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Atlassian is cutting 1,600 jobs and replacing its CTO


In October 2025, Atlassian co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes appeared on the 20VC podcast and said something that now reads rather differently. Technology creation, he argued, is ‘not output-bound.’ Atlassian would employ more engineers in five years, not fewer. They would just be more efficient. On 11 March 2026, Mike Cannon-Brookes sent a memo to […]



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TechEx North America 2026 comes to San Jose for your annual enterprise technology intelligence briefing


TechEx North America will take place on May 18–19, 2026, at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, bringing together seven co-located enterprise technology events under one roof to tackle the real questions enterprise leaders are asking right now. This leading enterprise technology showcase will help CIOs, CTOs, IT Directors, enterprise architects, and IT leaders understand […]



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Bumble’s AI assistant Bee will learn what you want from a relationship


The dating app unveiled Bee at its Q4 earnings alongside a broader ‘Bumble 2.0’ overhaul, as the company attempts to reverse years of declining user numbers by replacing gamified swiping with AI-driven compatibility. There is a version of the future, Bumble’s version, at least, where you never swipe on a dating app again. Instead, you […]



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Tropic raises $105M to scale gene-edited bananas


The Norwich-based agbiotech company launched the first new commercial banana varieties in more than 75 years in 2025. Now it has to build enough supply to meet demand. The world’s favourite fruit is in serious trouble. Panama Disease Tropical Race 4, a fungal pathogen that travels in soil and water and leaves no cure in […]



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Tower raises €5.5m to empower data engineers in the AI era


The Berlin startup, founded by two ex-Snowflake engineers, wants to be the platform where AI-generated data pipelines go to actually work. The hard part of building with AI is no longer getting the code. It is getting the code to run. That gap,  between what an AI coding assistant can produce in minutes and what […]



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