Tech & Startups
European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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The 50 fastest-growing European startup teams in H1 2026
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Truecaller clashes with India’s telecom regulator over anti-spam rules
The caller ID company says users are increasingly ignoring and blocking calls from India's dedicated business number series.
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Judge clears Musk's $1.5M SEC settlement over Twitter stake delay
A US judge has approved Elon Musk's $1.5 million penalty for late Twitter stock disclosures, a settlement that exposes deep concer…
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Lovable in talks for $300m raise at $13.2B valuation
A Swedish AI startup less than three years old is on track to double its valuation to $13.2 billion, highlighting Europe's capacit…
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Feds demand autonomous vehicle companies stop interfering with first responders
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said emergency scenes are not "edge cases."
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Google’s deepfake detector system used to debunk McConnell hoax pic
Earlier this week, a picture seemed to show Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extr…
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With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing
Like its U.S. counterpart, the European Chips Act aims to foster the semiconductor industry — in part thanks to state subsidies. O…
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Autonomous drone delivery startup Manna plots major US expansion
Manna is launching a U.S. operations and manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will eventually employ 1,000 people.
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SpaceXAI undercuts AI rivals on price with Grok 4.5
SpaceXAI has released its Grok 4.5 model at a fraction of rival prices, intensifying a cost war that could accelerate AI adoption …
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Solo-built 'slow-social' app Roost nears 300k users despite AI art clash
The unfunded messaging app Roost has surged to nearly 300,000 users by forcing delayed communication, highlighting a growing consu…
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$320m raise values robotics AI startup General Intuition at $2.3bn
General Intuition has raised $320 million to build a foundational AI model for robotics that drastically reduces the data required…
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Elon Musk says X will send DMs when posts you’ve engaged with are corrected
X plans to send users direct messages when posts they’ve liked, replied to, or reposted receive Community Notes, an update aimed a…
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Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise.
Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the comp…
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OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT with full-duplex voice models
OpenAI is replacing ChatGPT's voice system with full-duplex models that listen and speak simultaneously, signalling a shift toward…
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France’s ZML wants to break Nvidia lock-in with free cross-chip AI software
A Paris startup wants to loosen Nvidia’s grip on AI, not with a new chip, but with software. ZML has released a free tool that run…
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Crypto VC firm Paradigm raises $1.2B to invest in ‘technical frontier’ startups
Paradigm, the VC firm founded in 2018 to back crypto startups, raised a $1.2 billion Fund III.
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One symlink trick breaks 6 top AI coding agents, from Amazon
Security firm Wiz found one old Unix trick that breaks six popular AI coding assistants, from Amazon Q to Cursor. A booby-trapped …
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Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents
The round, led by Radical Ventures, values the two-year old startup at $1 billion.
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Another massive data breach exposed millions of driver’s license numbers
The cyberattack targeting a U.S. insurance giant is the largest known breach of driver's license numbers so far in 2026.
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Only 6% of UK managers think Gen Z is work-ready. 45% of Gen Z disagree
Young workers and their bosses do not see the same person. Almost half of 18 to 24-year-olds, 45 per cent, believe they entered wo…
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Your customers would rather use ChatGPT than your chatbot, Gartner finds
Businesses spent big on AI to answer their customers. The customers had other ideas. People are approximately three times more lik…
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NATO taps Accenture and Leonardo to build a €200M secure cloud backbone
NATO wants a cloud it can trust under fire. Its technology agency has signed a contract worth about €200 million with Accenture an…
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These AI startups are growing revenue at faster and faster rates
There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.
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Cloudflare reverses crawler blockade in OpenAI search pilot
Cloudflare is testing a deal to feed real-time web data to OpenAI despite arming publishers against AI bots, a strategic U-turn th…