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Ireland takes the EU presidency with Big Tech paying 40 per cent of its tax bill

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Ireland takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU on 1 July, inheriting a legislative agenda that includes proposals to curb Europe’s reliance on American tech, simplify the bloc’s digital rulebook, decide whether to ban children from social media, and overhaul telecom regulations. The country holding the presidency is supposed to act as […]

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France just put another €13bn into the funding model the rest of Europe wants to copy

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France has found another €13bn for its tech sector. And it barely cost the state a thing. The money comes through Tibi, a programme that nudges French insurers and pension funds to back venture and growth funds instead of safer, lower-yield assets. The finance ministry announced this third phase at VivaTech on Friday. The goal […]

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Warren raises €10M to fix Belgium’s broken workplace pensions

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The typical Belgian works for about 40 years and retires with a workplace pension worth less than a second-hand car. Warren, a Ghent-based fintech, wants to fix that. The company has raised €10mn in a seed round led by Motive Ventures, the venture arm of transatlantic investor Motive Partners. F Capital joined, alongside returning backers […]

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The AI bubble didn’t pop. It sent the bill

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Until last week, about 200 organisations could use a preview of Anthropic’s most capable model, Mythos. They got in through a programme called Glasswing, after the system flagged thousands of software vulnerabilities. Then, on the evening of 12 June, the US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to cut off every foreign national, anywhere. The company could […]

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Retailers want AI-generated ads exempt from EU transparency rules

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Europe’s retailers would like the law to make an exception for them. AI-generated advertising should be carved out of the European Union’s incoming transparency rules, a retail association has argued, according to Reuters, taking aim at provisions that would require companies to label commercial content produced by artificial intelligence before those rules begin to bite […]

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Leaked licences show Bulgaria greenlit surveillance exports to governments accused of repression

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Bulgaria’s export control authority licensed a Sofia-based surveillance firm to sell phone-tracking tools, interception systems, and monitoring infrastructure to intelligence agencies in countries with documented records of suppressing dissent. The licences, published by Human Rights Watch on Wednesday, cover exports by Circles BG to government buyers in Azerbaijan, Serbia, Malaysia, Mexico, the UAE, and at least […]

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The EU is about to declare AWS and Azure gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act

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The European Commission is set to unveil preliminary findings as early as next week stating that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure appear to meet the requirements to be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act, Bloomberg reported. A final decision is expected by the end of 2026, though timelines could shift. If designated, […]

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While Helsing and Anduril chase billion-dollar valuations, Comand AI raised €32M for the layer above them

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The defence-tech land grab has a new front, and it sits above the drones and sensors that get the headlines. Comand AI, a Paris startup building AI software for military command, has raised a €32mn Series A led by Blossom Capital, with a strategic investment from Sweden’s Saab and renewed backing from Expeditions. The round […]

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85% of NATO’s defence-tech funding goes to the US. AVP and Earlybird raised €500M to change that.

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Europe is pledging hundreds of billions to defence. Almost none of the venture money funding the technology behind it is European. Since 2019, the US has captured around 85 per cent of all NATO defence-tech venture funding, according to the founders of a new fund out today. Europe accounted for just 6.2 per cent of […]

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NeuralTrust raised $20M to police the AI agents companies can’t even count

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NeuralTrust, a Barcelona startup, has raised $20mn to secure the AI agents that big companies are now deploying faster than they can keep track of. The seed round, worth €17.2mn, was led by Munich’s Alstin Capital, with VentureFriends, Seaya, Kibo Ventures, Banc Sabadell, the EA Ventures Plug and Play Fund and Finaves, plus public money […]

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