HubSpot to cut 660 jobs as the company pivots to AI
HubSpot to cut 660 jobs as the company pivots to AI

HubSpot is eliminating about 660 roles, 7% of its workforce, in a restructuring its chief executive calls an AI strategy shift while insisting it is not driven by AI efficiencies. Its SEC filing concedes the timetable depends on local consultation law,…

San Francisco pauses new data centres in the hometown of AI
San Francisco pauses new data centres in the hometown of AI

San Francisco’s board of supervisors unanimously passed a 45-day moratorium on new data centres, extendable to 22 months, halting a Bayview expansion and a 49.5 MW Dogpatch project. Europe paused first and for a different reason, the grid, and now find…

Microsoft will block two Windows installer formats in Outlook from November
Microsoft will block two Windows installer formats in Outlook from November

Microsoft will add .msix and .msixbundle to Outlook’s blocked attachment list in early November, closing an email route for a packaging format its own threat researchers watched four criminal groups abuse in 2023. Renaming the extension still gets a pa…

Alibaba’s Joe Tsai says open source is Europe’s only way to AI independence
Alibaba’s Joe Tsai says open source is Europe’s only way to AI independence

Alibaba co-founder and chairman Joe Tsai says open-source AI is the only way for Europe to become independent in the technology. He spoke to founders and investors on Wednesday at Wave by Vento in Turin, in a session titled “The Other Side of the Story…

Bending Spoons’ Luca Ferrari says capital is no longer Europe’s big barrier
Bending Spoons’ Luca Ferrari says capital is no longer Europe’s big barrier

Bending Spoons co-founder and chief executive Luca Ferrari says access to capital is no longer the main obstacle for European founders. Strong companies can now raise at scale in Europe, he said on Wednesday. He was speaking on a panel at Wave by Vento…

Honda will test wireless EV charging on 300 metres of motorway in 2027
Honda will test wireless EV charging on 300 metres of motorway in 2027

Honda will test wireless charging built into a 300-metre stretch of Japanese motorway from next year, delivering up to 150 kW to vehicles moving at 120 km/h, aimed first at commercial vehicles. France, Germany and Sweden have been running or planning e…

Endeavor Catalyst closes $320M fund as Europe becomes its top growth market
Endeavor Catalyst closes $320M fund as Europe becomes its top growth market

Endeavor Catalyst has closed its fifth fund at $320M, and Europe is now its fastest-growing market. It made 12 investments through Endeavor’s European offices in the first half of 2026. That compares with 14 in all of 2025 and seven in 2024, the firm s…

Sierra announces Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard for personal AI agents
Sierra announces Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard for personal AI agents

Sierra and Meta are developing Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard defining how personal AI agents authenticate with businesses and what those businesses let them do, with Genesys, Instinct, Rocket, Shopify, Stripe and Walmart. A v0.1 specificati…

AMD’s chief says demand is outrunning supply, and that AI should police itself
AMD’s chief says demand is outrunning supply, and that AI should police itself

AMD’s Lisa Su said chip demand is running ahead of supply and will stay very high for years, and urged the AI industry to work together as an ecosystem on safety rather than naming any regulator. The European Commission has been able to inspect models,…

Revolut’s commercial real estate lending chief exits
Revolut’s commercial real estate lending chief exits

Duncan Batty, hired from M&G Investments in January 2025 to build Revolut’s commercial real estate lending business, has left the company, with his departure appearing in Companies House filings and confirmed by a spokesperson. Neither a reason nor…