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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