Bending Spoons opens a Warsaw office after 50,000 Polish applications
Bending Spoons opens a Warsaw office after 50,000 Polish applications

“We’ve received around 50,000 applications from Poland so far this year, more than twice as many as the whole of 2025,” said Andrea Maiorana, Bending Spoons’ talent data lead. The Milan company said on Monday that it has opened an office in Warsaw. It …

The EU will rate data centres on energy and water from 2027
The EU will rate data centres on energy and water from 2027

Europe’s data centers are to be graded on how much energy and water they use, under a rating scheme proposed on Monday by the European Commission. Any individual site drawing more than 500 kW is covered. What the rating measures is not only consumption…

Spain’s prime minister thinks the AI industry’s safety warnings are partly a fundraising strategy
Spain’s prime minister thinks the AI industry’s safety warnings are partly a fundraising strategy

“La autorregulación no funciona.” Self-regulation does not work, Pedro Sánchez told employers and union officials at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid on Monday, closing a government event on artificial intelligence hours before flying to New York for the U…

Oura’s IPO seeks $2.2bn, and 73% of it goes to existing shareholders
Oura’s IPO seeks $2.2bn, and 73% of it goes to existing shareholders

Oura spent the first nine months of its financial year buying its own shares back from its investors. On Monday it started selling them to everybody else. The Finnish smart ring maker launched its initial public offering before the New York open. It is…

The ECB will invest in tokenised securities, and settle the trades on its own new rail
The ECB will invest in tokenised securities, and settle the trades on its own new rail

The European Central Bank is preparing to put some of its own money into tokenized securities, moving from building the plumbing for digital asset markets to buying in them. Settlement will occur in central bank money, routed through Pontes, the system…

US employers use software to punish workers at sixteen times the European rate. The gap is the law.
US employers use software to punish workers at sixteen times the European rate. The gap is the law.

An OECD employer survey of 6,047 firms across six countries found that 67% of US firms use software to sanction poor performance, against 4% in the four European countries surveyed. American firms also monitor the content and tone of conversations at 5…

Nexperia will make chips in India with Tata as it splits from Wingtech
Nexperia will make chips in India with Tata as it splits from Wingtech

“We are thrilled to partner with Nexperia for manufacturing their products at our semiconductor facilities in Dholera and Jagiroad,” said Randhir Thakur, chief executive of Tata Electronics. The Dutch chipmaker and the Indian manufacturer announced a p…

Revolut plans a dual London and Nasdaq listing, Storonsky tells Les Echos
Revolut plans a dual London and Nasdaq listing, Storonsky tells Les Echos

“In reality, we are currently planning a dual listing, on the London Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq,” Nik Storonsky told Les Echos. The Revolut founder was in Paris on Monday. Gabriel Nédélec and Ingrid Feuerstein interviewed him for the French paper, w…

Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers
Ex-Palantir engineers raise $600m to take on US health insurers

“We did not set out to build another health insurance company,” said Ty Wang, co-founder and chief executive of Angle Health. The aim, he told the Wall Street Journal, was to stop “this kind of death spiral of cost within our healthcare system.” His co…

Huawei’s chairman says Chinese AI can’t yet see the risks it should fear
Huawei’s chairman says Chinese AI can’t yet see the risks it should fear

“Maybe the type of risk from AI that they can feel, they can perceive, is something that people in China or AI model providers in China cannot,” Eric Xu said in Shanghai this week. Huawei’s rotating chairman was talking about American AI labs. His argu…