Sequoia raises $7 billion for its biggest-ever late-stage fund
Sequoia raises $7 billion for its biggest-ever late-stage fund

The Silicon Valley institution has closed roughly $7 billion for its expansion strategy fund, nearly doubling its comparable 2022 vehicle. Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, who took over as co-stewards in November 2025, are making the raise their opening state…

Samsung turns its smart home into a remote care system for ageing families
Samsung turns its smart home into a remote care system for ageing families

In short: Samsung has updated SmartThings with family care features that use connected appliances and wearables to monitor elderly relatives remotely, including fall detection via robot vacuum camera, cognitive decline screening through behavioural pat…

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance

In short: Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable generally available model, with benchmark-leading scores on SWE-bench Pro (64.3% vs GPT-5.4’s 57.7%), multi-agent coordination for hours-long workflows, 3x higher image resolution, and …

The fintech that pivoted because of Kanye West just hit a $1.4B valuation with $100M from Khosla and Ribbit
The fintech that pivoted because of Kanye West just hit a $1.4B valuation with $100M from Khosla and Ribbit

Slash, the vertical banking platform built by two college dropouts, has raised a $100M Series C backed by Khosla Ventures and Ribbit Capital. The company’s valuation has nearly quadrupled since its May 2025 Series B, the latest leg of a comeback story …

Cambridge biotech STORM Therapeutics raises $56M
Cambridge biotech STORM Therapeutics raises $56M

STC-15 is the world’s first RNA-modifying enzyme inhibitor to reach human trials. Phase 1 showed durable tumour regression across multiple sarcoma subtypes. The $56M Series C is backed entirely by existing investors including Pfizer Ventures and M Vent…

Spektr raises $20M to replace the compliance analyst’s copy-paste workflow with AI agents
Spektr raises $20M to replace the compliance analyst’s copy-paste workflow with AI agents

The Copenhagen fintech has built a platform of specialised AI agents that handle KYC and KYB work, document reviews, ownership mapping, risk rationale, in minutes rather than hours. NEA led the Series A; Northzone, Seedcamp, and PSV Tech participated. …

The EU has told Google what it must do to share search data with rivals
The EU has told Google what it must do to share search data with rivals

The European Commission today sent Google its preliminary findings under the Digital Markets Act, proposing six specific measures governing how Google must share search ranking, query, click, and view data with competing search engines. AI chatbots wit…

Exclusive: Make opens a mentorship office at STATION F
Exclusive: Make opens a mentorship office at STATION F

The Celonis-owned visual automation platform, which already has more than 200 STATION F startups on its programme, is putting a permanent on-campus presence in Paris as it targets France as a strategic growth market. One-on-onementorship, workshops, an…

UK banks get their Mythos briefing within days
UK banks get their Mythos briefing within days

The Bank of England’s Cross Market Operational Resilience Group will convene within days to brief major UK banks, insurers, and exchanges about Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview. This unreleased AI model regulators say can autonomously identify and exp…

Apple secretly threatened to pull Grok from the App Store over deepfake nudes
Apple secretly threatened to pull Grok from the App Store over deepfake nudes

A letter Apple sent to US senators, obtained by NBC News, reveals that Apple rejected an initial Grok update and warned the app could be removed unless xAI made further changes. Only a second submission passed. Apple privately threatened to remove Grok…