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European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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Exclusive: ‘AI godfather' Yann LeCun in talks with LPs for new VC firm
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Dutch watchdogs urge Europe’s banks to pool buying power against US tech giants
A single European bank haggling with Amazon or Microsoft has almost no leverage. A few hundred of them haggling together might. Th…
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Big tech must deal with scam ads under Ofcom proposals
Ofcom says more than half of UK adults have encountered potentially fraudulent ads online.
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SAP averts an EU antitrust fine by opening up its support market
SAP has talked its way out of an EU antitrust fine. The European Commission said it would accept a set of commitments from the Ger…
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UN’s digital agency launches an initiative to make AI agents trustworthy
The United Nations’ digital agency has decided that AI agents are moving faster than anyone’s ability to trust them, and it wants …
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Tencent in talks to become Manus’ largest shareholder
Manus was, briefly, one of the most valuable exits in Chinese AI. Meta agreed to buy the agentic AI startup for more than $2bn lat…
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Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s number two job
Fidji Simo announced her departure from OpenAI’s senior leadership the way many people learn hard news about their own bodies, gra…
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an agent built to finish the job
OpenAI has spent two years telling people that ChatGPT can answer almost anything. With its latest release, it wants ChatGPT to fi…
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Special delivery: Italy’s postal service joins the AI infrastructure race
Italy’s postal service has spent a century and a half moving letters, parcels and pension payments around the country. Now it want…
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OpenAI is killing its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch
OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its AI-powered web browser, less than a year after launching it. The company is targeting 9…
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‘Physical AI is Europe’s last chance to be useful to the world’
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The sovereign capital, global chipmakers and serial investors behind Europe’s new unicorns
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Over $500m in fresh funding, risks of “French state influence” and a 100x valuation: What Pasqal’s SPAC filings reveal
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‘We are at a systematic disadvantage in Europe’: Pasqal CEO on listing in the US
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Not all ARR is created equal
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After Apple, India’s smartphone manufacturing boom enters new phase with Vivo JV
Vivo's joint venture could become a template for Chinese smartphone makers in India.
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'Cool in 90 seconds' - the fake portable air conditioners sweeping the internet
The ASA says adverts claiming small devices can rapidly cool rooms were too good to be true.
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OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot amid breakup chatter
OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.
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Don’t want to invest in Elon Musk? Two new ETFs explicitly exclude him
The new exchanged-traded funds exclude companies that are founded, controlled, or led by Elon Musk. That means no SpaceX or Tesla.
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OpenAI loses top executive Simo amid IPO push
The departure of Fidji Simo, OpenAI's second-in-command, creates a leadership vacuum at the $852 billion AI company just as it pre…
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OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6
OpenAI's latest family of models promise improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.
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Lyzr raises $100m as AI agent runs funding round
A US startup has secured $100 million by letting an AI agent handle investor negotiations, a development that signals a shift in t…
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OpenAI shuts Atlas browser, shifts AI features to Chrome
OpenAI is abandoning its standalone Atlas browser to embed its AI agent features directly into Google Chrome, conceding that artif…
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Musk backs $40bn Anthropic compute deal, rules out sabotage
Elon Musk has publicly pledged not to disrupt Anthropic’s $40 billion compute deal with SpaceX, a critical arrangement for the AI …