Artificial Intelligence
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Down the Stack Into Chips, Energy and the Physical World
AI is no longer attracting capital as a single technology category. It is starting to pull entire industries into its orbit. This week, investors backed everything from AI data infrastructure and photonic networking to physical-AI processors, energy systems, construction robotics, satellite computing, healthcare and fintech. The breadth matters because the funding is no longer clustering […]
AGI vs ASI: The Difference That Could Define AI’s Next Era
Artificial general intelligence and artificial superintelligence are often discussed as if they are simply two stages of increasingly powerful AI. The difference is more important than that. In its From AGI to ASI report, Google DeepMind uses AGI to describe AI with roughly human-level general intelligence. ASI sets a much higher bar: intelligence that broadly […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Into Execution, Security and Physical AI
AI funding this week was less about another race for the biggest model and more about everything required to put advanced intelligence to work. Capital moved into autonomous workflows, AI evaluation, runtime security, observability, developer infrastructure and enterprise data. Outside software, investors backed robotics, quantum computing, neural chips, satellite communications, healthcare infrastructure and agricultural intelligence. […]
Autentic AI Raises €1.5M to Compress Market Research From Weeks to Days
Traditional qualitative research has a scaling problem: companies want the “why” behind customer behavior, but interviewing enough people can take weeks and require large agency budgets. Barcelona-based Autentic AI has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding from Baobab Ventures, Lanai Ventures, Acurio Ventures and Masia VC to attack that bottleneck with AI. The company plans […]
AI Shopping Agents Can Now Buy for You, but Who Pays When They Make Mistakes?
AI used to be wrong inside a chat box. Now it can be wrong while buying something, sending a message, booking your day or acting inside an account. That changes the cost of a mistake. Recent examples documented by The Wall Street Journal show just how quickly convenience can turn into exposure. Personal AI agents […]
Finches Raises €2M for AI Agricultural Sourcing Intelligence
Knowing that a growing region is getting hotter is not yet a procurement decision. A food manufacturer needs to know whether that heat threatens the specific crop variety it buys, which supplier and contract are exposed, whether quality specifications are likely to become harder to meet and whether there is still time to sample differently, […]
Cleavr Raises €8M to Turn Invoice Collection Into an Autonomous Finance Workflow
An overdue invoice rarely stays a simple overdue invoice. One customer promises to pay on Wednesday. Another says the amount is wrong. A third asks for three instalments. Someone else ignores email but answers the phone. Even after money arrives, the payment still has to be matched against the correct invoice and reflected in the […]
Nettle Raises $4.8M to Scale the AI Workspace Behind Insurance Loss Control
For complex commercial risks, an underwriter can know the business, location and requested coverage and still lack the physical evidence needed to understand what could actually go wrong. Factories, warehouses and construction sites may require engineering surveys covering fire protection, machinery, operational controls and other hazards before an insurer can properly evaluate the risk. The […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Builds the Full Stack From Agents to Physical AI
AI funding this week looked less like one market and more like an entire technology stack being financed simultaneously. At one end, investors wrote enormous checks for autonomous agents, cybersecurity, GPU infrastructure and physical AI. At the other, smaller rounds targeted sharply defined problems in compliance, construction, insurance, HR, industrial robotics, voice, energy and legal […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Into the Missing Layers of the AI Economy
AI funding this week looked less like a race to build another model and more like a race to build everything those models need. Capital moved into training data, AI clouds, enterprise agents, security and governance. At the same time, hundreds of millions flowed toward drug discovery, brain-computer interfaces, photonics, advanced materials, energy infrastructure and […]
Claude Opus 5.5 Explained: Why Cost per Task Matters More Than Token Price
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, as the first model in its Claude 5.5 family. It costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, supports a 1 million-token context window, and can produce up to 128,000 output tokens in normal use. Those specifications tell only part of the […]
Project Ventures Wants to Turn Imperial’s Alumni Network Into Deeptech Investment Infrastructure
The London-based firm, Project Ventures has launched a £5 million debut fund for pre-seed and seed companies emerging from or connected to the Imperial College London ecosystem. Initial investments will typically range from £100,000 to £300,000, with Project Ventures targeting startups where AI converges with science and engineering across areas including robotics, healthcare, climate, energy […]