Spotify will label accounts that produce AI-generated music with an 'AI Persona' badge starting mid-September, and such profiles will be excluded from algorithmic recommendations, the company announce…
Neko Health, the body-scanning startup founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, raised $700 million from investors including Mark Zuckerberg and will.i.am and plans to open its first U.S. clinic in New York th…
Helsing, Europe's largest defence startup, raised $1.8bn in a Series E round at an $18bn valuation, led by Dragoneer and Lightspeed, with significant investments from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs gro…
Helsing asked employees to switch out of an employee stock option plan in May 2026 as the European defense-AI company works toward its largest financing yet, Bloomberg reported. The change moves staff…
Stockholm produces AI-era founders at a rate nearly matching Silicon Valley, driven by the city's unique compression of industries and institutional support for cross-disciplinary talent. The E-shaped…
Germany is awarding a €580mn contract to Munich AI firm Helsing to build the software brain for its future air warfare system, the Combat Fighter System Nucleus, after the joint Franco-German fighter …
Bot traffic has officially surpassed human traffic on the internet, according to a report cited in a roundup of June 2026 web wanderings. The Bank of England is asking the public to vote on animals fo…
Spotify has overhauled its ad tech stack with Spotify Ad Exchange and introduced generative AI tools for voice overs and ad scripts to reposition itself as more than an audio buy. The company aims to …