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European Edition Wednesday, 16 September 2026
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Tech & Startups

Tech & Startups

European technology, startups, AI and innovation.

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Microsoft staff are burning a median $300 a month on AI, according to their own spreadsheet

An internal spreadsheet where Microsoft employees swap pay details now carries a column for monthly AI spend, with a median of about $300 over 28 days across roughly 350

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Volvo’s electric cars can now warn you about a deer around a blind corner

Volvo is adding alerts for large animals, vulnerable road users, roadworks and accidents ahead to its EX60, EX90 and ES90 electric

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OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach

The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.

Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9

Hyundai has gained more US market share this decade than any carmaker

Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI

Nitter is offline after seven years, shut down by cease-and-desist letters

Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model

Gatik has raised $200m to put more driverless box trucks on US roads

Meta is holding back $5.3bn unless TikTok and YouTube match its teen rules

Speed is no longer a selling point for AI agents, caution is

Attacks on US firms have moved from stealing data to stopping production

Meta agrees to pay up to $16.68bn to settle social media case

Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos

87% of German companies were attacked last year, and Russia has caught up with China

The stealth model that beat DeepSeek belongs to Zhipu

EU officials were targeted on WhatsApp, an internal document shows

A law from 1634 is why Europeans cannot sue Big Tech together

Amazon moved some Canadian sourcing from the US to China to avoid tariffs

The SEC has subpoenaed four banks over Situational Awareness

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