Italy opens an antitrust probe into Microsoft 365’s AI price rise
Italy opens an antitrust probe into Microsoft 365’s AI price rise

The regulator says customers were moved to a pricier Copilot-bundled plan unless they actively opted out, with too little information to choose. The mechanics of a price rise can matter as much as the price itself, which is the question Italy’s competi…

Tesla to hire 1,000 more Giga Berlin workers as Europe demand returns
Tesla to hire 1,000 more Giga Berlin workers as Europe demand returns

Tesla plans to hire another 1,000 workers at its Gigafactory outside Berlin, the automaker confirmed Thursday, as it moves to ramp production at its only European plant.
The hiring push comes as Tesla targets 7,500 vehicles per week at the Grünheide fa…

TensorX and Solstice line up $1bn to finance Europe’s sovereign AI buildout
TensorX and Solstice line up $1bn to finance Europe’s sovereign AI buildout

The partnership will fund EU AI hardware and data centres, and launch aiUSX, a yield asset that puts companies’ idle AI cash to work as infrastructure lending. Building sovereign AI in Europe takes chips, and chips take capital. TensorX and Solstice sa…

Brussels moves to put AWS and Azure under its toughest tech rules
Brussels moves to put AWS and Azure under its toughest tech rules

The European Commission told Amazon and Microsoft that it takes the preliminary view that their cloud arms, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act. The wording matters more than it loo…

The EU signs up to Pax Silica, the US-led chip pact France called colonisation
The EU signs up to Pax Silica, the US-led chip pact France called colonisation

Brussels is joining a Washington-led effort to secure AI chip supply chains, a fortnight after unveiling a tech-sovereignty agenda built on the opposite instinct. The European Union is set to join Pax Silica, the US-led initiative to coordinate AI chip…

Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness
Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness

The actor and MEP Eva Maydell revealed RSL Media’s Human Consent Registry at the European Parliament, a tool that lets anyone set the terms on which AI can use their name, face and voice. The context is disarmingly simple: your face, your voice, your n…

Tissium raises €60M to take its sutureless nerve glue to the US
Tissium raises €60M to take its sutureless nerve glue to the US

Tissium has raised €60M to carry the world’s only FDA-cleared sutureless nerve repair system into US operating rooms. The Paris medtech wants to swap the surgeon’s needle for a dab of light-cured glue. For a severed nerve, the standard repair has barel…

Main Capital raised the Netherlands’ biggest-ever fund on boring software
Main Capital raised the Netherlands’ biggest-ever fund on boring software

While public markets panic that AI will gut enterprise software, a quiet Dutch firm just raised €5.25bn on the opposite bet. Main Capital’s pitch: boring, essential software is exactly where the next decade of value sits. Charly Zwemstra has spent 23 y…

EU moves to turn Europol into an operational police force as digital crime climbs
EU moves to turn Europol into an operational police force as digital crime climbs

Brussels wants to double the agency’s staff and widen its data powers. Rights groups say it has written the surveillance before drawing the safeguards. The European Commission moved to give Europol a markedly bigger job. In a proposal set out as part o…

The Brexit bill comes due: ten years, seven prime ministers, and an economy 6% smaller than it should be
The Brexit bill comes due: ten years, seven prime ministers, and an economy 6% smaller than it should be

Ten years ago today, 52% of the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. The decade that followed delivered seven prime ministers, a permanently weakened currency, and an economy that a landmark study now estimates is between 6% and 8% sma…