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European Edition Thursday, 17 September 2026
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Tech & Startups

European technology, startups, AI and innovation.

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Europe’s carmakers are pivoting to defence as EV demand slows and military budgets soar

Four European automakers announced military vehicle partnerships in the past week. Ineos is bidding for a UK Ministry of Defence contract. Daimler Truck launched a dedica

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PsiQuantum breaks ground in Australia on what it says will be the world’s first utility-scale quantum computer

PsiQuantum has broken ground on a facility in Moreton Bay, Queensland, where it plans to build and deploy what it calls the world’

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France breaks EDF’s grip on hydropower with law to auction 6 GW a year

France’s Parliament adopted a bill on Tuesday that dismantles the monopoly Électricité de France has held over the country’s hydro

Anthropic and Google DeepMind called for a US-led AI coalition at the G7, and Canada said yes

Allbirds sells its shoes, renames itself Smartbird, and says it is now an AI infrastructure company

Meloni says banning kids from social media is not a solution on its own

Britain lobbied Trump for an exemption from the Anthropic AI ban. The answer was no.

Mastodon adds email newsletters so people who don’t want an account can still follow creators on the open social web

Gary Marcus warns OpenAI’s IPO could drag Nvidia, Oracle, and CoreWeave down with it

A 21-year-old Stanford grad just raised $11.6M to build a wearable hormone monitor that doesn’t need blood

SpaceX’s surging stock just turned its valuation into an acquisition weapon

World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names

Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web

A million Dutch adults get news solely from social media. Only 12% trust what they see.

Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows

AI will mean more humans needed for work, not replace us - Jeff Bezos

Arcade raised $60M to fix the real wall blocking enterprise AI agents: what they’re allowed to do

Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker

The bottleneck in geothermal moved from the drill to the turbine. This SpaceX alum raised $22M to fix it

Henrique Schmaiske and the human work behind Meteor 3.0

a16z is betting $38M that you want an AI ‘teammate’, not another agent

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