Tech & Startups
European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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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, …
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Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates
Some of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the the tech giant's broader push to integrat…
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LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy
The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.
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Apple lawsuit threatens OpenAI hardware plans and $852bn IPO
Apple’s trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI risks delaying the startup’s first device and clouding its path to a public listing at…
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‘Scam Altman’: inside Musk and Altman’s weekend war on X
Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman in court. This weekend, he tried to win it back on X, one insult at a time. The two men…
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Uber’s robotaxi lobbying effort puts it on a collision course with Waymo
Washington D.C. has become a battleground for Uber and Waymo's competing views.
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Never-skilling: the research says juniors using AI never learn to debug
Research published this year has given a name to something employers have been circling for a while. Deskilling is what happens wh…
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Yann LeCun’s new VC fund lasted eight hours. Then it vanished
A shiny new VC firm named the AI pioneer as a partner on Friday morning. By Friday night, the fund did not exist. Yann LeCun has h…
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Anthropic recruits Monzo cofounder Tom Blomfield for AI compute team
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Nscale’s £2bn UK data centre hit by grid delays
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