Tech & Startups
Tech & Startups
European technology, startups, AI and innovation.
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Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp hit by a major Meta outage
Meta had a bad Friday morning. A major Meta outage knocked out Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger for users around the w
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Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi wins Level 4 approval in Switzerland
Baidu’s robotaxis are heading to the Alps. AmiGo, a venture between the Chinese giant’s Apollo Go robotaxi unit and Swiss Post’s P
Meta is giving free AI glasses to every blind veteran in America
Humanoid robot maker EngineAI files for a Hong Kong IPO
Mistral is in funding talks at a €20bn valuation
SpaceX rings the bell on its Nasdaq debut, and Musk admits he gave it ‘less than a 10% chance’
Agentjacking: a fake bug report can hijack your AI coding agent
OpenAI acquires Ona to run Codex agents inside the customer’s own cloud
Nvidia’s Vera CPU is its side door back into China
A SpaceX-Tesla merger was a fantasy. The IPO just made it look plausible.
Founders Fund put $600M into SpaceX. The IPO just turned it into $50bn.
Current’s $80M Series E values the neobank below its 2021 peak
SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, but your retirement fund is picking up the tab
Google sues suspected Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build scam websites
Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 curbs target China. The backlash came from its own side.
Alibaba is offering $1.5 billion for China’s last big independent grocer. The bidding war with Meituan is on.
Infineon is opening a €5 billion chip factory in Dresden. It is the EU Chips Act’s first major success.
Slovakia’s Nordics rebrands as Definic, raises €2.5 million to scale its vendor intelligence platform
SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest IPO in history. Japanese retail investors got $2.2 billion of it.
