Halfway through 2026, the picture for Europe’s female founders is becoming impossible to ignore. A March 2026 PitchBook report, in fact, found that women-led teams are now receiving their smallest share of venture capital in nearly a decade, set at just 1.2% of total funding. Even in AI, the sector which attracted a record $9.2 ... Read more ›
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When C.H. Robinson’s stock dropped 14.5% in a single day this February, the panic wasn’t really about one company, but about whether AI was finally about to do to freight brokerage what it has already done to customer service and basic coding work. CEO Dave Bozeman’s answers to investors was reassuring, however – if predictable: ... Read more ›
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Dosty Walks has signed up 1,600 users in weeks, aiming to convert footsteps into 7,000kg of donated food this year. Most dogs alive today never see the inside of a home. An estimated 75% of the world’s roughly 900 million dogs are strays, and the shelters that exist to help them are usually one missed ... Read more ›
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Boston Consulting Group and Anchorage Digital are urging banks to move digital assets “from experimentation to scale,” in a new report aimed squarely at the U.S. market. But for European lenders, the real test comes sooner: a hard Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) cut-off on July 1, and a euro-stablecoin race already underway. According to the ... Read more ›
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Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, faces a major European setback as its Greek Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) licence application reportedly nears rejection before the deadline. The EU’s MiCA transitional period is set to conclude on July 1, 2026. Under this new framework, any exchange operating in the Union must hold an authorized license from ... Read more ›
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The UK government plans to block under-16s from major social media platforms starting spring 2027 in a move that targets Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X. It also brings a wider age-checking push that has already triggered privacy backlash. The country’s plan would effectively raise social media access age from 13 to 16, although ... Read more ›
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In a significant move toward consolidating the fragmented property technology landscape, real estate risk and compliance platform GetCovered has announced its acquisition of Revyse, an AI-powered vendor intelligence startup. This strategic acquisition marks the creation of the multifamily real estate sector’s first unified platform capable of managing operational risk across both residents and external vendors. ... Read more ›
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The U.S. government has ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its two most powerful AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns. The fallout landed squarely on European users who had no warning – and no say. The directive, issued Friday, June 12, invokes export control authority to bar all foreign nationals ... Read more ›
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The European Commission issued a €200 million fine to online retailer Temu for failing to assess and mitigate the risks posed by illegal and unsafe products on its platform. According to the Commission, EU consumers are “very likely to encounter illegal items on Temu.” The decision follows an investigation that found the company’s 2024 risk ... Read more ›
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When the European Parliament’s IT team quietly switched off the AI features on staff devices earlier this year, the reason wasn’t speculative. The features were sending data to the cloud, and Parliament’s security team decided that was a risk they couldn’t accept for an institution that handles confidential legislative work. The story barely registered outside ... Read more ›
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The European Central Bank (ECB) has increased interest rates for the first time since 2023, ending a lengthy pause as policymakers confront a fresh inflation problem driven largely by rising energy prices. The ECB announced on June 12 it raised its deposit facility rate from 2% to 2.25%, with the main refinancing rate moving to ... Read more ›
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The Microsoft Partner Network comprises more than 400,000 global organizations, with these partners being an important channel for how the tech heavyweight delivers innovative products and services to customers around the world. Community is a key part of this relationship, and Microsoft organizes a roster of events, workshops and seminars to engage with these companies, ... Read more ›
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Apple will open its first European Developer Centre in Berlin later this year, expanding direct support for app makers across Europe. The centre will offer workshops, sessions and one-on-one support in the city’s Mitte district, according to a company statement this week. The launch also comes as Apple faces stronger regulatory pressure across the European ... Read more ›
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As two of the world’s largest AI startups, OpenAI and Anthropic, establish new offices in London, the UK tech scene appears to be thriving. But women founders are experiencing a significant VC funding gap.  According to a report released by the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee in 2025, just 2% of equity investment ... Read more ›
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AI engineering firm Solvd announced this week it has officially joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a Linux Foundation project established to develop open, interoperable standards for agentic AI systems. The membership puts Solvd alongside founding members Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, Google and OpenAI in shaping the protocols that will govern how AI agents operate across ... Read more ›
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Creating an AI character that can talk in real-time with kids learning English as a foreign language was a yearslong process for the team behind the voice-based tutoring app Buddy.ai. The vision for the product update required developing an LLM with guardrails to keep conversations appropriate for children and focused on learning. The tool had ... Read more ›
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Europe produces 517 kilograms of waste per person every year, yet less than half of it ends up recycled. And, for decades, European populations have treated garbage as a logistics problem – a matter of moving or burying trash – which has left the industry as one of the least digitised in the world. Waste ... Read more ›
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EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen commented on the new provisional agreement proposing to streamline rules regarding artificial intelligence (AI), reached May 7 between the Council and the European Parliament. In a post on X, she stated: “I welcome the political agreement on our Digital Omnibus on AI. This provides a simple, innovation-friendly environment ... Read more ›
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Cybersecurity is changing. The limited release of Claude Mythos sent the security community into a tail spin, with concerns that frontier AI could be used to discover and exploit enterprise vulnerabilities. The Mythos model was dubbed too dangerous to be released, and Anthropic put together an international task force, known as Project Glasswing, to find ... Read more ›
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The UK tech scene has been on fire in 2026, with King’s Cross emerging as one of the true winners. Just last month, OpenAI and Anthropic, the AI startups behind ChatGPT and Claude, respectively, announced plans to open new offices in the area. The pair will be joining other startups including Google DeepMind, Meta, Wayve ... Read more ›
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