios, a four-armed robot designed to work inside space stations. In microgravity, legs are useless. Helios replaces them with two extra arms that serve as both mobility aids and working hands. The …