Tech & Startups
European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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Nadella says you pay for AI twice, and Microsoft helped build the trap
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella says every firm using AI is paying for it twice, once in cash, and once in the secrets it hands over to …
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AI is ending older workers’ careers early, and it is coming for the well-paid ones first
The debate about AI and jobs has focused on graduates. New research suggests it should also be looking at people in their late fif…
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The web is now mostly bots. Cloudflare is rebuilding its defences around that
For the first time, bots generate more than half of all web traffic. Cloudflare Precursor, the company’s new tool, stops checking …
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Valarian raised $50m to help governments use US cloud without losing control of it
A London startup co-founded by a former Palantir executive has raised $50m to help governments and companies use American cloud an…
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The EU has stopped sanctioning Russian hackers and started sanctioning the machine that makes them
The European Union and the United Kingdom have jointly sanctioned Russia’s cyber apparatus for the first time. The EU listed nine …
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The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI
Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Ap…
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Helsing raises $1.8bn at an $18bn valuation, and its cap table tells a story
Munich’s Helsing has raised $1.8bn at an $18bn valuation, making it Europe’s largest defence startup. The round is a bet on sovere…
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Meta’s Hyperion data centre hit $50bn, and split a Louisiana town in two
Meta’s Hyperion data centre in rural Louisiana has ballooned from $10bn to more than $50bn in under two years. In a parish of 20,0…
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200 economists just admitted they can’t see where AI is taking the economy
Two hundred economists, sixteen of them Nobel laureates, have signed a statement on AI and the economy. The punchline: the smartes…
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Monzo founder Tom Blomfield joins Anthropic’s compute team
Tom Blomfield built two of Britain’s best-known fintech companies. Now the Monzo founder is joining Anthropic, and his job is to h…
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Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe
"homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."
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Investors send General Fusion soaring in debut as first publicly traded fusion company
General Fusion started trading on the Nasdaq following a reverse merger that saw high redemptions.
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12 states sue to block Paramount’s $110B Warner Bros deal
The states allege that the deal would harm movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and audiences.
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Decoupling from China would cost the West $23.6tn
Cutting the West’s reliance on China would carry a staggering price. A new study puts the cost of decoupling from China at $23.6tn…
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Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?
What does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?
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France thinks cheap power is its AI edge. Now it must decide who plugs in
France believes its cheap, low-carbon electricity is Europe’s overlooked advantage in AI. A debate has now opened over that power.…
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Cursor is building a Claude Cowork rival, and Musk may decide its fate
The race to automate the office just gained a third runner. Cursor is building Sand, a general-purpose agent to rival Claude Cowor…
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The AI boom broke the memory market, and the bust could be brutal
The AI boom has broken the memory market’s oldest rule. Prices that should be falling are soaring instead, and the AI memory crunc…
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TV Time closure prompts Paris founder to launch Bingers app
A Paris-based entrepreneur is building a successor app to rescue 26 million users left behind after TV Time’s owner shut the platf…
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Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US
Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.
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Bosses want you to use AI. Then they credit the AI
Companies are ordering staff to lean on AI, then handing the credit to the machine. Researchers call it the AI penalty, and worker…
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Australia’s AI copyright fight now has a datacentre price tag
The fight over Australia AI copyright has a price tag: tens of billions in datacentres. The prize for AI firms is the right to tra…
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Meta’s AI detector can’t catch its own cropped fakes
The Meta AI detector promises to catch Meta’s own fakes. Crop the image, and more than half slip straight past it. The tool was me…
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SpaceX cleared to fly Starship again after booster failure in May
This will be the first Starship test flight for SpaceX as a public company, testing the market's appetite for the company's "fly, …