Tech & Startups
European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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Kremlin demands an explanation from Apple after VK apps vanish from the App Store
On Thursday, a clutch of apps belonging to the Russian tech group VK disappeared from Apple’s App Store, and by the afternoon the …
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Brussels moves to put AWS and Azure under its toughest tech rules
The European Commission told Amazon and Microsoft that it takes the preliminary view that their cloud arms, Amazon Web Services an…
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Anthropic hires Orange’s AI chief as its European build-out accelerates
Steve Jarrett, Orange’s chief AI officer since 2019, will join the Claude maker in Paris in late August to adapt its products for …
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A Michigan township killed a $2.4 billion Chinese battery plant, and now the company might bankrupt it
Less than three years ago, residents of Green Charter Township, a rural community of roughly 3,000 people in central Michigan, pac…
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The EU signs up to Pax Silica, the US-led chip pact France called colonisation
Brussels is joining a Washington-led effort to secure AI chip supply chains, a fortnight after unveiling a tech-sovereignty agenda…
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China wants its green power wired straight into the data centre
In the desert outside Zhongwei, in the northwestern region of Ningxia, four dedicated power lines now run from a field of solar pa…
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Amazon ups India bet with fresh $13B AI infrastructure investment
Amazon’s latest India investment comes as global tech companies race to expand AI infrastructure in the country.
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Russia cracked an activist’s iPhone with Cellebrite, months after the firm said it left
A Citizen Lab report puts forensic evidence and a Russian court document behind a familiar problem: surveillance tools do not come…
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Health unicorn Alan raises €480m Series G round led by Prosus
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N26 hits profitability following leadership shakeup
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Canadian workers have few defences against workplace surveillance
TD’s plan to monitor some staff has exposed a legal gap: in much of Canada, an employer can watch you work and owes you little mor…
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Oracle cuts about 500 jobs in Romania as AI restructuring rolls on
On the morning of June 25, Oracle began telling roughly 500 of its Romanian employees that their jobs were gone, part of the compa…
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IBM says it has built the first sub-1nm chip technology
IBM announced that it has built the world’s first sub-1nm chip technology, a transistor architecture at what it calls the 0.7nm, o…
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South Korean chip shares rally after Micron’s upbeat earnings
South Korean chip stocks rallied on Thursday after Micron Technology reported a record quarter and an upbeat outlook, reviving opt…
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Berlin’s Almetra raises €16.3M to turn factory video into live data
The Berlin startup points cameras at production lines, converts the footage into live data, and says it has lifted output at Bosch…
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IBM hails new 'block of flats' design breakthrough for ultra tiny chips
IBM says it has created the world's first known chip tech below 1 nanometre - but it will be some time before it's ready for produ…
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Cellebrite said it cut off Russia, but Russia used is tools anyway
Security researchers found evidence that Russian authorities hacked the iPhone of a political opponent using a phone-unlocking dev…
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Amazon to invest an extra $13bn in Indian cloud and AI by 2030
Amazon will invest an additional $13bn in India by 2030, the company said on June 25, lifting its planned spending in the country …
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Two more Gemini researchers are leaving Google for Anthropic
Two leading artificial intelligence researchers at Google are planning to leave for Anthropic, according to a Bloomberg report on …
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Solo-maxxing: How tech taught Gen Z to monetise being alone
We can no longer pretend that the bridge between generations is invisible, because it stands before us, growing wider every day, h…
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Tombot raises $7m to bring its robotic dog Jennie to market
Tombot, a Los Angeles-area company that makes a robotic dog for people who cannot keep a real one, has closed a $7m Series A3 fina…
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H.B. Fuller nears a $628 million deal for UK wound-care maker AMS, over its own investor’s objections
The US adhesives group has agreed a 285 pence-a-share cash offer for Advanced Medical Solutions, even as an activist shareholder d…
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Tesla sued over fatal Texas crash the driver says happened on Autopilot
A wrongful-death suit filed days after a Model 3 ploughed into a Katy home leans on the same argument that produced last year’s $2…
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OVHcloud confirms its outlook as public cloud growth accelerates past 20%
Europe’s largest cloud company posted faster third-quarter growth and reaffirmed full-year guidance, with its public cloud segment…