A new venture firm called Extelligence Invest named Yann LeCun, Meta's former chief AI scientist, as a partner on Friday morning, but within about eight hours the website went dark, LeCun withdrew, an…
Gradium, an AI startup spun out of Kyutai, raised a $100 million seed extension backed by Nvidia to accelerate development of real-time speech models and expand into the San Francisco Bay Area. The fu…
Swedish AI startup Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a valuation between $13 billion and $13.2 billion, more than doubling its December valuation. The company, which lets users build apps b…
Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation, roughly double its December Series B valuation, according to Sifted. The company has surpassed $500 …
European generative and agentic AI startups have raised €20bn since 2024, with €8bn secured in 2026, as investor focus shifts from growth to durability, according to Sifted. Tencent's Dr Ling Ge and f…
Sifted's Martin Coulter proposed the acronym BRIOCHE to group seven European tech companies—Bolt, Revolut, Iceye, Oura, Celonis, Helsing and ElevenLabs—into a single narrative spanning mobility, satel…
Sifted polled 17 tech professionals, including CEOs and HR experts, for advice on hybrid AI-human offices, reporting that AI has disproportionately hit entry-level roles, some companies have stopped h…
Greek robotics startup Acumino raised $11.7 million in seed funding to scale commercial deployments of its hardware-agnostic physical AI for dexterous industrial automation tasks. The company was sele…
French AI startup Mistral publicly positioned its open-source models as an alternative after the US government ordered Anthropic to cut access to two models for foreign nationals. Mistral CEO Arthur M…
The US Commerce Department issued an export-control directive on June 12 requiring Anthropic to suspend access to its latest AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for foreign nationals, prompting the compa…
Paris-based AI scaleup Mistral is in early-stage talks to raise approximately €3 billion at a valuation near €20 billion, according to reports from Sifted and Bloomberg. The potential round would brin…
Europe's AI boom faces three major risks: heavy reliance on US infrastructure and foundational models, potential redundancy as American models like Claude and ChatGPT expand into European applications…
London-based Gigaton has raised a $26m Series A round led by investor Plural. The company uses artificial intelligence to reduce energy consumption and costs in manufacturing.…
Swedish AI company Sana requires new employees to spend a week on a small island outside Stockholm as part of its onboarding process. New hires join a group chat asking about their cooking plans and s…
A new wave of consumer startups, including Hermo, Molo, and Poppy, is building AI-driven tools to automate parenting logistics such as scheduling and reminders. Hermo, founded by Jenna Blaicher-Brown …