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European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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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…
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EU threatens Meta with fines over addictive features on Facebook and Instagram
The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications…
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Florida ransomware negotiator convicted for helping ransomware gang extort US companies
A third ransomware negotiator has been jailed for helping a notorious ransomware group to extort American victim companies into pa…
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Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a…
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Big Tech’s AI debt just hit $350bn, and Europe is about to feel it
Big Tech built its reputation on mountains of cash. It is building its AI empire on debt, and the bill is starting to land in Euro…
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MiniMax’s CEO won’t take a salary until AGI. His company just raised $2bn after an 80% crash
The letter reads like a founder’s article of faith. The share sale underneath it tells a harder story. The founder of MiniMax has …
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A 23-year-old’s AI startup wants a $20bn valuation, months after a breach cost it Meta
A three-year-old startup run by a 23-year-old is in talks to double its worth to $20bn. The numbers are dazzling. Read the footnot…
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China just caught a rocket in a net, and SpaceX should be watching
SpaceX lands its rockets on legs. Blue Origin uses a platform. China just caught one in a giant net. China has recovered the first…
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Anthropic is now worth $1.2 trillion on paper. Almost nobody can buy in
Anthropic is the hottest stock in private tech. It is also one of the hardest to buy, and that is exactly why the price keeps clim…
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From powerboat records to a $1bn war chest: meet Europe’s newest defence unicorn
First the Royal Navy shoved a robot boat out of a transport plane at 1,300 feet. Then its maker became Europe’s newest defence uni…
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UK shops are about to get a four-second line to the police, powered by your face
Walk into a shop with the wrong face on file, and the police could know within four seconds. That is the pitch, and the problem. A…
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The UK just declared Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Oracle ‘critical’ to its financial system
Britain’s banks run on four American clouds. The Treasury reckons two-thirds of UK firms lean on the same handful. Now the regulat…
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The Singapore side door: OpenAI and Google are selling frontier AI to blacklisted Chinese giants
Three Chinese tech giants are on a US military blacklist. All three can still buy America’s best AI, as long as they buy it in the…
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EU threatens Meta with 6% turnover fine over addictive design
The European Commission has warned Meta it faces massive fines unless it overhauls the engagement-driven design of Facebook and In…
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EU tells Meta to dismantle Facebook and Instagram’s ‘addictive’ design or face a fine
Brussels has decided that infinite scroll is not a feature but a hazard. On Friday, the European Commission told Meta to dismantle…
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How tourist investors fell out of love with European tech's once-hottest sector
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The US wants to delete the steering wheel. The EU wants a camera on your face
This week, two of the world’s biggest car regulators looked at the same question and reached opposite answers. The question is sim…
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Nanya bets $6bn on AI memory to escape commodity DRAM trap
Taiwan’s Nanya Technology is planning a record $6bn capital expenditure in 2027 to double its production of AI server memory, a hi…
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Claude can now tell you that you use Claude too much
Anthropic has built a feature that does something odd for a tech company. It counts how much you lean on its product, then gently …
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A €91M bet on the diamond microscope that could be Europe’s next ASML
Europe uses about a fifth of the world’s chips, but makes only a tenth of them. A three-year-old Munich startup thinks it can help…
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SoftBank and PayPay said to be in talks to invest in Seven & i
Japan’s biggest payments app and its most famous convenience-store chain may be about to get closer. SoftBank and its payments arm…
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Humanoid robots just removed organs from live animals for the first time
Two robots that look roughly like people just reached inside a live animal and removed an organ. No film studio staged the scene. …
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