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European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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AI now wants half of America’s tech office space, and it’s all landing on a few streets
The AI boom is easy to measure in dollars raised and models shipped. It is harder to see where it physically lands. A new report f…
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Meta launches Muse Image AI tool amid privacy concerns
Meta has introduced an AI image generator that uses public Instagram photos by default, raising fresh questions in Europe over con…
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AI memory shortage shrinks global PC and phone markets
A surge in memory prices driven by AI data centres has triggered the first global PC shipment decline in two years, signalling a p…
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 to everyone after the US government signed off
OpenAI has made GPT-5.6 publicly available after receiving approval from the Trump administration. The release ends weeks in which…
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Half of Gen Z feel guilty using AI at work. Employers now rank it above a degree
Half of young workers feel guilty when they use AI to do their jobs. Yet the same skills are fast becoming something their employe…
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A single Messi moment pushed Google Search to its busiest second ever
Google Search recorded its highest usage ever this week, driven by a World Cup goal. The company says the most queries per second …
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Alipay’s owner just open-sourced an entire robot brain in a single week
The company behind China’s Alipay just gave away an AI that builds a playable video game world and keeps it running for a full hou…
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Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September
The company is taking a modular approach to designing these chips, anticipating that their needs will change as AI evolves rapidly…
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How organizations view AI-native transformation through better workflows, decisions, and organizational intelligence
Organizations seem eager to bring AI into the workplace. Many begin the journey by focusing on the tool or the model. VarOps, a sy…
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Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created
Having proven how valuable compute can be, the company finds itself at the center of a market everyone wants to be in — while simp…
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A four-year-old has seen more of the world than ChatGPT. Yann LeCun is betting $1bn on that
Yann LeCun is not a natural contrarian, but he is playing one right now. The man often called a godfather of AI built the convolut…
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Robots swept RoboCup 2026, and they’re coming for the human World Cup by 2050
While the world watched the World Cup, robots played their own version in Incheon. RoboCup 2026 ran from 30 June to 6 July in Song…
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AMD’s CTO: agentic AI doesn’t just need GPUs, it needs a lot more CPUs
On stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris, the interviewer put it bluntly to Mark Papermaster. He should have bought AMD shares six mo…
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Waymo cabin cameras trigger police call, complicating London expansion plans
A Waymo robotaxi’s decision to call the police on two teenagers has stalled its regulatory approval in California and raised diffi…
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Block reaches $45M settlement with 46 states over Cash App fraud probe
State attorneys general said they found that Block misled users by falsely advertising that Cash App provided bank-like protection…
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Anthropic launches Claude Reflect to cement user loyalty
Anthropic has introduced a new usage dashboard for its Claude chatbot, a strategic move designed to increase user retention and in…
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SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs eclipse 25 years of US tech exits
A trio of upcoming US listings led by SpaceX is set to create more value than all American venture-backed exits since 2000 combine…
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Europe’s newest defence unicorn raises $175m Series B
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Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users
Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their …
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Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist
In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them …
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Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund
Nilekani remains Fundamentum's anchor investor as the firm expands its leadership team and targets AI and fintech startups in Indi…
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Europe’s biggest new funds in H1 2026
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World Fund, IQ Capital among backers of €91m QuantumDiamonds round
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