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Pasqal’s SPAC filings reveal a $2bn French quantum bet, and a French kill switch

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France’s Pasqal is heading to Nasdaq at a $2bn valuation, roughly 100 times its revenue. Its own filings spell out two things. Quantum computing might never pay off. And Paris can veto who owns the company. Pasqal, the French quantum-computing firm, is going public in the United States. It is merging with a blank-cheque company, […]

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Moneybox is Europe’s newest unicorn, and it’s testing London’s new private market to prove it

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Moneybox is Europe’s newest unicorn, worth £800m, or $1.1bn. But no fundraise set that price. Staff did, by selling shares on London’s untested new private market. Moneybox, the British savings and investing app, is now a unicorn. It has put a value of about £800m, or $1.1bn, on itself, the Financial Times first reported. The […]

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Finland’s NestAI is building the AI layer Europe’s militaries want to own

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A Helsinki lab barely a year old, bankrolled by Nokia and the Finnish state, is now writing battlefield software with two defence ministries. The technology matters less than who controls it. On the last day of June, officials from Finland’s Ministry of Defence, the Estonian Defence Forces, and a Helsinki AI lab founded only last […]

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Intel commits $5.7bn to Xeon production in Ireland

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Intel is spending €5bn, or about $5.7bn, upgrading its campus at Leixlip outside Dublin, the company said on Monday. The money is not for a new fab. It is for getting more out of the ones already standing. The plan is to upgrade existing fabrication facilities, install leading-edge equipment, and extend the automated track system so […]

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Intel is putting 5 billion euros into Ireland, and Europe just got one of the few EUV fabs on the continent

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Intel is committing 5 billion euros, around $5.7bn, to expand its campus at Leixlip in Ireland. The money is aimed at data-centre processors for AI and high-performance computing, Bloomberg reports. It is a serious share of the company’s budget. The sum represents roughly 30% of Intel’s $17bn capital expenditure planned for 2026, with most of it […]

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Valarian raised $50m to help governments use US cloud without losing control of it

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A London startup co-founded by a former Palantir executive has raised $50m to help governments and companies use American cloud and AI without letting America reach inside. The fear driving it stopped being hypothetical this year. Valarian, a London-based sovereignty startup, has raised a $50m (£37m) Series A led by the US venture fund NEA, […]

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The EU has stopped sanctioning Russian hackers and started sanctioning the machine that makes them

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The European Union and the United Kingdom have jointly sanctioned Russia’s cyber apparatus for the first time. The EU listed nine individuals and four entities, while the UK went further with 24, Politico reports. The language is what matters here. The EU’s High Representative Kaja Kallas denounced not a group but an ecosystem, spanning intelligence services, […]

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Monzo founder Tom Blomfield joins Anthropic’s compute team

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Tom Blomfield built two of Britain’s best-known fintech companies. Now the Monzo founder is joining Anthropic, and his job is to help crack the AI industry’s hardest problem: compute. One of the biggest names in UK tech is heading to one of the most valuable companies in AI. Tom Blomfield co-founded the digital bank Monzo […]

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Decoupling from China would cost the West $23.6tn

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Cutting the West’s reliance on China would carry a staggering price. A new study puts the cost of decoupling from China at $23.6tn over 25 years, and warns the bill would land hardest on the industries building Europe’s tech future. The West has spent three years talking about reducing its dependence on China. A new […]

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France thinks cheap power is its AI edge. Now it must decide who plugs in

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France believes its cheap, low-carbon electricity is Europe’s overlooked advantage in AI. A debate has now opened over that power. Should it go to homegrown AI firms, or to the American giants building data centres on French soil? When the head of Europe’s biggest AI lab arrived at last month’s G7 working lunch on artificial […]

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