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DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine that has spent more than a decade unable to crack Google's grip on the U.S. market, just recorded a 30% surge in installs after Google unveiled its AI-first Search overhaul at I/O — six consecutive days of double-digit growth, including across a Memorial Day weekend when the company typically sees a traffic dip.
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to close a Series H round in the range of $65 billion at a post-money valuation approaching $965 billion, according to figures circulating among investors and reported by financial press.
SpaceX has reportedly filed its S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, setting up what is expected to be the largest IPO in history.
The US economy added jobs last year and inflation fell to 2.4% in January, its lowest figure in months, and the White House declared the inflation crisis over.
Anghami CEO Elie Habib built World Monitor, an open-source geopolitical intelligence dashboard, in days. It now attracts 2 million users — mostly from Asia and the Middle East — revealing a massive, unmet global demand for real-time conflict intelligence that existing media and institutional architectures have failed to serve.
Internet shutdowns are framed as acts of authoritarian overreach, but the profit chains behind them implicate surveillance tech vendors, VPN companies, consulting firms, and financial analysts across the globe. I mapped who benefits when a country goes dark.
A striking figure is circulating through European boardrooms and investor meetings: roughly one in three founder-CEOs across Europe seriously considered stepping down from their own companies in the first half of 2025. The data points to a structural problem the continent's startup ecosystem can no longer treat as a personal matter.
French company FINGREEN AI, an AI-powered ESG platform, is shutting down all operations due to recent regulatory changes from the European Union.
Helsinki-based Epassi acquires Amsterdam-based Alleo to build a unified employee benefits platform.
London-based Procure AI, a company specialised in AI-driven procurement automation solutions, has raised $13M (approximately €11.2M) in seed funding.
Investor behind Revolut and first backer of ElevenLabs unveils Baobab Ventures, a €12.9M fund for pre-seed innovators.
ExRobotics, the Dutch-based company specialised in explosion-proof autonomous inspection robots for the energy and petrochemical industries, has closed the first half of up to €7M in growth capital.
