Tech & Startups
European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identities
NewCore argues the next challenge in enterprise security will be managing AI agents, not people.
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Social media ban - bold and blunt, but no silver bullet
The BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman on the big changes coming down the line for young people online.
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Nvidia’s first bond sale since 2021 seeks at least $20bn
The Nvidia bond sale is on. The chipmaker is seeking to raise at least $20bn in its first corporate bond offering since 2021, Bloo…
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Tencent-backed Enflame wins approval for an $888m IPO, the last of China’s ‘four AI chip dragons’
The Enflame IPO is on. Shanghai Enflame Technology, an AI-chip startup backed by Tencent, has won listing-committee approval to ra…
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A satellite just learned to find things on its own — here’s what that means
In April, for the first time ever, an Earth observation satellite found what it was looking for, all on its own.
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AT&S pours up to €2bn into Malaysia and China to ride the AI chip boom
AT&S, the Austrian maker of printed circuit boards and chip substrates, will spend between €1.5bn and €2bn expanding capacity …
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Tesla gave European regulators misleading self-driving safety data
Tesla put self-published safety statistics in front of regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands that independent traffic-safety re…
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Inside Ineffable Intelligence: the team behind David Silver's $5.1bn superintelligence push
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Google’s Sundar Pichai chose optimism over AI at Stanford. Graduates walked out anyway
The man who runs one of the world’s largest artificial-intelligence companies stood up to address Stanford’s graduating class and,…
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India’s Razorpay files for IPO through the confidential route
Razorpay, the Bengaluru payments company, has filed draft papers for an initial public offering through India’s confidential route…
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Schneider Electric and Foxconn partner on AI data-centre infrastructure
Schneider Electric has announced a strategic collaboration with Hon Hai Technology Group, better known as Foxconn, to design and s…
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France hosts the G7 with an AI pitch built on other people’s billions
France took over the G7 this week with Emmanuel Macron pressing artificial intelligence to the front of the agenda and, with it, a…
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Amazon is looking for the next generation of climate tech startups
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The freelancer admin tax is real. Here’s how to cut it in half (and save 70% on FreshBooks while you’re at it)
The numbers are quietly damning. The average freelancer in 2026 spends between eight and 10 hours a week on administrative work th…
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US order to block foreign access to Anthropic’s top models marks a reversal
The US government has ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from its two most capable AI models, and rather than try to enfor…
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UK under-16s social media rules to reach into gaming and AI chatbots
Britain is expected to set out restrictions on how children under 16 use social media, in a package that could ban access to the m…
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SpaceX could hit $1tn a year by 2030, Musk claims after record IPO
Two days after taking SpaceX public in the largest stock-market debut on record, Elon Musk said the company could be earning rough…
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What is the UK social media ban for under-16s?
The measures will see apps including TikTok and Snapchat blocked for UK teens early in 2027.
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ByteDance is in talks to buy AI chips from China’s Iluvatar CoreX
ByteDance is in talks to buy artificial-intelligence chips from Iluvatar CoreX, a Shanghai-based GPU maker that until recently sol…
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Google is about to disable uBlock Origin and every other Manifest V2 extension in Chrome
Google is weeks away from permanently disabling every Manifest V2 browser extension in Chrome, a change that will kill uBlock Orig…
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The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg
What makes this combustible: at the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the door, a small cohort of AI i…
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The scam economy is now bigger than Denmark’s GDP, and it is accelerating
Global financial fraud cost victims an estimated $442 billion in 2025, roughly equivalent to the economic output of Denmark, accor…
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European tech has discovered some swagger
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