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Brussels moves to put AWS and Azure under its toughest tech rules

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The European Commission told Amazon and Microsoft that it takes the preliminary view that their cloud arms, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act. The wording matters more than it looks. Neither service meets the DMA’s quantitative thresholds. Brussels wants them in anyway. That is the […]

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Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness

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The actor and MEP Eva Maydell revealed RSL Media’s Human Consent Registry at the European Parliament, a tool that lets anyone set the terms on which AI can use their name, face and voice. The context is disarmingly simple: your face, your voice, your name, treated as property you get to license or withhold. Cate […]

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Tissium raises €60M to take its sutureless nerve glue to the US

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Tissium has raised €60M to carry the world’s only FDA-cleared sutureless nerve repair system into US operating rooms. The Paris medtech wants to swap the surgeon’s needle for a dab of light-cured glue. For a severed nerve, the standard repair has barely changed in decades. A surgeon stitches the two frayed ends together under a […]

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Main Capital raised the Netherlands’ biggest-ever fund on boring software

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While public markets panic that AI will gut enterprise software, a quiet Dutch firm just raised €5.25bn on the opposite bet. Main Capital’s pitch: boring, essential software is exactly where the next decade of value sits. Charly Zwemstra has spent 23 years buying software that almost nobody finds exciting. Think hospital appointment systems, municipal tax […]

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EU moves to turn Europol into an operational police force as digital crime climbs

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Brussels wants to double the agency’s staff and widen its data powers. Rights groups say it has written the surveillance before drawing the safeguards. The European Commission moved to give Europol a markedly bigger job. In a proposal set out as part of its drive to harden the bloc against organised, internet-based, and financial crime, […]

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The Brexit bill comes due: ten years, seven prime ministers, and an economy 6% smaller than it should be

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Ten years ago today, 52% of the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. The decade that followed delivered seven prime ministers, a permanently weakened currency, and an economy that a landmark study now estimates is between 6% and 8% smaller than it would have been had the country voted to remain. On Monday, […]

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Europe’s biggest tech CEOs have formed a standing lobby group with a direct line to von der Leyen

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Seven of Europe’s largest technology companies have created a permanent dialogue with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, pressing the bloc to deregulate faster and let European firms consolidate. The group, which calls itself the European Tech Creators, collectively generates €417 billion in annual revenue, represents nearly €1.1 trillion in market capitalisation, and employs close […]

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EU escalates its Meta probe over addictive design for kids

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The European Commission is preparing preliminary findings that accuse Facebook and Instagram of exploitative design that hooks children. The Meta addictive design probe could end in a fine worth up to 6% of global sales. Brussels is about to turn up the heat on Meta. The European Commission is preparing preliminary findings that accuse Facebook […]

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Nearfield Instruments raises a record $380M chip round

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Nearfield Instruments, a Rotterdam firm that inspects chips at the atomic scale, has raised $380mn at a $1.6bn valuation. It is the largest deep-tech round in Dutch history, and sovereign funds are paying close attention. Everyone knows the headline names of the AI chip boom. Nvidia designs the chips. TSMC makes them. ASML builds the […]

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Germany tells Trump: you cannot get to the moon without us

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Germany’s space minister has a message for Washington: the dependence runs both ways. In an interview with Politico at the VivaTech trade show in Paris this week, Dorothee Bär said Europe provides “critical key technologies” for American space missions, adding bluntly: “Without us, it cannot be done.” The claim is not bluster. NASA describes the European Service […]

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