Tech & Startups
European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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Getty Images soars after striking a deal with the kind of company it sued
For most of the generative-AI era, Getty Images has been the industry’s most determined courtroom opponent, the stock-photo giant …
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SpaceX shares slide again as the post-IPO rally keeps unwinding
SpaceX shares looked poised to fall again as US markets reopened after the long weekend, extending a slide that has already erased…
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Baden Bower tracks 12,040 AI citations across six engines to rank top publications for AI visibility
For years, brands have made media placement decisions based on a publication’s domain authority, readership numbers, and name reco…
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Spiro takes $55M from China’s NewTrails as it nears a $1bn valuation
The hard part of electrifying a motorcycle in Lagos or Nairobi was never the motorcycle, it was the charging. A rider who earns by…
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‘Owning and controlling the entire AI stack is essential’: Europe is doubling down on its own AI infrastructure
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The Bank of England backs down on its toughest stablecoin rules
When the Bank of England first sketched out how it would regulate stablecoins, the industry read the draft and recoiled. Caps on h…
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Indonesia turns to AI to deliver Prabowo’s biggest promises
The most expensive promise Prabowo Subianto made on his way to Indonesia’s presidency was lunch. His free-meals programme, budgete…
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China’s green-power target for AI data centres runs into the grid
The cleanest way to power a data centre is also the least predictable. The sun sets, the wind drops, and a server hall full of AI …
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Seedcamp raises $320M and builds out a transatlantic bridge
Seedcamp has spent nearly two decades writing the first cheque into companies before anyone else was sure they were worth one. Rev…
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Canada buys Australian Arctic radar in A$2.5bn defence-export first
Australia has been refining the same unusual piece of radar for decades, a system that bounces signals off the ionosphere to see t…
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Korea’s policy chief warns chip windfall could inflate housing
A semiconductor boom is a fine problem for a country to have, until you start asking where the money goes. That is roughly the que…
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Revolut, Wise and UiPath-backer Seedcamp raises $320m
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WeChat begins testing Xiaowei as Tencent eyes a Q3 AI rollout
WeChat is the rare app that already does almost everything. Chinese users message, pay, book, shop, and summon a taxi without ever…
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SK Hynix overtakes Samsung as Korea’s most valuable company
For a quarter of a century, the most valuable company in South Korea was Samsung Electronics, and the question was never really op…
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London’s Isometric lands $40M to certify the industrial economy with AI
Certification is the kind of work most people never think about until it holds something up. Before a regulator grants a permit, a…
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Ethan Thornton is trying to do everything all at once
Mach's approach differs sharply from some of its peers.
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Investors bemoan vibe-coded product slop
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Want to build European AI muscles? Scrap non-compete clauses
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Unlikely AI loses senior staff amid widening losses, strategic shakeup
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It's not just about nudity warns actress - the complex reality of images and online abuse
Tech companies and authorities are failing women by focusing on nudity rather than consent, says a report by Chayn.
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The American dream is ‘very dead’ for young Americans, says Mrs. Dow Jones
The American dream is “very dead” for millennials and Gen Z, according to financial influencer Haley Sacks, better known as Mrs. D…
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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash
Claude Guillemot, who founded Ubisoft with his four brothers, has died at the age of 69.
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Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets
Many of those videos were reportedly filmed on “near-perfect copies” of the Polymarket website, while featuring trades and winning…
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Nearly 60% of TikTok videos shown to new users are AI slop, study finds
Nearly six out of every ten videos TikTok serves to a brand-new account are AI-generated junk. That is the central finding of a re…