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European Edition Tuesday, 21 July 2026
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European technology, startups, AI and innovation.

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Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

Apple has filed a federal lawsuit accusing OpenAI of systematically stealing hardware trade secrets, a move that shatters the comp…

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Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘interim’

Schneider, who formerly served as the CEO of Automattic and is a partner at True Ventures, says he is "all in" on the unconvention…

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Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAi's senior leadership, including a long-time former employee.

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Volkswagen will halve its model range, but stays silent on the 100,000 job cuts

Volkswagen has announced plans to gut its sprawling product range as it fights the worst crisis in its history. The carmaker will …

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New ‘Ex-Elon’ ETFs let investors track the market while skipping Musk’s companies

An investment firm is offering a way to invest in the broad market without owning Elon Musk’s companies. New York-based Subversive…

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The first flights of the US air-taxi program carried organs, not passengers

Beta Technologies has completed the first flights in the US government’s electric air-taxi pilot programme. The Amazon-backed comp…

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Europe torched its own rulebook to please business, and business is still unhappy

Twenty months into the EU’s campaign to slash red tape, many of the businesses that demanded it are unimpressed. Firms told Politi…

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Filing: College app Fizz accuses VC of sharing confidential startup information with rival Sidechat

Fizz has expanded its lawsuit against rival Sidechat, alleging that a Maveron VC shared its confidential information obtained duri…

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Monitoring systemic drift may guide the next phase of organizational resilience

Artificial intelligence seems to be creating increasingly interconnected enterprise ecosystems, expanding the complexity of how or…

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Record $26.5bn US IPO for SK Hynix as Washington eyes Korean fabs

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix has raised $26.5 billion in the largest foreign IPO in US history, a deal that highlights the stra…

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HyperTexting app offers open web alternative to algorithmic feeds

A new iOS app, HyperTexting, repackages RSS technology into a familiar social feed, offering a decentralized alternative to algori…

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China is catching up to Elon Musk’s reusable rockets

China's state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.

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What makes the best stablecoin payment solution?

Key Takeaways Stablecoin payments help businesses combine blockchain settlement speed with more predictable value. The best stable…

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Disney+ is considering a free streaming tier, report says

The launch of free content would allow Disney+ to better compete with free services like YouTube and Tubi, which are capturing a g…

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The Eval Stack: Proving the agents are right instead of claiming It

Most AI research tools point a language model at the web and trust the output. Saarth Shah built Sixtyfour around the opposite ins…

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Dumb Co dared me to trade my iPhone for a hacked flip phone

Dumb Co sells flip phones that sync to your smartphone, bridging the infinite connectivity of the iPhone and the unrealistic limit…

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AI coding surge makes design the new startup moat

As AI slashes the cost of building software, early-stage startups are finding that hiring a founding designer is now critical to b…

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US senator targets AI data centres in EU-style bill

Senator Ed Markey has unveiled a federal AI regulation package that would impose strict pre-construction checks on data centres, e…

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Oratomic raises $300M to build a viable quantum computer that needs only 20K qubits

The new startup raised $300 million co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures.

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Home robots already walk. 1X’s new hands try to solve the part that actually matters

Humanoid robots learned to walk years ago. The thing still tripping them up is the hand. 1X has given its NEO home robot new hands…

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Netflix could be planning ‘always-on’ live TV channels

Amid signs of slowing engagement, Netflix is reportedly considering launching "always-on" live channels, giving subscribers someth…

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Britain is spending £2bn to train its army inside an AI war simulation

Britain is spending £2bn to train its army inside a simulation. It has handed the job to an American defence giant, with a German …

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Malaysia’s PM is sending an autonomous AI double out to serve citizens, payment links and all

Malaysia’s prime minister is trying something new: sending an autonomous copy of himself out to serve the public. Anwar Ibrahim is…

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Anthropic built a tool that reads Claude’s unspoken thoughts. Then it caught the model scheming

Anthropic has built something close to a mind-reading tool for its own AI. What it found sits somewhere between a breakthrough and…