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€4M seed to end the AI integration nightmare. Milan-based Alomana just closed its first institutional round. The company builds Alo, an AI operating layer designed to execute autonomous workflows across data, documents, applications, and code. Most enterprise AI efforts stall at the prototype stage, months of integrations and testing that never reach production. Alo abstracts that complexity away, letting organisations deploy personalised AI across existing systems from day one. Read more: https://lnkd.in/d7Q7Ki_r

30,000 people flew in from 190 countries for this moment. NVIDIA's GTC 2026 is live in San Jose, running through 19 March. Jensen Huang takes the stage at the SAP Center today for a two-hour keynote watched by hundreds of thousands more online. TNW is at GTC 2026 all week. Follow us for the latest. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dpAaUm9D

Enterprise leaders are meeting in San Jose this May. Techex North America 2026 brings 7 co-located enterprise technology events under one roof. Two days of discussion across AI, cybersecurity, cloud, IoT, edge computing, and data centers. A new Physical AI track explores how AI moves from models into robotics, industrial systems, and autonomous infrastructure. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dcv8rsPX

A $1B seed with no product and no revenue. Europe's startup ecosystem just wrapped one of its most active funding weeks on record. 2 deals alone, Nscale in London and AMI Labs in Paris, accounted for nearly $3 billion. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dK_KXGZZ

Spotify finally lets you fix your own algorithm. For a decade, the platform watched what you played, noted what you skipped, and never told you what it concluded. That changes now. Co-CEO Gustav Söderström announced Taste Profile at SXSW: a feature that surfaces the data model Spotify has built about you, and lets you edit it directly. More than 80% of Spotify listeners say personalisation is what they value most about the service. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dts9BKDy

Google Maps now talks back and actually understands you. Ask Maps, Google's new Gemini-powered feature, lets you query navigation in plain language. "My phone is dying, where can I charge it without a long wait for coffee?" — that's a real query Maps can now handle. It also learns from you: past searches and saved places shape what surfaces, without you having to specify. This is Google's most significant Maps update in over a decade, and its clearest move yet to keep Gemini at the centre of a product used by over 1 billion people monthly. Read more: https://lnkd.in/d7WFYfMh

Travis Kalanick ran a secret company for 8 years. While everyone assumed his post-Uber life was CloudKitchens, he was building a robotics company from scratch. The real bet is Atoms: purpose-built industrial robots for the unglamorous work humanoid machines can't do reliably yet. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dnTh23S9

Ramp acquired Billhop. The European expansion starts now. This summer, for the first time, companies headquartered in the UK and EU will be able to sign up to Ramp directly. The timing is pointed: Ramp's biggest US rival, Brex, is in the middle of a $5.15 billion acquisition by Capital One. Ramp, meanwhile, surpassed $1 billion in annualised recurring revenue in October 2025 and now processes over $100 billion in purchases annually. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dw3z852M

Teybridge Capital is betting £600 million on British SMEs. The Dublin-based trade finance fintech made the pledge at this week's UK-Ireland Summit in Cork. Teybridge Capital (Europe) Limited was founded just four years ago, and the UK already makes up 60% of its lending portfolio. The company plans to hire 30 new people at its London office over the next three years. Read more: https://lnkd.in/d-YeCYKp

The 'SaaSpocalypse' just claimed 1,600 Atlassian jobs. In October 2025, CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes said Atlassian would employ more engineers in five years, not fewer. Five months later, he sent a memo cutting 10% of the global workforce. More than 900 of those roles are in software research and development. The company's shares have fallen more than 84% from their 2021 peak. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dsdrxxHz