Europe frets over American AI as the tech world descends on France
Europe frets over American AI as the tech world descends on France

The timing was almost too neat. Days before more than 180,000 people were due to file into VivaTech in Paris, and before G7 leaders sat down at the lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains, the United States tightened access to Anthropic’s most advanced mode…

This Swedish startup doesn’t want to give patent lawyers AI tools. It wants to replace them.
This Swedish startup doesn’t want to give patent lawyers AI tools. It wants to replace them.

A Swedish startup wants to do to patent attorneys what Harvey and Legora are doing to corporate lawyers, except it is not trying to give them better tools. It wants to replace them. Lightbringer has raised $10m (€8.6m) in a Series A to take its self-st…

BAE Systems is funding the startups that want to disrupt it
BAE Systems is funding the startups that want to disrupt it

BAE Systems, the UK’s largest defence company, is putting €50m into venture capital, a bet that the startups it backs today could shape the weapons it sells tomorrow. The money will flow into VC funds focused on European defence-tech, with €25m of it g…

EU Parliament strips immunity from senior Italian MEP in Huawei bribery probe
EU Parliament strips immunity from senior Italian MEP in Huawei bribery probe

The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to lift the parliamentary immunity of Fulvio Martusciello, clearing the way for Belgian prosecutors to pursue bribery allegations linked to Chinese tech giant Huawei. The vote was 344 in favour, 234 against, wit…

The EU just passed the Turnberry trade deal. The tech fight is only starting.
The EU just passed the Turnberry trade deal. The tech fight is only starting.

The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to ratify the Turnberry Agreement, the trade deal struck at Donald Trump’s Scottish golf resort in July 2025. The final tally was 440 in favour, 151 against, with 50 abstentions. Under the deal, the EU will elim…

Baidu Apollo Go wins Level 4 robotaxi approval in Switzerland as AmiGo
Baidu Apollo Go wins Level 4 robotaxi approval in Switzerland as AmiGo

Baidu’s Apollo Go has received a Level 4 autonomous driving permit in Switzerland for AmiGo, a robotaxi service it is running with Swiss Post’s PostBus, putting the Chinese tech giant ahead of Waymo and Tesla in deploying driverless vehicles into Europ…

France’s intelligence service is dropping Palantir for a homegrown rival
France’s intelligence service is dropping Palantir for a homegrown rival

France’s domestic intelligence agency is dropping Palantir. The DGSI will replace the American firm’s data-analysis tools with software from ChapsVision, a French company, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday, framing the switch as part of …

As Europe rearms, the ‘wingman’ drone takes centre stage at the Berlin airshow
As Europe rearms, the ‘wingman’ drone takes centre stage at the Berlin airshow

The aircraft drawing crowds at last week’s Berlin airshow was not the one with a pilot in it. The “loyal wingman,” an uncrewed jet built to fly beside a manned fighter and carry the extra sensors, jammers, and weapons the fighter cannot, has become Eur…

France to spend €655m on AI and a single chatbot for the whole civil service
France to spend €655m on AI and a single chatbot for the whole civil service

France wants its civil servants to share a chatbot. On Monday, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced an additional €655m for artificial intelligence, the headline use of which is a single sovereign conversational assistant intended for every publi…

Ukraine gains access to EU emergency cyber response for major attacks
Ukraine gains access to EU emergency cyber response for major attacks

Ukraine can now draw on emergency European Union cyber support to respond to large-scale incidents, after the Council of the EU approved its inclusion in the EU Cybersecurity Reserve on 15 June. The decision extends a defensive mechanism built for memb…