Irish fleet-safety firm CameraMatics raises up to €49M to take on Samsara in the US
Irish fleet-safety firm CameraMatics raises up to €49M to take on Samsara in the US

An Irish company that uses AI to stop crashes before drivers see them coming has raised up to €49m to expand in North America and Europe. CameraMatics, founded in Dublin in 2016, makes a video-telematics platform for commercial fleets. Its cameras and …

Germany’s Vsquared is taking on Atomico and Balderton on their London home turf
Germany’s Vsquared is taking on Atomico and Balderton on their London home turf

One of Europe’s oldest deep-tech specialists is opening a London office, and pitching it as a fresh expansion into new territory. Companies House tells a slightly different story. Vsquared Ventures, founded in Munich and known for raising one of Europe…

Deezer’s new free tool scans your Spotify and Apple Music playlists for AI slop
Deezer’s new free tool scans your Spotify and Apple Music playlists for AI slop

Deezer has built a free tool that will tell you how much of your music was made by a machine, even if you stream it somewhere else. The French service has opened its AI-music detector to the public, letting anyone scan their playlists on Spotify, Apple…

Mercedes-Benz turns to defence, partnering with startup Tytan to build anti-drone vehicles
Mercedes-Benz turns to defence, partnering with startup Tytan to build anti-drone vehicles

Mercedes-Benz is leaning deeper into defence. The carmaker has signed a memorandum of understanding with TYTAN Technologies, a Munich counter-drone startup, to develop vehicle-based systems that detect and shoot down hostile drones, built on its G-Clas…

ShopAgentic raises €1.9M to build commerce infrastructure for AI shopping agents
ShopAgentic raises €1.9M to build commerce infrastructure for AI shopping agents

A German startup wants to rebuild online commerce for shoppers who are not human. ShopAgentic has raised a €1.9mn pre-seed to do it. May Ventures and Greenfield Capital co-led the oversubscribed round. What ShopAgentic is building ShopAgentic calls its…

Italian fintech unicorn Satispay reportedly plans €120M raise to push into stock trading
Italian fintech unicorn Satispay reportedly plans €120M raise to push into stock trading

Satispay, the Milan-based mobile payments company that became Italy’s second unicorn in 2022, is reportedly planning to raise up to €120 million ($139 million) in fresh funding. The round would fuel the fintech’s expansion beyond payments into stock an…

NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4B in record robotics round backed by Nvidia, Amazon, and Tether
NEURA Robotics raises up to $1.4B in record robotics round backed by Nvidia, Amazon, and Tether

German robotics company NEURA Robotics has announced up to $1.4 billion in Series C funding to scale its cognitive robotics platform. The round values the company at approximately $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. NEURA says it is the largest funding…

Boeing upgrades the Ghost Bat with internal weapons and longer range as it competes with Helsing for German drone orders
Boeing upgrades the Ghost Bat with internal weapons and longer range as it competes with Helsing for German drone orders

Boeing unveiled an upgraded version of its MQ-28 Ghost Bat uncrewed combat aircraft at the ILA Berlin air show on Wednesday, adding an internal weapons bay, a 25% larger wing, and 2,000 pounds of additional payload capacity. The upgrades are designed t…

A German court says Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words, and it’s liable when they’re false
A German court says Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words, and it’s liable when they’re false

A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for false claims its AI Overviews make, treating the AI-written summaries as Google’s own speech rather than ordinary search results. It is one of the first rulings to test who is responsible when…

The ECB moved to rein in Revolut’s ‘self-guided missiles’, just as a share sale values it at $115bn
The ECB moved to rein in Revolut’s ‘self-guided missiles’, just as a share sale values it at $115bn

The European Central Bank quietly moved to rein in Revolut last year, restricting Europe’s most valuable fintech from launching new products across the European Economic Area over concerns about how fast it approved them, the Financial Times reported o…