Tech & Startups
European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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NEA’s Tiffany Luck says enterprises are still figuring out their AI ROI
Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage…
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PsiQuantum breaks ground in Australia on what it says will be the world’s first utility-scale quantum computer
PsiQuantum has broken ground on a facility in Moreton Bay, Queensland, where it plans to build and deploy what it calls the world’…
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FTC lawsuit reveals how subscription scam networks evade app store enforcement
A new FTC lawsuit reveals how sophisticated subscription app operators can allegedly use shell companies and payment infrastructur…
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Apple investors are running out of patience with its AI promises
Apple investors are losing patience with the company’s AI strategy. The stock is coming off its worst week since February after th…
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France breaks EDF’s grip on hydropower with law to auction 6 GW a year
France’s Parliament adopted a bill on Tuesday that dismantles the monopoly Électricité de France has held over the country’s hydro…
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World leaders want American AI. They just don’t want America to be able to turn it off.
French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overni…
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Anthropic and Google DeepMind called for a US-led AI coalition at the G7, and Canada said yes
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis used a closed-door lunch at the G7 summit on Wednesday to call for…
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Allbirds sells its shoes, renames itself Smartbird, and says it is now an AI infrastructure company
Allbirds, the sustainable footwear company that went public at a $4.1 billion valuation in 2021, has officially renamed itself Sma…
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Meloni says banning kids from social media is not a solution on its own
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Wednesday that her government would not take the initiative to introduce a social me…
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Anthropic becomes first AI startup to join the Frontier carbon removal coalition
Anthropic has joined the Frontier coalition, which received another $915M in pledges to fund carbon removal projects.
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Amazon admits its AI models lag behind OpenAI and Anthropic, but says it can catch up
Amazon’s AI chief has said what the market long suspected. Peter DeSantis, the senior vice president who oversees the company’s AI…
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Cybercriminals allegedly hacked tens of thousands of Fortinet firewalls used by major companies all over the world
An alleged Russian-speaking group of cybercriminals are reportedly compromising and targeting several major companies that use For…
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Social media’s next evolution: user-controlled algorithms
Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users …
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Britain lobbied Trump for an exemption from the Anthropic AI ban. The answer was no.
Sir Keir Starmer’s government spent the weekend lobbying the White House to restore British access to Anthropic’s most capable AI …
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Mastodon adds email newsletters so people who don’t want an account can still follow creators on the open social web
Mastodon is betting that email, the oldest surviving communication protocol on the internet, can solve its biggest problem: reachi…
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Gary Marcus warns OpenAI’s IPO could drag Nvidia, Oracle, and CoreWeave down with it
Gary Marcus has spent years warning that the AI industry is building on shaky foundations. Now he sees a specific chain of dominoe…
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A 21-year-old Stanford grad just raised $11.6M to build a wearable hormone monitor that doesn’t need blood
Clair Health, a San Francisco startup founded by two Stanford graduates, has raised $11.6 million in seed funding to build what it…
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SpaceX’s surging stock just turned its valuation into an acquisition weapon
SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 a share on 12 June. Five days later, the stock has climbed nearly 50%, pushing SpaceX past Amazon to…
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World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names
World models are the next big thing in AI beyond LLMs and, with this round, Odyssey has cemented itself as one of the startups to …
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Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web
Mastodon’s newly launched newsletter feature lets anyone subscribe to creators by email, even without a Mastodon account.
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Half of Americans now use AI chatbots, but 40% think AI will make society worse and two-thirds don’t trust the government to regulate it
Half of American adults now use AI chatbots, but a plurality believe the technology will ultimately damage society, and overwhelmi…
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A million Dutch adults get news solely from social media. Only 12% trust what they see.
More than one million people in the Netherlands now rely exclusively on social media for news, according to the 2026 Digital News …
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Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows
Although Wall Street loves AI, every day Americans are significantly less optimistic about the industry, a new report from Pew Res…
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Two Stanford grads raise $11M to build a noninvasive wearable for hormone tracking
Clair Health's wearable will cost $369 and will an app-based subscription of $9.99 per month