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Europe Posted Its Strongest Venture Funding Quarter In 4 Years As UK Gains, M&A Holds Up

In Q2, Europe posted its strongest quarter in four years for venture funding, Crunchbase data shows. All told, Europe-based startups raised $24 billion in the just-ended quarter, up around a third quarter over quarter and two-thirds higher than the $14.4 billion raised in Q2 2025. Within the region, U.K. startups gained significant share in Q2, […]

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Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%

Ivy League college students are, by definition, intelligent. They don’t need to use generative AI to cheat on exams; they could just learn the material. But they also tend to be competitive, ambitious, and overscheduled, so AI can look like an easy shortcut that makes more time in their lives for things that can’t be

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Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself

One of the most horrific cases of allegedly Grok-generated child sex images was shared in a proposed class action lawsuit that was expanded Tuesday. Now, young girls not only accuse X and xAI of building toxic AI “nudify” tools but also of shielding child predators by obstructing police investigations into Grok-generated child sex abuse materials

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