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Europe’s child safety laws require collecting the data its privacy laws forbid

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Summary: Europe’s effort to protect children online has collided with its own privacy architecture. The ePrivacy derogation allowing voluntary CSAM scanning expired on April 3 after Parliament voted 311-228 to reject its extension, the EU’s new age verification app announced April 15 was hacked in under two minutes, and the CSA Regulation (“Chat Control”) remains […]

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Norway plans to ban social media for children under 16 and shift age verification liability to platforms

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The minority Labour government, led by PM Jonas Gahr Støre, announced the legislation on Friday. The age threshold has been raised from the 15-year limit proposed in the 2025 consultation, aligning Norway with Australia’s world-first ban that came into force in December. Ireland is also considering similar legislation. Norway’s minority Labour government announced on Friday […]

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The EU is about to tell Google that Gemini cannot have Android to itself

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The European Commission is preparing to tell Google exactly how it must open Android to rival AI assistants, escalating a regulatory confrontation that will determine whether artificial intelligence becomes the next great platform lock-in or the first to be broken before it sets. EU watchdogs are poised to lay out what Alphabet must do to […]

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Norway’s $2.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund posts a 1.9% loss in Q1 2026

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The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund lost NOK636 billion ($68 billion) in investment returns in the first quarter, driven by the equity slide among large US technology companies. The S&P 500 posted its deepest quarterly decline since 2022. The fund marginally outperformed its benchmark. Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages Norway’s Government Pension Fund […]

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ATMOS Space Cargo raises €25.7M to build Europe’s first routine orbital return service

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A year after flying and recovering the continent’s first private re-entry capsule, the German-French startup is moving from demonstration to operations. Three PHOENIX 2 vehicles, a new defence entity, and a next-generation 1-tonne capsule are all funded by the round. ATMOS Space Cargo, the European company developing orbital transport and re-entry vehicles, has closed a […]

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Ofcom opens formal investigation into Telegram over child sexual abuse concerns

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The UK’s online safety regulator has opened a formal investigation into Telegram under the Online Safety Act, examining whether the messaging platform has complied with its duties to protect UK users from child sexual abuse material. It is Ofcom’s most significant enforcement action against a major messaging platform to date. The UK’s online safety regulator […]

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Europe is pouring tens of billions of public money into VC. The hard part is making it work

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The European Investment Fund is raising a €15 billion fund of funds called ETCI 2 that aims to unlock up to €80 billion in scaleup funding across Europe. Germany’s WIN initiative is targeting €12 billion by 2030. France’s Tibi programme has pledged €7 billion in private capital and labelled 92 VC and growth funds with […]

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EU awards its €180 million sovereign cloud contract to four European providers

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Post Telecom (with CleverCloud and OVHcloud), StackIT, Scaleway, and Proximus (with S3NS, a Thales – Google Cloud joint venture, plus Clarence and Mistral) have won the European Commission’s six-year sovereign cloud framework contract. The Proximus consortium’s inclusion signals that non-European technology can qualify as ‘sovereign’ under the Commission’s framework if operated within a sufficiently strict […]

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Stockholm’s BioLamina secures €20M EIB loan to scale the protein matrices that make cell therapies possible

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The European Investment Bank is lending €20 million to BioLamina, the Swedish biotech that supplies the laminin-based cell culture matrices used by stem cell therapy developers worldwide. The funding will support expanded production of laminin technologies and animal-free drug safety testing methods. BioLamina, the Stockholm-based biotechnology company that produces the protein scaffolding used to grow […]

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Cambridge biotech STORM Therapeutics raises $56M

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STC-15 is the world’s first RNA-modifying enzyme inhibitor to reach human trials. Phase 1 showed durable tumour regression across multiple sarcoma subtypes. The $56M Series C is backed entirely by existing investors including Pfizer Ventures and M Ventures. STORM Therapeutics, a Cambridge-based clinical-stage biotech targeting RNA modifications to treat cancer, has raised $56 million in […]

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