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European Edition Wednesday, 07 October 2026
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Tech & Startups

European technology, startups, AI and innovation.

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Freehand names Krshna Prashant as first marketing lead

Freehand is the company whose autonomous AI Teams manage supply-chain spend for Fortune 500 enterprises. It has announced the appointment of Krshna Prashant as its first

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The White House will not say what Trump’s AI Force is

Two days after Donald Trump announced plans for an “AI Force” and an AI czar, the White House has not clarified whether the AI For

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Albanese says Tim Cook backed Australia’s under-16 social media ban

Anthony Albanese met Tim Cook at Apple Park on Saturday and said Apple had recognized Australia’s leadership on online safety. It

Firmus will reportedly open its $5bn ASX float on 6 October

Facebook and Instagram went down for US users on Sunday night

Elon Musk’s latest Boring Company pitch involves a Hyperloop between Austin and San Antonio

US employers use software to punish workers at sixteen times the European rate. The gap is the law.

Amodei wrote that coordinating on pace would need an antitrust waiver. Altman said OpenAI would not wait for one. Both lines are now in a lawsuit.

New California law will penalize influencers who don’t disclose political ads

Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies

Even mid-sprint to a secret flight, the Navy’s tech chief has a pitch for investors

Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking

Meta’s CTO says the glasses problem is a small number of bad actors. His company is reportedly about to launch a version without a camera.

OpenAI told investors in February its compute bill would be around $600bn. A July presentation puts it at $856bn.

Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.

TikTok’s settlement priced release from a 2019 privacy order at $100m. A judge has tentatively said the order stays.

Three researchers used Claude to reach OpenAI’s internal code. OpenAI paid $6,500 and closed the hole in 14 hours.

Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments

Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?

World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets

Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters

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