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Robotics data startup Microagi closed a $55 million seed funding round, the largest ever in Germany, the company said Thursday. Microagi made headlines in May when it rolled out a service in New York offering free apartment cleanings, so long as customers let the company record everything. It has licensed ...

Free alpha alert: Betting on who’s going to win World Cup games isn’t the only way to bet on the tournament. Stock-market volatility in country-specific indexes tends to spike after their national teams play, according to a new analysis from data-modeling firm Polybridge. A country’s stock market is about 15% ...

Kalshi continues its push onto Wall Street. The prediction market platform on Thursday launched 13 contracts that let users bet on the outcome of clinical drug trials, distilling the biggest milestones for biotech stocks into a simple yes or no. In recent days, it has also expanded its contracts that ...

Liz’s view Ted Pick is dropping breadcrumbs. Morgan Stanley’s CEO plopped a telling line into Wednesday’s earnings call: “We are, as a discipline, constantly evaluating potential inorganic opportunities to expand in attractive geographies, bolt on new capabilities, add new client relationships.” Don’t be thrown off by the CEO-speak. Pick’s comments ...

The Scoop DR Congo’s finance minister ordered the tax authority to remove seals placed on Glencore’s Kamoto Copper Company offices, as talks continue over a multibillion-dollar tax dispute, a government spokesman told Semafor. The move comes days after President Félix Tshisekedi warned that heavy-handed measures by tax officials threatened to ...

🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet in the habitable zone of its star for the first time in history, signalling a major breakthrough ...

Police departments around the country have used Flock cameras at least hundreds of times to search for specific people, not cars, using searches such as “heavy-set male with a black and white hat,” “person on skateboard,” and “person wearing orange vest and construction hat,” according to data reviewed by 404 ...

A rift between Fedorov and Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi was apparently at the heart of Zelensky’s decision. ...

The London mayor is to be joined by broadcaster June Sarpong and former union chief Christina McAnea in the Lords. ...

Argentina could be disciplined by Fifa for the celebrations after the World Cup win over England. ...