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Legora CEO says software sovereignty is an excuse not to compete globally

Legora co-founder and chief executive Max Junestrand says calls for European sovereignty in software are an excuse for companies that are not bold enough to go global. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. “I think sovereignty in enterprise applications, or sovereignty in consumer apps, or sovereignty at the software layer is […]

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Station F and Anthropic say the AI boom is drawing startups back in person

AI makes it possible to build a company from anywhere, but founders are still choosing to sit together, Station F director Roxanne Varza and Anthropic’s Aiden Blake said. They spoke on a panel at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. “What’s really interesting is we’re seeing more and more people coming since the ‘AI […]

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Odyssey-3 drives a car in India and runs humanoids from one world model

Odyssey has launched Odyssey-3, a world model that the Palo Alto AI lab says can control robot arms and humanoids, drive a car, fly drones and play video games. A research preview is available now, the company said on Thursday. World models learn from large amounts of visual data to predict how a scene will […]

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Europe’s startups had their best quarter in 4 years, Crunchbase data shows

European startups raised $25bn in the third quarter, their strongest quarter for venture funding in four years. In North America, startup funding fell 35% from the previous quarter to $92bn, Crunchbase data shows. Europe’s total was up 77% on the $14bn raised in the third quarter of 2025, Gené Teare reported for Crunchbase News on […]

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VEIR raises $110M to swap copper for superconductors in AI data centres

VEIR has raised $110 million in a Series C round. The Massachusetts company makes superconducting power cables for AI data centres. Matter Venture Partners and Tyche Partners co-led the round, which VEIR called oversubscribed. LG Technology Ventures, Gates Frontier, Sabanci Climate Ventures and Hui Capital joined as new investors. Existing backers also took part, including […]

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Voltus raises $225M to turn homes and batteries into power for data centres

Voltus has raised $225 million in a Series D round. The San Francisco company pays businesses and homes to cut, shift or supply power when the grid needs it. Generation Investment Management led the round, with Activate Capital and the energy trader Vitol as co-leads. Broadscale Group, Climate Investment, NGP, Ajax Strategies and All Aboard […]

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Oratomic reportedly hits $5.4bn as Gartner sees quantum revenue top $1bn

Quantum computing startup Oratomic has raised $475 million at a $5.4bn valuation, Isabelle Bousquette reported for The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. The round came three months after its Series A and lifted its valuation from $1.5bn. The same day, British startup Universal Quantum announced a Series A of more than $100 million. Gartner then […]

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NHS South East rolls out skin cancer AI that can discharge patients alone

NHS England’s South East region is rolling out an AI that can discharge patients with harmless skin lesions without a dermatologist seeing them. DERM, made by London-based Skin Analytics, goes live in all 18 NHS trusts there from this autumn. It will cover another 9 million people. Skin Analytics announced the rollout on Wednesday and […]

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Miro CEO says companies must redesign work around AI, not bolt it on

Miro co-founder and chief executive Andrey Khusid says adding AI to existing teams and processes will not deliver its full productivity gains. Companies need to redesign how work happens from the ground up, he said. He spoke at Wave by Vento in Turin on Wednesday. “One of the big challenges is how not to put […]

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DoorDash’s Tony Xu says AI agents will increase demand for human labour

DoorDash co-founder and chief executive Tony Xu says more AI agents will mean more demand for physical delivery networks, and even for human labour. He spoke on Wednesday at Wave by Vento in Turin, in a session titled “Inside the Making of DoorDash”. AI agents have probably already overtaken humans in the number of things […]

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