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Austria asks the EU to consider giving Anthropic a home in Europe

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European government has, in writing, asked the European Union to find a way to host an American artificial-intelligence company. The request is unusual enough that the official making it conceded, in the same breath, that people would doubt it could be done. The official is Alexander Pröll, Austria’s state secretary for digitalisation, and the company […]

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Volkswagen reportedly plans to cut 100,000 jobs

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Volkswagen reportedly wants to cut 100,000 jobs, about 15% of its workforce, and close German plants. It would be the biggest overhaul in the carmaker’s history, and the unions are vowing to fight. Europe’s car industry is shrinking, and its biggest name is leading the retreat. Volkswagen reportedly plans to cut around 100,000 jobs at […]

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France’s statistics department hit by cyberattack on staff directory

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The institution that counts France found itself counting victims this week. INSEE, the national statistics department, said a cyberattack had exposed personal data belonging to about 12,800 current and former staff, along with members of the civil-service corps attached to the agency. The breach was detected on 19 June. What was taken, according to INSEE, […]

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Italy opens an antitrust probe into Microsoft 365’s AI price rise

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The regulator says customers were moved to a pricier Copilot-bundled plan unless they actively opted out, with too little information to choose. The mechanics of a price rise can matter as much as the price itself, which is the question Italy’s competition authority has now decided to examine. On 26 June, the regulator said it […]

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TensorX and Solstice line up $1bn to finance Europe’s sovereign AI buildout

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The partnership will fund EU AI hardware and data centres, and launch aiUSX, a yield asset that puts companies’ idle AI cash to work as infrastructure lending. Building sovereign AI in Europe takes chips, and chips take capital. TensorX and Solstice said they would supply the second to help buy the first, announcing a partnership […]

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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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