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In its 2024 sustainability report, Microsoft revealed that its overall Scope 1-3 emissions were up 29% from 2020. The company admitted that the majority of these emissions had risen as a result of its global data centre expansion. Microsoft has already invested $5.8bn into data centre expansion in 2023 alone according to research and analysis compa...

CoreWeave’s big May continued, as the AI cloud infrastructure startup raised a $7.5 billion debt facility from the likes of Blackstone, Magnetar and Coatue. Earlier this month, CoreWeave announced it had raised a whopping $1.1 billion in a fresh funding round led by Coatue in a deal valuing the company at $19 billion, per The Wall Street Journal. T...

Established in 1998 by Richard Reed, Adam Balon and Jon Wright, Innocent Drinks started out selling smoothies at a music festival in London. From these beginnings, it has grown into a global corporation with revenues of £426m and 20.5 per cent of the European chilled juice market in 2022. In 2013, the firm was bought by Coca-Cola and in 2018 became...

In the contemporary landscape of corporate responsibility, environmental sustainability has become a vital concern. With enterprises facing increasing regulatory pressure to record and mitigate their carbon emissions, energy usage, and overall sustainability practices, CIOs and IT departments find themselves at the forefront of this paradigm shift....

New data from a survey supplied to members of ClubCISO, the global private members forum for information security leaders, has revealed what CISOs really and currently think about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). The survey’s results highlight CISOs’ confidence in GenAI in their organisations, with around half of those surveyed (51%) bel...

Amsterdam-based Antfarm, a robotic startup, announced on Thursday, that it has secured €200k investment from the company’s co-founder and CEO Sébastien Willems. The company will use the funds to accelerate its growth and enhance robots and AI to significantly impact the global waste crisis. “Our failure to manage our waste properly (yes, also in th...

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Join us in returning to NYC on June 5th to collaborate with executive leaders in exploring comprehensive methods for auditing AI models regarding bias, performance, and ethical compliance across diverse organizations. Find out how you can attend here. Our lives will soon be filled with conversational AI agents designed to help us at every turn, ant...

Open Medical has announced the launch of its novel digital cancer management system, Pathpoint Oncology. Pathpoint Oncology is a modern, cloud-based cancer management software solution designed to streamline clinical and operational cancer workflows, including comprehensive MDT coordination, and provide a comprehensive database for cancer reporting...

On the agenda With a domestic market big enough to stay local but too small to become a global champion, how should French startups plan for their geographical expansion? Should English-first be the policy from day one? And how should founders go about hiring a team in a new market? Sifted’s France correspondent Daphné Leprince-Ringuet will be join...

Telco service providers to enterprises of all sizes around the world face the tricky problem of how best to deal with using third-party channels to market. There is an inherent tension when it comes to another company selling your own products and services, potentially in competition with an expensive and skilled in-house salesforce. The natural mi...

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. It was again not...

An interim artificial intelligence (AI) safety report has highlighted the lack of universal agreement among AI experts on a range of topics, including both the state of current AI capabilities and how these could evolve over time. The International scientific report on the safety of advanced AI was among the key commitments to emerge from the Bletc...