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Wonderful Raises $550 Million Series C to Scale the AI Operating System for the Enterprise, Czech United Founders among first backers

Funding will accelerate product development and global deployment of the Wonderful AI OS, as enterprises move from isolated AI use cases to organization-wide transformation.

UK EV charging payments startup Rightcharge raises £500K to scale fleet EV charging payments across Europe, among investors Czech Soulmates Ventures or Purple Ventures

Rightcharge has secured growth funding to expand across Europe and develop its platform, which simplifies home and public EV charging payments for fleet operators.

Prague AI Initiative prg.ai Appoints New Director Luděk Šafář

Prague-based AI initiative prg.ai is getting a new leader. Luděk Šafář, a technology executive with more than 25 years of experience across global companies including Dell Technologies, Microsoft, Novell, SUSE and SAS, will become the organisation’s new director in October.

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Kristýna Truksová: “The office has to earn the commute”

WorkLounge’s chief of strategy explains why the future workplace needs to adapt to people, businesses and changing ways of working.

How AI agents can be used to steal your data

Ukrainian startup Alerts Bar sees an uptick in cybercrime as the agentic revolution takes hold.

How one Czech startup is building a more ethical work culture

FaceUp’s ethics and compliance platform is already running in almost 4,000 schools and companies.

Europe Has a Venture Capital Problem. And It Is Becoming a Competitiveness Problem

The European startup ecosystem has become good at creating innovative companies. The problem is what happens when those companies need serious money to scale. New ECB analysis shows that Europe’s venture capital market remains far smaller than the US, particularly at later stages — raising questions about where Europe’s next generation of global technology companies will be financed, owned and ultimately listed.

The New Infrastructure Behind Physical AI: Meet the Engineers Building Synthetic Data for Mission-Critical Machines

As AI moves from screens into cars, robots, drones, factories and defence systems, the data problem is changing. The next generation of physical AI may depend less on collecting more data, and more on generating precisely the data that does not yet exist. At DiffuseDrive, Daniel Bin Schmid, Domonkos Haffner and Gabor Vecsei are working on different parts of that problem, from controllable generative models to production-grade, air-gapped AI infrastructure.

Microsoft’s Startup Reset: Why Satya Nadella Is Betting on a 33-Year-Old to Save Copilot

For years, Microsoft was viewed as one of the biggest winners of the AI revolution. Its multi-billion-dollar investment in OpenAI gave the company an early lead, while Copilot promised to bring generative AI to hundreds of millions of enterprise users.

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