Jul 01, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
British-founded startup Build has raised $8.5 million to automate the early-stage paperwork that precedes data centre construction. The company's AI platform pulls from over 1,600 data sources to conduct site sourcing, technical due diligence, and environmental checks in hours instead of weeks. Led by Index Ventures, the seed round includes angel investors from OpenAI and Blackstone. Build has already completed over 100 projects across 15 countries.
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Jul 01, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Portugal has released Amália, its first national large language model built specifically for European Portuguese, fully open-sourced with weights, datasets, and code. The project, funded with €5.5M, aims to reduce dependency on US and Chinese AI systems while serving public services like education, tourism, and defense. It leverages the EuroLLM-9B foundation and includes multimodal capabilities for text and images.
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Jul 01, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
MDOTM, a London-founded fintech, has raised $27 million in growth equity to expand its AI platform Sphere, which automates portfolio rebalancing and client reporting for wealth managers. The platform now supports over $100 billion in assets across 60+ institutions. The investment, led by Expedition Growth Capital, will fund US and European expansion.
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Jul 01, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Palantir published a nine-point manifesto on AI sovereignty, attacking token-based pricing as 'false progress' and urging organizations to own their data and model weights. The principles align perfectly with Palantir’s on-premise deployment business. However, European governments are using the same sovereignty argument to question reliance on any single American vendor, including Palantir.
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Jul 01, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
UiPath shares have rebounded 15% after reporting its first-ever Q1 profit and revenue growth of 17%. The Romanian-founded automation firm is betting big on AI agents as a control layer for enterprises. Analysts remain divided on whether the strategic pivot will sustain momentum, but the company's quarterly results signal a turnaround.
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Jul 01, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Martin Scorsese présente en avant-première mondiale « Aldeas, the Final Dream of Pope Francis » au Vatican, un an après la mort du pontife. Ce projet culturel supervisé par le célèbre réalisateur dévoile le dernier témoignage filmé du pape François. Le film, tourné dans plusieurs pays, sera projeté dans le cadre des événements commémoratifs. Parallèlement, une querelle oppose le pape Léon XIV à Donald Trump sur fond de tensions géopolitiques.
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Jul 01, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Turkey's Ay Yıldız Müşterek Karargâhı (Crescent and Star Joint Headquarters) begins symbolic operations with a press briefing and NATO reception. The massive complex, larger than the Pentagon, will house all defense commands under one roof. Construction is ongoing, with full move-in planned by 2028. The older General Staff building will become a museum.
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Jul 01, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
This article compiles the most significant news stories about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Salman, covering his domestic modernization drive, international relations, the Khashoggi assassination, and economic diversification efforts.
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Jul 01, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provoked a backlash after joking that he lost weight following the October 7 Hamas attack. Opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot called the comment 'disconnected from reality' and renewed calls for a state inquiry into the security failures.
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