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EU awards its €180 million sovereign cloud contract to four European providers


Post Telecom (with CleverCloud and OVHcloud), StackIT, Scaleway, and Proximus (with S3NS, a Thales – Google Cloud joint venture, plus Clarence and Mistral) have won the European Commission’s six-year sovereign cloud framework contract. The Proximus consortium’s inclusion signals that non-European technology can qualify as ‘sovereign’ under the Commission’s framework if operated within a sufficiently strict […]



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Sources: Sequoia raised ~$7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a $3.4B vehicle in 2022 (Bloomberg)

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Sources: Sequoia raised ~$7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a $3.4B vehicle in 2022  —  Sequoia Capital, one of the largest and most prominent venture capital firms, has raised about $7 billion for a new fund according …

DeepL launches real-time voice-to-voice translation in 40+ languages


The Cologne-based translation company best known for its text tools has unveiled a full voice product suite covering meetings, conversations, group settings, and an API for enterprise integration. A live demo in Seoul showed one-to-two sentence delays, and DeepL’s CPO acknowledged word order differences between languages remain a fundamental challenge. DeepL, the Cologne-based language AI […]



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Columbia University Will Pay for Elevator at 125th Street Subway Stop

An elevated 1 train station provided transportation to a Columbia University campus on West 125th Street,

After more than five years of prodding from local residents, elected officials and the MTA, Columbia University will partially pay for accessibility upgrades to the No. 1 line’s towering 125th Street station, THE CITY has learned. The Ivy League school will contribute $33 million for an elevator linking the street with the stop’s mezzanine level […]

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AlixLabs closes €15M Series A to commercialise the atomic etching technology


AlixLabs, the Lund-based semiconductor process startup developing Atomic Pitch Splitting (APS™), has completed its €15M Series A with a strategic top-up from Finnish investor Stephen Industries. The company is targeting beta testing with chipmakers in 2026 and manufacturing deployment by 2027. AlixLabs, a deep-tech semiconductor startup based in Lund, Sweden, has closed its €15 million […]



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