Veridion has raised a $20m Series A led by Hoxton Ventures, with its existing backers Underline Ventures, OTB Ventures, GapMinder, Day One Capital and LAUNCHub all returning. The company sells a continuously updated graph of the world’s businesses to r…
The European Union plans to stop children under 13 from using social media and to prevent anyone under 15 from having a personal account, Ursula von der Leyen announced in her State of the Union address on Wednesday. “No social media under the age of 1…
In the speech she gave in Strasbourg on Wednesday, Ursula Von der Leyen agreed to the AI industry’s call for a slowdown. “The EU would arrange a discussion with the major AI labs on how public authorities can support the industry’s efforts to pace the …
“We’re way past vibes,” Lovable co-founder and chief executive Anton Osika said at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. He was answering critics who say software built with AI by people outside engineering is a security risk. Osika spok…
Europe must produce its own AI or risk being cut off from it, says Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank. She warned that a trade partner could use Europe’s reliance on foreign AI as leverage in negotiations. She made the case in a …
Stockholm-based Tandem Health has raised $100m in a Series B round led by the Scaleup Europe Fund, which EQT manages. The company announced the round on 14 September. Existing investors Kinnevik, Northzone, Amino Collective, and Visionaries also took p…
The EU’s cybersecurity agency used an OpenAI model to find four flaws in code for an EU project, Politico reported on 10 September. ENISA spokesperson Laura Heuvinck confirmed the findings to Politico’s Sam Clark. One flaw carries a high-risk rating, a…
The European Commission will present the EU Kids Act on Thursday, its legislative response to more than a year of pressure from member states and parents over the impact of social media on children. Ursula von der Leyen and Henna Virkkunen, the EU’s te…
BYD unveiled its most complete electric commercial vehicle lineup yet at IAA Transportation 2026 in Hannover, headlined by the ETT 44, a heavy-duty tractor with up to 600 km of range and 1.5-megawatt charging.
It’s BYD’s clearest shot yet at Europe’…
Europe runs about five percent of the world’s AI data centre capacity. A group of senior European economists, policymakers and computer scientists has now put a figure on where it should be by 2030. Fifteen percent, which means building three times wha…