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Entourage closes €100M second fund, targeting AI, robotics and deep tech

European early-stage VC Entourage has completed fundraising for its second fund at €100 million, exceeding its initial €75 million target and capping it after being oversubscribed within two weeks. The fund plans to invest in about 25 companies at the pre-seed and seed stages in Europe and other markets, with individual checks of €1 million to €5 million, expanding its focus from software to AI, enterprise software, robotics, physical AI and deep tech. Entourage was founded by Showpad co-founder Pieterjan Bouten and has previously made early investments in Aikido Security, Conveo and Lexroom.

MIT Professor Paris Smaragdis Builds Machine Hearing Systems That Can Listen and Discern

The research group of MIT Professor Paris Smaragdis is working to give machines hearing capabilities that surpass those of humans, for use in scenarios such as speech recognition, music understanding, and environmental monitoring. Their research covers machine learning for sound source separation, intelligent devices that can enhance human auditory environments, and tools that help people understand, manipulate, analyze, and create music. Smaragdis joined MIT in 2025 and holds appointments in the Music and Theater Arts program and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Pure Storage rebrands as Everpure, launches Data Intelligence in shift toward data intelligence

Pure Storage has rebranded as Everpure and launched Data Intelligence software, designed to identify and classify structured and unstructured data across storage locations and add metadata and semantic context to make it easier for AI agents to use. The software supports SMB and NFS file shares and S3 object storage, and offers nearly 300 connectors that can integrate with other vendors' storage systems, SaaS applications such as Salesforce and ServiceNow, and mainframes, without requiring data to be migrated to a central location. The newly added File Intelligence can analyze access permissions and file age on file shares, and the newly integrated MCP lets AI agents query the data catalog, but they do not automatically gain permission to read the corresponding data.

Anything LLM Review: A Free, All-in-One Local AI Tool Combining Chatbot, Agents, and RAG

Anything LLM is a free all-in-one tool for local AI use that integrates agent capabilities, web search, and a built-in knowledge base (RAG). This t3n review examines how it performs in real-world use and also points out its limitations.

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iX Workshop: How to Apply RAG Correctly—Architecture, Retrieval and Evaluation

heise online's iX is launching a three-day interactive online workshop, "KI mit eigenen Daten richtig umsetzen: RAG, Embeddings und Retrieval-Architekturen bewerten und anwenden," which explains RAG architecture and technical fundamentals and also covers cloud and on-premise deployment. The course is taught by Gregor Biswanger, a Microsoft Azure AI MVP and GitHub Copilot collaborator; the content includes prompt optimization, integrating the OpenAI and Azure OpenAI APIs, and developing and testing your own AI agents. The workshop runs online daily from 09:00 to 17:00 and is aimed at developers who want to get started with RAG systems, suitable for both beginners and advanced learners.

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