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Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign, with headquarters in Berlin and Toronto

“No government or enterprise should have to choose between capable AI and control over their technology,” said Aidan Gomez, Cohere’s chief executive. Canada’s Cohere and Germany’s Aleph Alpha have signed a definitive business combination agreement, the companies said in their announcement on 16 September. The deal follows the planned combination they announced in April. It […]

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Veridion’s database has gone from 80 million companies to 642 million in three years. Experian is feeding it into credit models.

Veridion has raised a $20m Series A led by Hoxton Ventures, with its existing backers Underline Ventures, OTB Ventures, GapMinder, Day One Capital and LAUNCHub all returning. The company sells a continuously updated graph of the world’s businesses to risk, insurance, procurement and market intelligence buyers. Its own boilerplate puts the graph at 642 million companies […]

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The Commission president proposes no social media for children under 13 in the EU

The European Union plans to stop children under 13 from using social media and to prevent anyone under 15 from having a personal account, Ursula von der Leyen announced in her State of the Union address on Wednesday. “No social media under the age of 13. No personal account under the age of 15,” the […]

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Ursula Von der Leyen backs AI slowdown in State of the Union address

In the speech she gave in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Ursula Von der Leyen agreed to the AI industry’s call for a slowdown. “The EU would arrange a discussion with the major AI labs on how public authorities can support the industry’s efforts to pace the frontier of this disruptive technology, ” the Commission president said, […]

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“We’re way past vibes”: Lovable’s Anton Osika on who should build software

“We’re way past vibes,” Lovable co-founder and chief executive Anton Osika said at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. He was answering critics who say software built with AI by people outside engineering is a security risk. Osika spoke with TIME’s Ayesha Javed in a TIME100 session at Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2026. The title was “The […]

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Europe must build its own AI or risk being cut off, says ECB’s Lagarde

Europe must produce its own AI or risk being cut off from it, says Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank. She warned that a trade partner could use Europe’s reliance on foreign AI as leverage in negotiations. She made the case in a speech in Vienna on 14 September. Its title was “A […]

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Tandem Health raises $100m to turn its AI scribe into clinic software

Stockholm-based Tandem Health has raised $100m in a Series B round led by the Scaleup Europe Fund, which EQT manages. The company announced the round on 14 September. Existing investors Kinnevik, Northzone, Amino Collective, and Visionaries also took part. Tandem said the deal is the fund’s first investment in healthcare. The round follows a $50m […]

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ENISA used an OpenAI model to find four flaws in EU code, Politico reports

The EU’s cybersecurity agency used an OpenAI model to find four flaws in code for an EU project, Politico reported on 10 September. ENISA spokesperson Laura Heuvinck confirmed the findings to Politico’s Sam Clark. One flaw carries a high-risk rating, and an attacker could use it to hijack accounts. The flaws have since been fixed, […]

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The Commission unveils its EU Kids Act on Thursday with the age limit still unsettled

The European Commission will present the EU Kids Act on Thursday, its legislative response to more than a year of pressure from member states and parents over the impact of social media on children. Ursula von der Leyen and Henna Virkkunen, the EU’s technology chief, will introduce the proposal in Brussels. The central idea is […]

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A Nobel laureate and a former EU commissioner say Europe has one year to act on AI

Europe runs about five percent of the world’s AI data centre capacity. A group of senior European economists, policymakers and computer scientists has now put a figure on where it should be by 2030. Fifteen percent, which means building three times what exists today while the global total keeps climbing underneath. Philippe Aghion won the […]

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