This season on Build Mode, weâre diving into what it takes to build a world-class founding team. This week weâre exploring different kinds of co-founder dynamics and what it takes to build a startup with your family.
Cleafy Secures €12M to Prevent Bank Fraud Proactively
The Milan cybersecurity firmâs Series B bets that predictive defence, not reactive detection, is how banks survive the AI fraud wave For more than a decade, Cleafy has been telling banks that waiting for fraud to happen before responding to it is a losing strategy. The Milan-based cybersecurity firm has now raised â¬12 million in […]
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NVIDIA Makes $2 Billion Investment in Nebius
 NVIDIA has agreed to invest $2 billion in Nebius Group, the Amsterdam-based AI cloud company that emerged from the wreckage of Yandex after Russiaâs invasion of Ukraine, in a deal that pairs a substantial capital injection with a deep technical partnership aimed at deploying more than 5 gigawatts of NVIDIA-powered compute capacity by the […]
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Endform Raises €1.5M as Faster AI-Generated Code Increases Pressure
The Swedish testing startup has secured seed funding to take on the CI pipeline bottleneck in the age of AI-generated code. The code review has always had a bottleneck, not the code itself, but the wait. As test suites swell alongside faster development cycles, engineering teams have increasingly found themselves staring at CI pipelines that […]
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Gestala, a Chinese BCI startup, raises $21.6M for non-invasive ultrasound brain technology
The startup, founded just two months before its raise, has secured Chinaâs largest early-stage brain-computer interface round, heavily oversubscribed. Phoenix Peng has already built one brain-computer interface company. NeuroXess, his first venture, develops implantable BCI systems designed to restore communication and motor function for people with severe neurological conditions. His second company, Gestala, takes a […]
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Can a $250 Alarm Clock Cure My Doomscrolling Habit? I Slept Beside the Dreamie for a Month to Discover.
We’ve tested the Ambient Dreamie, a $250 smart alarm clock that promises a truly phone-free bedtime routine. It doesn’t require an app or subscription.
Apple’s iPhone Fold to Feature Side-by-Side App Functionality, Report Claims
Apple’s iPhone Fold will have an “iPad-like interface” when opened, new report claims.
Google Utilizes Historical News and AI to Forecast Flash Floods
A new way to solve data scarcity: Turning qualitative reports into quantitative data with an LLM.
Assistance for Gemini at Home Significantly Enhanced with Major Patch Update
Google has acknowledged the slow response times of its AI when it comes to user commands and has initiated measures to resolve the problem. The chief product officer for Home, Anish Kattukaran, revealed a major update to the Gemini voice assistance system. This enhancement aims to lower latency by about 30% to 40%, providing a faster and more responsive experience for users. The upgrade primarily focuses on frequently used voice requests, such as switching off lights, and has also significantly decreased error rates. Users have indicated that previous latency problems made the AI seem more like a novelty, with response times of 10 to 15 seconds for basic commands. The update has now been completely implemented, improving the user experience with more effective and dependable AI interactions.
EU Lawmakers Reach Deal to Ban Non-Consensual Intimate Deepfakes Using AI
A March 11 political agreement on AI Act amendments will add an explicit prohibition on non-consensual intimate AI-generated images, direct fallout from the Grok scandal. It took a scandal, a wave of regulatory anger, and a coalition of 57 European Parliament members to get there, Â but the EUâs landmark AI Act will now contain an […]
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