Tech & Startups
European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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Chevy built an All-American EV truck. Why is nobody buying it?
The Chevy Silverado EV is a solid first draft of an EV pickup truck. Here's what could make it better.
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Parents warned not to publicly share children’s images amid AI abuse risks
The NCA says there is a growing threat of children's images being used to create child abuse material.
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The chip industry has a warning for Trump: hands off the memory market
The memory shortage has become a political problem in Washington. Now the chip industry has a message for the Trump administration…
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Europe is coming for loot boxes, and the games industry is bracing
The video-game industry is bracing for a wave of European rules. They could limit what children play, and cost the sector billions…
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Investors sue Oracle, say it hid how shaky the OpenAI deal was
The strain inside the AI boom’s biggest infrastructure bet has reached a courtroom. Oracle’s own investors are suing, saying the c…
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Weave’s $7,999 Isaac 1 bets home robots don’t need legs or fingers
The robot butler has been five years away for about twenty years. Weave Robotics thinks the trick is to aim lower. Its new home ro…
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SAP freezes hiring to fund AI push amid share price slide
Europe’s largest software company is diverting resources away from general recruitment and travel toward artificial intelligence, …
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The other Dyson empire, measured in acres
Inside a glasshouse the size of roughly 20 football pitches, on the flat black soil of Lincolnshire, strawberry plants ride a Ferr…
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The AI memory squeeze is about to hit Europe’s shopping baskets
The AI memory squeeze has been an industry story for months. Now it is heading for the till. Currys, Britain’s biggest consumer el…
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Starling Bank to cut 130 jobs amid AI push
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The emails that broke Anthropic and the Pentagon apart
For months, the fight between Anthropic and the Pentagon looked like a row over access to Claude. Court documents released this we…
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Zoom buys Common Room to push past the video call into AI sales
Zoom made its name on the video call. Now it wants to own everything that happens before the call too. The company is buying Commo…
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US tech bank Erebor seeks $8bn valuation as deposits quadruple
Palmer Luckey’s US bank Erebor is pursuing an $8bn valuation after quadrupling deposits in three months, a rapid rise that undersc…
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IQM becomes the first European quantum company to list on a major US exchange
Europe just put its first quantum computing company on a major American stock exchange. And it did so without leaving home. IQM, a…
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Argentina’s AI-run companies plan still can’t do without humans
Argentina’s government wants to let a company trade with no person in charge of it, and it has sent Congress a bill to make that l…
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GoDaddy warns India’s fake-site crackdown could damage the internet
The world’s biggest seller of website addresses says a court order in India could make the internet less safe. GoDaddy is fighting…
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Amazon says it finally has enough satellites to switch on its Starlink rival
Amazon has finally reached the starting line in the satellite-internet race. It says it now has enough spacecraft in orbit to swit…
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Spotify pushes back on Kalshi and Polymarket after a song’s chart run looked rigged
Spotify has removed roughly 500,000 streams from Malcolm Todd’s song “Earrings” after the track’s sudden rise to the top of its US…
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Researchers say an AI agent just ran a ransomware attack from start to finish, with no human at the keyboard
Ransomware has always needed a skilled human somewhere in the loop. Security firm Sysdig says that just changed. It has documented…
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ElevenLabs in talks for tender offer at $22bn valuation, doubling February mark
The voice AI startup is reportedly weighing a staff share sale that would value it at nearly double its February funding round, ac…
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Exclusive: ETCI-backed VC firms split over plan to limit non-European investments
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Crusoe reportedly in talks to raise $3 billion, tripling its valuation
Crusoe is reportedly in talks to raise about $3 billion in a new funding round that could triple its valuation to roughly $30 bill…
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A rocket motor blew up at Anduril’s Mississippi test site. The defence darling says it’s routine
Anduril has become the poster child for a faster, software-speed kind of defence contractor. Last Friday, one of its rocket motors…
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