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Nscale helped ByteDance subsidiary access Nvidia chips, swerving US rules — reports

Magic AI raises £8m to take its AI-powered fitness mirror to the US

Anthropic and Nvidia back Basecamp Research in $140m round

‘You cannot hide from AI’: Should we fear AI-led performance reviews?

What if companies could finally use their most valuable data?

Exclusive: Connect Ventures raises $55m in first close of fifth fund to chase deeptech founders

Exclusive: Vsquared and East X Ventures lead £10m seed for rare materials startup

Qdrant’s next chapter: From vector search into physical AI

From one of Europe’s biggest fintech exits to bootstrapping an AI startup: ‘There’s no limitation’

Cloud startup Verda raises $189m in funding round led by Emergence Capital

Exclusive: Mistral acquires adtech startup Pimento in €12.7m cash-and-shares deal, filings show

Exclusive: NIF backs defence startup Terasi in €11m raise

A16z wants to back more European startups — but won’t reopen European office anytime soon

N8n boss: ‘Our goal is to get to 1bn users with fewer than 1,000 employees'

Exclusive: GFC, Firstminute back Palantir and Goldman alums to take on the Big Four

London Demo Day 2026: startups to watch

New solo GP firm backing early-stage AI and deeptech startups hits first close of maiden fund

Europe’s advantage: moving AI from the screen to the real world

UK Sovereign AI Fund in talks to back raise for drug discovery startup

The biggest conversations in US VC right now