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European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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PlayStation will stop releasing games on discs in 2028
The firm said future games would still be sold in shops, but they would come with a digital code only.
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Aikido buys Israel’s Root to patch open source with AI
A Belgian cybersecurity unicorn has bought an Israeli startup with an unusual trick. Its AI agents fix an open-source flaw without…
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Europe’s Crypto Reset Is Underway as Venga Joins the First Wave of MiCA-Approved Firms
Europe’s crypto industry has entered a new regulatory era. After years of operating under a patchwork of national registration reg…
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Base44 launches Base1, its own AI model for vibe coding
Base44 spent its first year building apps on other companies’ AI models. Now it has built its own. It is betting that owning the m…
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OpenAI’s first hardware is a macro pad for Codex coders
OpenAI’s first piece of hardware is not the mysterious gadget everyone is waiting for. It is a small keyboard for people who talk …
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Klarna wins $1.97bn antitrust lawsuit against Google
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NIH unveils the world’s largest genomics-and-health database
The US government has just handed scientists the largest map of human health ever assembled. It pairs more than half a million gen…
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AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise at a $5bn valuation
Higgsfield AI did not exist before March 2025. Fifteen months on, the video startup is in talks to raise money at a $5bn valuation…
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“BioShocking” tricks AI browsers into leaking your passwords
Security researchers convinced six AI browsers they were playing a game. The browsers then handed over their users’ passwords and …
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DeepSeek breaks China’s AI price war with peak-hour surge pricing
DeepSeek lit China’s AI price war by making tokens absurdly cheap. Now it is doing something no rival has dared: charging more whe…
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Healthcare’s AI Revolution Has Forgotten the Human Being
Artificial intelligence has arrived in healthcare with extraordinary promise. Every week brings another announcement of an AI assi…
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Cross-border payroll runs on $200B and zero shared infrastructure
Every year, more than $200 billion in employer-originated wages crosses international borders. The money moves through a patchwork…
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An AI agent was named after this 57-year-old Belgian credit analyst. Is he philosophical about it?
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Alan Chang is hiring a ‘performance manager’. Should other CEOs follow his lead?
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UN’s first global AI science panel warns the window to govern the technology is closing
Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than governments can regulate it, and the world’s first global scientific body on the …
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SumUp launches consumer account paying users to shop small
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EU tech chief and Tim Cook hold ‘constructive’ talks as Siri AI stays blocked in Europe
Apple chief executive Tim Cook and the European Union’s technology chief spoke by video call on Monday, and both sides came away d…
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OCBC to lift annual tech spending above $771mn as new CEO doubles down on AI
CBC plans to raise its annual technology spending to more than $771mn, according to Bloomberg, as Singapore’s second-largest lende…
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The headcount paradox: How AI is forcing HR and finance to think as one
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Bending Spoons prices IPO above range to raise $1.68bn ahead of Nasdaq debut
Bending Spoons, the Milan software group that owns Vimeo, WeTransfer and Evernote, has priced its US initial public offering above…
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Visa, Mastercard and 140 firms launch Open USD, a stablecoin built to undercut Circle
Aconsortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, among them Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched a new …
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Uber-backed Lime prices its IPO at $25 a share, raising about $174m
Lime has priced its US initial public offering at $25 a share, according to Bloomberg News. That is the midpoint of the $24 to $26…
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South Korea accuses Google of abusing Android app-store power over ‘Project Hug’
South Korea’s competition regulator has accused Google of abusing its dominant position in the Android app market, and signalled i…
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AI hardware demand keeps Asia’s factories humming as the Iran war bites
Asia’s factories grew again in June, and the global scramble for AI hardware is doing much of the lifting, according to survey dat…