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The Paris-based AI company has closed a €3 billion funding round led by Samsung Electronics, valuing it at more than €21 billion and marking Europe's largest technology equity raise to date.
America's road safety agency has opened a probe into Tesla's Cybercab robotaxi, hours after the vehicles began carrying passengers in Austin, Texas. The investigation covers roughly 1,000 vehicles and at least nine crashes, including one that killed a pedestrian.
Souk, a London-founded software startup, has secured pre-seed funding led by Sure Valley Ventures to build an AI system that finds and reactivates underperforming referral partners for B2B companies.
Tech.eu's latest weekly recap tracked more than 35 funding deals across Europe, a slower week compared with the totals recorded through most of August 2026.
Venture investment in space and satellite startups has already hit an all-time high in 2026, with four months still to go, as capital piles into a handful of massive late-stage rounds.
VitalFluid, a spin-out from Eindhoven University of Technology, has closed a €17.2 million Series A round to expand plasma-activated water technology as a residue-free alternative to chemical fungicides.
The London-based fintech, known for banking without branches, is opening a branded lounge at Copenhagen Airport in 2027, the first in a planned European network.
Anthropic has published technical detail on the invisible watermark now embedded in text and code generated by its Claude chatbot, a measure driven by the EU AI Act. The company says the mark can survive light editing but does not alter the substance of what Claude produces.
Bengaluru-based Yulu has secured $93 million to grow its rental fleet fourfold to 200,000 electric two-wheelers, as India's rapid grocery and parcel delivery apps push demand for gig-worker transport.
River AI, founded by former xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has raised $1.1 billion in seed and Series A funding barely four months after incorporation. The Palo Alto startup wants companies and eventually individuals to train and own custom AI models rather than rent general-purpose ones.
OpenAI has folded NextSlide, a startup that turned notes and documents into slide decks, into its ChatGPT team. The deal closed earlier this year but was only announced this week.
Klaviyo, a publicly traded e-commerce marketing platform, has agreed to acquire the AI customer support startup Agency. Its founder, serial entrepreneur Elias Torres, will join Klaviyo as chief product officer to lead its AI agent efforts.
The US Justice Department says OpenAI and its former subsidiary Statsig discouraged American citizens from applying for jobs earmarked for foreign workers seeking permanent residence. The AI company denies wrongdoing but has agreed to three years of federal monitoring.
The San Francisco cybersecurity firm behind an AI system that autonomously hacks networks to find flaws has secured fresh funding as European and global firms shift from annual penetration tests to continuous, automated security checks.
Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital has led a $1 billion funding round for Valar Atomics, tripling the small reactor developer's valuation to $6 billion after it powered an Nvidia chip with fission-generated electricity.
California startup Antares Nuclear has closed a $470 million funding round to deploy compact nuclear reactors at US military installations by 2028, racing to meet a deadline set by presidential executive order.
Spur Intelligence, a Florida cybersecurity startup, has secured $200 million from Insight Partners to scale its platform that identifies bot traffic, VPNs, and residential proxies in real time.