Tech & Startups
European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ and calls Copilot agents a backdoor
Signal president Meredith Whittaker has warned that AI chatbots “are not your friends,” “are not conscious beings,” and “are not s…
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Why an AI company cleaned my New York City apartment for free
An AI company is sending free cleaners door-to-door in a bid to train the robots it hopes one day will replace them.
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How the social media ban could reshape how all of us use the internet
Why some argue the social media ban could have a profound affect on how young people gain new knowledge and the rest of us move ar…
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”
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In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
So ... what's your In the Weights score?
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Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish
Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.
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Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies at 69 in plane crash near La Baule
Claude Guillemot, one of five brothers who co-founded Ubisoft in 1986, has died in a plane crash near the coastal town of La Baule…
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Hackers are mass-exploiting a Gravity SMTP flaw to steal API keys from 100,000 WordPress sites
Attackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in the Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin that exposes API keys, OAuth tokens, and de…
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Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.
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Every new iOS 27 feature that’s worth knowing about
While it's not flashy like Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades, there are still a number of additions to iOS 27 wo…
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New video game console aims to get kids moving
The Nex Playground will cost £269 (€319) when it is released on 22 June in the UK and Ireland.
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He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.
French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control …
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From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn’t stop anyone
For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would…
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Go eyes robotaxis and acquisitions after Japan’s biggest IPO of 2026 — here’s why it matters
Go's IPO — Japan's biggest so far this year — has done more than provide a much-needed boost to the country's languishing listing …
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Aura’s impressive e-ink photo frame doesn’t even look digital
All of Aura's frames connect to the Aura app, which is where you can upload photos from your phone, web, email, iCloud, or Google …
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Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.
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Is the US government’s Anthropic ban accidentally helping the brand?
Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos …
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Billionaire Ambani wants AI in every call, app, and home
Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.
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‘None of us will do it alone’: European solidarity takes over VivaTech
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The CEO of Allbirds’ new AI biz has a plan. Now she needs a “brand-new team”
Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what's next is less clear.
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GTA 6 - all you need to know about Rockstar's blockbuster game
Rockstar's sixth game in the franchise is set to be the biggest game release of the year.
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Eric Slesinger’s 201 Ventures plots second defence fund, sources say
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The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China, but how?
There's a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.
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