Tech & Startups
European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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HCLTech wins $1.14bn deal with a European firm, its biggest since 2023
HCLTech has signed a $1.14 billion contract with a major European company, the Indian IT services group said Thursday, in what is …
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EU lawmaker who investigated spyware abuse was hacked with Pegasus
Stelios Kouloglou spent two years on the European Parliament committee set up to investigate governments spying on their own citiz…
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Blackstone’s QTS terminates its Digital Gateway data centre project in Virginia
QTS, the data centre operator owned by Blackstone, has terminated its Digital Gateway project in Prince William County, Virginia, …
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Scientists built a cell from scratch that eats, divides and evolves. They just won’t call it alive
Scientists in Minnesota have built a cell from scratch. It can feed, grow, and divide, and it competes with its own offspring. Its…
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Anthropic and the Trump administration deny discussing a government stake
The Trump administration and Anthropic have not discussed the government taking an equity stake in the AI company, a source famili…
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Zuckerberg says Meta’s AI agent progress is slower than expected
Mark Zuckerberg told Meta employees on Thursday that the company’s AI agents have not progressed as quickly as he expected, four m…
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Quantum Systems raises $1.2bn and doubles its valuation to $8bn as defence money floods in
Europe has a new defence-tech heavyweight. Quantum Systems, a German maker of autonomous drones, has raised $1.2bn and more than d…
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Alibaba to ban Claude Code over alleged backdoor risk, source says
The workplace ban, starting July 10, lands weeks after Anthropic accused operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen lab of running the lar…
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Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware
A government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the …
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Mapped: the AI labs taking over King’s Cross
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One unicorn a week: Europe's new model for billion-dollar startups
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Bending Spoons CEO on $18bn IPO: ‘We’re building a legendary institution’
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Last chance to apply — Startup Battlefield Australia applications close July 6
If you're going to apply for Startup Battlefield Australia, now is the time. Applications close July 6, and once the deadline pass…
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Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped
At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.
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Private space pilots are flying orbital missions for the US Space Force
True Anomaly and Rocket Lab are performing Top Gun-style satellite fly-bys for the US military.
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Thiel Capital’s Jack Selby nabs stakes in hot startups like Etched through Arizona connections
Selby's VC firm Copper Sky Capital is currently raising a $300 million second fund, according to a regulatory filing.
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IQM, Europe’s first public quantum company, admits the future of the tech is uncertain
IQM, a full-stack quantum company out of Finland, went public on the Nasdaq today at a valuation of about $1.9 billion.
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Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become
Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But low and…
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Anthropic is in talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip
Anthropic is in talks with Samsung Electronics to explore manufacturing a custom AI chip, The Information reported on Thursday. Th…
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A warning sign about AI’s real cost, courtesy of Google and Amazon
AI has made it a lot harder for tech companies like Amazon and Google to deliver on their net-zero pledges.
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Boeing’s autonomous air taxi subsidiary faces a whistleblower lawsuit over rushed software testing
A former software manager at Wisk Aero, Boeing’s autonomous air taxi subsidiary, has filed a lawsuit alleging she was fired after …
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Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket
Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental AI app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games using text prom…
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Travel app Hopper to pay $35M in FTC settlement over ‘unfairly’ charging hidden fees
Hopper will pay $35 million to settle FTC allegations that it used deceptive “dark patterns” to hide fees and mislead travelers ab…
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Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung
The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.