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Europe’s AI activity is being shaped by steady, defensible progress. Biotics AI’s FDA clearance shows regulated markets slowly opening, while investors like Prototype Capital continue measured bets on robotics and physical AI. Meanwhile, Meta’s pullback from Horizon Worlds reflects softer engagement in immersive platforms, pointing to a growing preference for AI with clear, practical use cases.
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Seven bullets of updates
🤰Biotics AI’s ultrasound tool can now spot fetal abnormalities in seconds after FDA greenlights its AI software.
🕶️ VR takes a backseat as Meta’s metaverse ambitions shrink—user engagement in Horizon Worlds fell by 42% in 2025, signaling a rapid shift toward AI dominance .
🛡️ Startups tighten security as demand rises for AI tools that detect shadow IT and block rogue AI use—witness 3x growth in VC funding.
🤖 AI is rapidly revaluing job roles, with 23% of tasks already automated—adaptation matters more than ever.
🏭 Industrial quality management just got a boost with €500k raised for smarter, more efficient processes at scale.
🎓 Ukrainian edtech firm Choice31 snaps up IAMPM, adding 5,000+ product management students to its learning suite.
🤖 Prototype Capital’s Fund III drives a 56x return wave in robotics and physical AI bets as hype heats up.
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Growth so good it reopened the round
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Higgsfield is a gen-AI video startup selling short-form content production to social and marketing teams, blurring the line between consumer tools and enterprise software.
The company says it’s hit a $200M revenue run rate and has reopened its Series A to raise another $80M, valuing the business at $1.3B—proof that strong momentum can give even a closed round a second act.
If accurate, this is one of the fastest ramps in gen-AI apps, driven not by meme culture but by professional social teams pulling real spend from B2B budgets. The risk: run rate isn’t durable ARR, and usage-based revenue is sensitive to GPU, media, and licensing costs. Infrastructure will be decisive. As bigger brands come into scope, expect Higgsfield to lean into enterprise features like brand safety, compliance, and regional moderation ahead of a true Series B.
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The REAL story of how Elon "stole" Tesla
Discover the untold story of Tesla's origins and the controversy over Elon Musk's role as a founder. We dive into the early days with Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, the dramatic takeover by Musk, and the lawsuit that followed. Who are the true founders? Watch and decide for yourself.
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What founders need to know about Europe’s AI push
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Europe, increasingly uneasy about its dependence on the US, is accelerating a push for AI self-sufficiency—essentially a “build-it-yourself” AI stack, GPUs not included. The goal: reduce reliance on American platforms while keeping strategic control at home.
DeepSeek’s rise has sharpened that conviction. It showed policymakers that smarter model architecture can sometimes outperform brute-force compute, reinforcing Europe’s bias toward efficiency over scale. The response is taking shape as an open-source-first strategy, paired with more UK and EU funding, lighter regulation, and a controversial procurement-led approach to create early demand—all while trying to avoid long-term lock-in to US vendors.
What it means: Founders could see easier access to public compute and government contracts, particularly for local-language and region-specific models. The downside is familiar: policy reversals, fragmented standards across countries, and a persistent performance gap with US AI leaders.