Tech & Startups
European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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TikTok and YouTube cut 4.7 million under-16 accounts in Indonesia
The number arrives with the bluntness of a government tally. TikTok and YouTube have deactivated roughly 4.7 million accounts belo…
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SpaceX wants to sell Starlink phone service directly to US consumers
Every satellite company eventually looks down at the much larger market on the ground, and SpaceX appears ready to make the move. …
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Airwallex valued at $11bn as investors back AI payments push
Cross-border payments firm Airwallex has secured $320 million at an $11 billion valuation, signalling strong investor appetite for…
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Italy opens an antitrust probe into Microsoft 365’s AI price rise
The regulator says customers were moved to a pricier Copilot-bundled plan unless they actively opted out, with too little informat…
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Australia’s teen social media ban works on paper, less so in practice
A law is only as strong as the door it actually closes, and Australia’s ban on social media for under-16s appears to have left a w…
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The seed rounds you may have missed in H1
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The voice-controlled drones startup backed by Lakestar and Seedcamp
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The French & Benelux startups making €100m+ in revenue
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The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns
penAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of to the broader public. The r…
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YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double the playback speed
YouTube Shorts is getting a makeover.
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The hidden cost of complacency and Jay Roland’s mission against corporate America’s technical debt crisis
Corporate America is hemorrhaging money through inefficient IT business processes, and Jay Roland, founder of Varex Solutions, bel…
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Building trust in AI health intelligence: why privacy, transparency, and human oversight matter
Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly visible part of healthcare. From administrative workflows and clinical decisio…
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Coinspaid Dev emerges as a dedicated blockchain infrastructure engineering brand
Coinspaid Dev (stylized as {coinspaid.dev}), the engineering team behind the infrastructure powering Coinspaid Solutions, has sepa…
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OpenAI says nearly all its employees have switched from chatbots to Codex agents, but every number comes from OpenAI itself
Nearly 98 percent of OpenAI’s employees now use Codex, the company’s AI coding agent, up from roughly 40 percent in August 2025, a…
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Hackers stole three million dollars from Polymarket users through a compromised third-party vendor
Polymarket confirmed on Thursday that hackers stole funds from users after a third-party vendor was compromised, allowing maliciou…
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Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents
Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor s…
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Polymarket refunds users after $3m crypto hack
A third-party breach at prediction market Polymarket allowed hackers to steal roughly $3 million in cryptocurrency, compounding re…
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Notion is shutting down its email client because AI agents already do the job
Notion is shutting down Notion Mail on September 22, less than 18 months after making the email product available to users. The co…
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Xbox follows Apple with price increases
The price increase comes amid rising components costs.
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Trump DOT proposes dropping the brake pedal requirement for fully autonomous vehicles
The Trump administration’s Department of Transportation proposed on Wednesday removing the federal requirement for brake pedals in…
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Notion shuts Mail app to focus entirely on AI agents
Notion is retiring its email inbox just months after launch because users are delegating the task to AI, signaling a broader marke…
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Claude is winning over paying consumers in a market ChatGPT has owned, credit card data shows
Consumers who pay for AI chatbots are increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude over competitors, according to new data from credit…
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Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over efforts to keep her quiet
For more than a year, the legal action in the Sarah Wynn-Williams affair ran one way: Meta against its former executive. That has …
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a16z-backed Base Power is offering cheaper electricity to the power grid that needs it most
Base Power is skipping the PJM's troubled interconnection queue by placing its batteries at people's homes, offering backup servic…