Norway’s $2.3 trillion wealth fund objects to John Elkann’s reappointment to Meta’s board
Norway’s $2.3 trillion wealth fund objects to John Elkann’s reappointment to Meta’s board

Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, has withheld its vote on the reappointment of John Elkann to Meta’s board of directors. The fund said it believes the Stellantis chairman and Exor CEO does not have eno…

Italian police seize a piracy app that streamed Sky, DAZN, and Netflix through hijacked real accounts
Italian police seize a piracy app that streamed Sky, DAZN, and Netflix through hijacked real accounts

Operazione Tutto Chiaro hit more than 100 sites across Italy, France, and Germany, targeting a system that rebroadcast legitimate subscription codes every three minutes. Italy’s Guardia di Finanza said on Friday it had dismantled an audiovisual piracy …

Europe’s go-to-market accelerator for AI Startups launches
Europe’s go-to-market accelerator for AI Startups launches

AcceleratorX, a new breed of startup accelerator purpose-built for AI founders opens Cohort 1 applications – offering startups unprecedented access to a pan-European network of 2,000+ marketing and communications professionals across 30 countries as re…

Anthropic to open a Milan office, lining the Italy push up behind a Vatican-led repositioning
Anthropic to open a Milan office, lining the Italy push up behind a Vatican-led repositioning

EMEA is already Anthropic’s fastest-growing region, with run-rate revenue up roughly 9x and large-business accounts up 10x year-on-year. The Milan office is the commercial operationalisation of an Italy strategy the company has been seeding politically…

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software just landed in its second European country, with more in the queue
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software just landed in its second European country, with more in the queue

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is no longer a single-country experiment in Europe. Lithuania became the second EU member state to approve FSD (Supervised) on Tuesday, just weeks after the Netherlands became the first. Greece and Belgium are expecte…

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is creeping into Europe

First came the Netherlands, now it’s Lithuania. And more European countries appear to be in the queue for Tesla’s driver assistance system.

Tesla launches FSD in second European country
Tesla launches FSD in second European country

Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” (Supervised) driver assistance software is now rolling out in Lithuania, making it the second European country to allow the system on public roads.

The Lithuanian Transport Safety Administration confirmed it has recognize…

French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites
French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites

A Scaleway-led AION consortium, with backing from Iliad, GENCI, Inria, Eviden, SiPearl, Hugging Face, and Mistral-adjacent partners, is positioning France as a single-country bidder against multi-state proposals from Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands…

Pope Leo XIV calls AI-directed warfare a “spiral of annihilation” in historic La Sapienza address
Pope Leo XIV calls AI-directed warfare a “spiral of annihilation” in historic La Sapienza address

  Pope Leo XIV used a historic visit to Europe’s largest university to denounce the growing role of artificial intelligence in warfare, warning that investments in AI-directed weaponry are driving the world toward what he called a “spiral of annihilati…

XPeng in talks to buy a Volkswagen plant in Europe as exports surge 62%
XPeng in talks to buy a Volkswagen plant in Europe as exports surge 62%

XPeng (XPEV) is in talks with Volkswagen about acquiring a factory in Europe as the Chinese EV maker’s contract production in Austria runs out of capacity. The company’s exports hit a record 6,006 vehicles in April, up 62% year-over-year.

The move c…