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From powerboat records to a $1bn war chest: meet Europe’s newest defence unicorn

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First the Royal Navy shoved a robot boat out of a transport plane at 1,300 feet. Then its maker became Europe’s newest defence unicorn. Kraken Technology Group, a British maker of uncrewed surface vessels, has raised $175m (€152.9m) in a Series B round. It values the company at more than $1bn. Kraken announced the raise […]

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EU tells Meta to dismantle Facebook and Instagram’s ‘addictive’ design or face a fine

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Brussels has decided that infinite scroll is not a feature but a hazard. On Friday, the European Commission told Meta to dismantle the design tricks that keep people glued to Facebook and Instagram, or risk a fine that could run into billions, in a fresh set of charges under the EU’s Digital Services Act. The […]

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The US wants to delete the steering wheel. The EU wants a camera on your face

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This week, two of the world’s biggest car regulators looked at the same question and reached opposite answers. The question is simple. What should sit between a human and a moving vehicle? In the United States, the top auto-safety official floated pulling the steering wheel out altogether. In Europe, new rules took effect that point […]

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A €91M bet on the diamond microscope that could be Europe’s next ASML

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Europe uses about a fifth of the world’s chips, but makes only a tenth of them. A three-year-old Munich startup thinks it can help close that gap, and Brussels has just backed the bet. QuantumDiamonds is a spin-out of the Technical University of Munich. It has raised €91M to scale a new way of finding […]

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Dutch watchdogs urge Europe’s banks to pool buying power against US tech giants

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A single European bank haggling with Amazon or Microsoft has almost no leverage. A few hundred of them haggling together might. That, stripped to its essence, is the recommendation Dutch regulators handed their government on Friday, in a report warning that Europe’s reliance on American technology is deepening rather than easing. The proposals came from […]

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SAP averts an EU antitrust fine by opening up its support market

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SAP has talked its way out of an EU antitrust fine. The European Commission said it would accept a set of commitments from the German software group, closing an investigation into how SAP handles maintenance and support for its on-premise enterprise software and sparing it a penalty that could have run into the billions. It […]

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EU Parliament revives a ‘zombie’ child-abuse scanning bill it rejected in March

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The European Parliament has voted to advance a bill letting tech companies legally scan for child sexual abuse material. On Thursday in Strasbourg, lawmakers sent the proposal to EU member states for approval, Politico reports. The twist is that Parliament rejected this same bill in March. It was revived after a push by the centre-right European […]

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AMD’s CTO: agentic AI doesn’t just need GPUs, it needs a lot more CPUs

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On stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris, the interviewer put it bluntly to Mark Papermaster. He should have bought AMD shares six months ago, he joked, back when they traded near $200. They now sit above $500. AMD is no longer the plucky underdog chasing Intel on CPUs and Nvidia on GPUs. Its market […]

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This EU-first robocar tests at 120 km/h, and uses no AI to drive

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Aidoptation can now test a fully self-driving car at highway speed on Belgian public roads. It is the first Level 4 permit of its kind in the European Union. The company announced the approval, which covers 100 km of the E313 and E314 motorways in Limburg. Level 4 means the car handles everything, with no […]

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The John Deere repair win isn’t about tractors. It’s about software lock-in

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John Deere owners can finally fix their own machines. The US Federal Trade Commission and five states have reached a settlement with the tractor giant that forces it to share the software and tools needed for repairs, the Associated Press reported. It is the largest right-to-repair win in the US so far. The fight was […]

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