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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Basel, Switzerland – The Swiss biotech industry reached record revenues in 2025 and saw its highest funding for privately-financed companies, according to a report released Tuesday at a biotechnology conference in Basel. The report by the Swiss Biotech Association, EY, and partner organizations noted the industry’s resilience as a difficult capital market environment challenged the ... Read more ›
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If you weren’t using email in the early 2000s, it’s hard to grasp how severe the spam problem became. Every day brought with it a relentless flood of dubious pharmaceutical offers, get-rich-quick schemes, and thinly veiled attempts to steal your banking credentials. By 2007, as botnets matured, spam accounted for the majority of global email traffic, ... Read more ›
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The European Commission signaled in January 2026 that it wanted to commercialize European open-source software as part of its push for digital sovereignty. According to the consultation, the EU faces a “significant” problem in its dependence on non-EU countries in the digital sphere, which “reduces users’ choice, hampers EU companies’ competitiveness and can raise supply ... Read more ›
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AI agents have fast become one of the most hotly-debated solutions in tech. According to PWC, 88% of senior executives plan to increase AI budgets due to agentic AI, with 79% saying that AI agents are already being adopted in their companies. London-based startup Gradient Labs, founded by the team that previously led AI and ... Read more ›
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The steam engine, the electric motor, the telephone — all inventions that solidified Europe’s place as an architect of modern civilization during the first Industrial revolution. But somewhere between the third and fourth industrial revolutions, Europe began ceding ground. US cloud providers came to dominate the European market, and when the AI boom arrived, they ... Read more ›
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The Historical Parallels There are a few pivotal moments in history that defined the open source and community-driven approach to major technology development and adoption. Among them are: Homebrew Computer Club (1970-1980) The Homebrew Computer Club (1975–1986): Founded by Fred Moore and Gordon French in Menlo Park, the club was a pivotal crucible for the ... Read more ›
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This week, data intelligence platform Tracxn released its UK Tech Q1 Funding Report 2026, which found that the country’s tech funding reached $7.5 billion USD (€6.4 billion) in Q1 2026, up 32% from the $5.7 billion raised in Q1 2025. The funding marks the UK as the second-highest funded country in the world in Q1 ... Read more ›
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The UK government formally launched the Sovereign AI fund on April 16, 2026, as part of a broader effort to support innovation in the country. The fund will provide £500 million (€574 million) in investment to selected AI projects. While information about the Sovereign AI Initiative is limited, the official website says it will support ... Read more ›
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Last month, UK technology secretary Liz Kendall backtracked on plans to let AI firms use copyright-protected work without permission. The government now no longer has a “preferred option” on copyright reform, after previously issuing a proposal that tech companies would be able to train on copyrighted work unless creatives opted out. At a glance, the ... Read more ›
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