The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity
Dropbox founder Drew Houston steps down as CEO after 19 years as the company he built gets squeezed by Google and Apple
Brussels plans to ringfence two-thirds of EU mobile-satellite spectrum for European firms
Stord raises $250 million to give independent brands the shipping speed they need to compete with Amazon
xAI told staff to stop mingling with Cursor employees, weeks after they started working together
Ferrari stock drops 7% after Luce EV reveal as investors question design and strategy
Spotify tests narrated magazine articles inside the audiobook tier
Wall Street is paying $25,000 a day for AI trainers who used to work there
Honeywell’s Quantinuum settles on $12.7bn IPO target after $20bn whisper
Pope Leo’s first encyclical reads as tech regulation as much as theology
BNP Paribas works with Mistral on a European answer to Anthropic’s Mythos
SpaceX wants the Pentagon to pay five times more for Starlink in the Iran war
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SPARQ opens $8.5M seed round for AI-native game engine, with a16z’s scout fund on the cap table
Avrea raises $4.7M to fix CI/CD before AI coding breaks it
Finland’s Quanscient raises €10M to build a quantum- and AI-native simulation platform
Uber goes after Delivery Hero in full, with an offer that sits below the close
India’s SolarSquare is raising $60M at a $500M valuation. It has powered 50,000 homes.
Former Citadel quants raised $78M for the AI operating system Wall Street’s wealth managers didn’t have
SpaceX launched Starship V3 three weeks before its IPO. The booster exploded.
London’s Fresha hits unicorn status with KKR-led $80M raise
NVIDIA’s NVentures adds Alice & Bob to its quantum portfolio
Intel is bringing a chip to every computing category at Computex. The last time it could do that, it was the company everyone was trying to catch.
Meta missed mobile. It is building the operating system for humanoids
Nebius paid $643 million for 20 people because inference is where the money is
