Tech & Startups
European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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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
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AI will mean more humans needed for work, not replace us - Jeff Bezos
The Amazon founder, who now has robotics and space travel companies, thinks AI will create a labour shortage.
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Arcade raised $60M to fix the real wall blocking enterprise AI agents: what they’re allowed to do
The problem with letting an AI agent loose inside a company is not that it might forget who it is. It is that it has no reason to …
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Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker
Google is betting generative AI can breathe new life into the smart speaker. The company's new $99.99 Google Home Speaker replaces…
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The bottleneck in geothermal moved from the drill to the turbine. This SpaceX alum raised $22M to fix it
The race to power artificial intelligence has a problem that solar panels and wind turbines cannot fix on their own: the electrici…
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Why CMOs need a new operating system for accountability
Marketing leaders have never had access to more data, yet proving the business impact of advertising has become increasingly diffi…
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PayPal Ventures shutters as company restructuring continues
The corporate venture arm ends after 10 years and 80 investments.
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Google, Nvidia and Anthropic bosses' AI tips for students
Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang and Jack Clark share their advice with the BBC.
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China’s new five-year plan makes tracking AI’s hit to jobs a national priority
China has spent two years telling the world it intends to win the AI race. Its new five-year employment plan is the quieter admiss…
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Henrique Schmaiske and the human work behind Meteor 3.0
Meteor.js is one of those open-source projects developers have lived with for years. It has over 44,800 GitHub stars, more than 50…
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The slowtech revolution is here to kill your phone addiction and rescue your attention span
“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention... They’re down for whatever helps them …
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Poland bought a stake in ElevenLabs to grow its next AI champion
Poland produced one of the world’s most valuable AI companies almost by accident. Now it is spending public money to make sure the…
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‘Companies will have to go the extra mile’: How Europe can future-proofing its hiring strategy
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Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.
If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved.
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a16z is betting $38M that you want an AI ‘teammate’, not another agent
The word “agent” is everywhere in enterprise software right now, which is exactly why Convey does not want to use it. The startup …
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SAP just funded a startup built to help its own customers escape SAP
There is an unglamorous deadline bearing down on corporate IT, and it has just produced one of London’s more interesting AI raises…
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Google’s first speaker in six years is really a $10-a-month Gemini subscription
Google has finally made a new smart speaker, its first in roughly six years. The more interesting thing it has made is a reason to…
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Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI
Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be costly and r…
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The US is paying an AI startup $500M to break China’s grip on chip materials
The US government has just become a shareholder in an AI startup, in exchange for a bet that artificial intelligence can break Chi…