Dutch Uptmz acquired by Aizy to build one AI ad platform across Google, Microsoft and Meta
An Indian court says Google can be liable for selling rivals a brand’s name
A Danish pension fund has blacklisted SpaceX, calling it grossly overvalued with catastrophic governance
Norway’s $2.3tn fund backs a human-rights review at Palantir
ChargePoint partners with Powers Parts to fix the charging and support gap hitting electric transit fleets
CoStar is paying $800 million for Zonda to close the last gap in its real estate data empire
Samsung and LG Uplus want to turn cell towers into radar for 6G
Intel and 3DGS back a $3.3bn glass-substrate plant in India’s Odisha
Australia’s workplace tribunal says AI-assisted claims have helped drive a 70% workload increase in three years
Autodesk buys MaintainX for $3.6bn to push from design into operations
Picogrid raises $45M to become the neutral integration layer for modern defence
OpenAI gives Japan’s megabanks its newest model for cyber defence
Fonoa raises $110M and buys PwC’s tax software to build a real-time compliance platform
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Getting to the heart of the European tech and startup scene.
Orbital Industries raises $50M Series B for AI-designed data-centre hardware
France’s startup scene is falling behind the US and Europe, and AI is both the cause and the cure
AtlasEdge raises $1.2bn in debt to scale its European data-centre footprint
Cognition just raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, and 90% of its own code is written by its AI
Capchase raises $200 million to replace the banks slowing down enterprise tech deals
Airis Labs comes out of stealth with $60M and a video-intelligence pitch to defence agencies
Female-founded climate-tech Mykor lands €4.6M to scale mycelium insulation panels
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
