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European Edition Wednesday, 22 July 2026
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Tech & Startups

European technology, startups, AI and innovation.

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Somalia backs India’s objection to WhatsApp’s username switch

Somalia has thrown its weight behind India’s objection to WhatsApp’s plan to let people connect through usernames rather than phon…

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Ex-Tesla Optimus scientist launches UMA to build Europe’s humanoid robot

A former Tesla scientist who helped build the intelligence behind Elon Musk’s Optimus robot wants to do it all again from Paris, o…

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South Korea’s ‘fake news’ law is live, and it can cost you five times the damage

Post something a South Korean court later rules false, and it could cost you five times the damage. The country’s new “fake news” …

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Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom

The company just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday.

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Karina Portugal: learning to ask the right question

Ten years ago, Karina Portugal was at advertising festivals like Cannes Lions, discussing campaigns and branding. Today, she sits …

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The best AI requirements management software: 8 tools leading the shift in 2026

AI requirements management software is changing how engineering teams write, review, and validate requirements. For decades, this …

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Luffy AI raises £8.1M to put self-tuning AI inside the world’s electric motors

Luffy AI, an Abingdon startup building what it calls neuroplastic AI for the real-time control of physical machines, has raised £8…

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Meta says four states want $1.4 trillion in penalties at August youth-safety trial

Meta has told a federal court that four US states are seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over claims it engineered Facebook and In…

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Meet 2026’s award-winning women building deeptech startups

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Syntiant files for a US IPO, betting public markets want edge AI too

Syntiant, the chipmaker whose low-power processors run artificial intelligence directly on devices rather than in the cloud, has f…

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WiseTech co-founder Richard White steps down as chair, but keeps his board seat

Richard White, the billionaire co-founder of WiseTech Global, has stepped down as executive chair of the Australian logistics-soft…

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Nscale lands $900m bank credit line for global AI data-centre build-out

A two-year-old London startup has secured a massive debt facility from a dozen major banks, signalling that traditional financiers…

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Synopsys exits fab software to focus on AI design

US software giant Synopsys is abandoning the factory-floor tools that keep semiconductor plants running, a move that signals a dee…

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Google and RWE back Proxima Fusion in record €411mn round

Munich-based Proxima Fusion has raised €411mn ($468mn), the largest private fusion round Europe has ever seen and a rare vote of c…

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US cyber agency is using Anthropic’s Mythos to audit government code, sources say

A federal defender is reportedly pointing a private, offensive-grade AI model at the government’s own software, though almost noth…

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AI memory boom drives Samsung to record $58.4bn quarterly profit

Samsung Electronics has posted the largest quarterly operating profit in tech history, driven by an AI-fuelled memory shortage tha…

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Australia’s under-16 social media ban stumbles at the first age check, testers find

The world’s first national ban on social media for under-16s is faltering at the very first gate, according to the testers who hel…

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The first American autonomous ground vehicles are fighting in Ukraine

Forterra has deployed more than 100

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Gyre Energy raises $1.3m to make the world’s cold stores work less when power costs most

Across a scorching European summer, the least glamorous machines in the economy have been quietly straining. In cold stores and di…

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TechEx Europe 2026: eight events, 8,000 tech leaders, one enterprise agenda

Most large organisations now have the AI budgets approved and the transformation roadmaps drawn up. The harder question is what ac…

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TechnologyWire launches PR distribution platform engineered to secure brand visibility in AI search

MediaFuse.org, a newswire network dominant across finance, cybersecurity, blockchain, and gaming, today announced a major disrupti…

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Google backs Proxima Fusion in €411m raise

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IQM investors applaud ‘very good’ debut on public markets

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Hive raises $15m for ‘silicon brain’ that cuts hourly cost of running machines by 80%