Tech & Startups
European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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EU offers quota deal to end UK-France standoff over €5bn Scaleup fund
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Common Ventures launches scheme to get working-class grads into startups
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Apple is reportedly planning new iPad Pro and MacBook Pro releases early next year
Apple is readying several new iPad Pro tablets, and a budget-friendly MacBook Pro, reports suggest.
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Bending Spoons defies SaaS slump, surges 40% on first day of trading
The company has grown rapidly by acquiring and revamping last-generation tech brands like AOL, Eventbrite, Evernote, Meetup, and V…
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After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck
The co-founders of Bending Spoons, the Italian company quietly buying beloved, ailing Internet brands, learned big lessons from th…
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WhatsApp usernames are already raising impersonation red flags
Meta says usernames improve privacy, but critics question whether its safeguards can prevent impersonation.
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Alibaba will pay 600 million dollars to settle a US probe into illegal pharmaceutical sales on its platform
Alibaba and its US digital payment processor have agreed to pay 600 million dollars to resolve a federal investigation into whethe…
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Together AI raises 800 million dollars in Series C as open-source cloud demand surges
Together AI has raised 800 million dollars in a Series C round led by Aramco Ventures, valuing the company at more than eight bill…
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SpaceX reportedly showed investors an AI device prototype, Musk says the report is false
SpaceX showed investors a prototype of a handset-like AI device before its record IPO, according to The Wall Street Journal. The p…
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Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures to start a new VC firm with Morgan Beller
Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures, the firm he co-founded with Guy Oseary 11 years ago, to start a new venture capital firm…
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Hyundai and Kia built a UV system that kills bacteria inside a car while you are sitting in it
Hyundai and Kia have unveiled an in-vehicle sanitization system that uses far-ultraviolet light to kill bacteria and viruses insid…
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Apple’s Hide My Email feature has a bug that’s been exposing real email addresses, researcher claims
Research appears to reveal a bug that could render the feature effectively useless.
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SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish
SpaceX reportedly showed investors a "handset-like" AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wants to expa…
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Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller
The actor and investor is joining forces with Morgan Beller, who was previously a GP at NFX, to invest in early-stage startups.
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Honda starts making batteries for data centres at a factory built for EVs it cancelled
Honda has begun producing batteries for energy storage systems at its Ohio factory, according to a report from Nikkei Asia. The pl…
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Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation
The AI neocloud provider, which specializes in hosting open source models, last raised at a $3.3 billion valuation in early 2025.
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Lime begins life as a public company after years of uncertainty
The nine-year-old scooter and bike-share company has said it needs the funds to help pay down around $1 billion in liabilities.
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Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content
Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and …
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A Brazilian banking trojan is targeting Santander and BBVA customers with fake PDF lures
A Brazilian banking trojan called Ousaban is going after Windows users who bank in Spain and Portugal, using fake PDFs, geofencing…
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Even Honda is pivoting to data centers
Honda wants in on the lucrative energy storage market. This week it began producing batteries destined for data centers, not drive…
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Self-driving scaleup Wayve set to test LSE’s Pisces
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Hire in 150+ countries without setting up a single entity
You have found the perfect candidate. They have the skills, the experience, and the enthusiasm. There is just one problem: they ar…
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Krafton agrees to pay Subnautica 2 bonuses after CEO who used ChatGPT to dodge them steps down
Krafton has agreed to pay bonuses to the entire staff of Unknown Worlds Entertainment, the studio behind Subnautica 2, after reach…
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Autonomous vehicle hype is back, and Humble Robotics is bringing it to freights
The autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics…