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EU tells Big Tech to align AI data centres with climate goals or stay away

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The European Union’s energy chief has told the AI industry it is welcome in Europe, but only on the bloc’s terms. In an interview with Politico, Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen said companies must demonstrate commitment to the EU’s energy, climate, and environmental goals if they want to build data centres on the continent. That means supporting […]

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Swiss startup Prem AI is raising $100M so hedge funds and law firms can own their AI instead of renting it

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Prem AI, a Swiss startup that helps hedge funds and law firms run AI models on their own infrastructure, is raising $100 million in a Series A at a valuation of at least $500 million. The company expects to close the round in the third quarter. CEO and founder Simone Giacomelli said the pitch is […]

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EU cybersecurity agency to meet Anthropic under a US export cloud

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The European Union’s cybersecurity agency was due to meet Anthropic on Thursday, the European Commission confirmed, a meeting arranged before Washington made it considerably more awkward. ENISA, the EU’s cybersecurity body, had been invited to talks with the AI company that were set in motion weeks earlier, well ahead of the US export directive now […]

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France breaks EDF’s grip on hydropower with law to auction 6 GW a year

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France’s Parliament adopted a bill on Tuesday that dismantles the monopoly Électricité de France has held over the country’s hydropower market for decades, according to Bloomberg. The law converts EDF’s hydropower concessions into permits and requires the state-owned utility to auction 6 gigawatts of capacity each year under the supervision of France’s energy regulator, CRE. EDF […]

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Meloni says banning kids from social media is not a solution on its own

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Wednesday that her government would not take the initiative to introduce a social media ban for teens, breaking from the approach taken by Britain and France. “I am not against a social media ban for under-16s, but I am not either convinced that this proposal alone can solve […]

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A million Dutch adults get news solely from social media. Only 12% trust what they see.

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More than one million people in the Netherlands now rely exclusively on social media for news, according to the 2026 Digital News Report published on Tuesday. They use no news websites, no television, no radio, and only 12% say they trust what they encounter on those platforms. The group represents 7% of Dutch adults, up from 2% […]

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Poland bought a stake in ElevenLabs to grow its next AI champion

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Poland produced one of the world’s most valuable AI companies almost by accident. Now it is spending public money to make sure the next one stays closer to home. Vinci, the venture arm of Poland’s state development bank BGK, has taken an $11mn stake in ElevenLabs, the AI-voice firm valued at $11bn. The same day, […]

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SAP just funded a startup built to help its own customers escape SAP

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There is an unglamorous deadline bearing down on corporate IT, and it has just produced one of London’s more interesting AI raises. Conduct, a 35-person startup founded by three former Palantir engineers, has raised a $60mn Series A co-led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ, with SAP itself investing. The round takes its total funding to […]

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Estonia wants to give every AI agent its own ID number

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When an AI agent does something on your behalf today, it usually has to become you. It logs in as you, with your access to everything. Estonia wants to end that. The country plans to issue personal identification numbers to AI assistants, the first nation to do so, prime minister Kristen Michal said. The idea […]

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Jeff Bezos is backing a two-year-old Cambridge AI lab at a $2.6bn valuation

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Jeff Bezos appears to have settled on his AI thesis, and it is not chatbots. It is the physical world. CuspAI, a two-year-old Cambridge startup that uses AI to design new materials, is in talks to raise about $400mn at a $2.6bn valuation, the Financial Times reports. The round is led by Bezos Expeditions, the […]

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