Tech & AI

India wants to join the strawberry superpowers

Indian strawberry farmers rely on varieties imported from the US and Europe, but that could change.…

LinkedIn’s newest feature: A ‘Seems Like AI Slop’ button

LinkedIn is also removing its ‘enhance with AI’ option for users and replacing it with an option for proofreading that d…

EU opens applications for €10bn AI gigafactory scheme

Xbox tech boss says 'unacceptable' outage should not have affected disc games

The outage meant Xbox users had trouble signing into their accounts, seeing their game library and launching games…

VCs are taking on operator roles. Why?

Pitching investors? Know which side of the Atlantic you’re on

Ask any founder who has been through a fundraising round and they’ll tell you: preparing a pitch deck can feel lik…

London-based Intropy raises €9.5 million to build the AI-native operating system for the spare parts industry

Intropy, a London-based AI-native platform automating inventory, pricing and other critical decisions for spare parts bu…

MariaDB again faces questions over Galera's open source future

Support for the MySQL build ends in September as the company develops separate premium replication technology…

Swiss startup AI Infrastructure Capital AG launches with €16 million to tackle AI compute bottleneck

AI Infrastructure Capital AG, a newly founded Swiss company that buys servers, runs them at sites with renewable power a…

Swedish legal AI unicorn Legora snaps up London-based Wexler in fifth acquisition of 2026

Legora, the Stockholm-based legal AI unicorn, has announced the acquisition of London-based Wexler, a fact intelligence …

Swiss preventive HealthTech Ahead Health bags €8.7 million and launches in Germany and the Netherlands

Ahead Health, a Zurich-based preventive healthcare company, has secured a €8.7 million ($10 million) investment led by v…

Curiosity rover spots field of giant honeycomb on Mars – but no giant space bees

Posisbly cracked mud, therefore more evidence Red Planet was once less horrible…

Adyen is coming for agentic payments. Can startups keep up?

AI startup Corgi to open 24/7 cafe in London

Trump considering AI controls after OpenAI hacking incidents

It marks a change of tone for his administration, which has taken a more hands-off approach to the technology.…

The Chinese robot army transforming the UK's retail industry

Britain's weak productivity growth and labour shortages are creating an opportunity for China's robotics firms.…

Meta shares fall as frustration grows over AI spending plans

Mark Zuckerberg said Meta intends to sell for the first time AI tools to other companies…

10 European SpaceTech startups ready for liftoff

Europe’s SpaceTech sector is reaching new heights, supported by growing public investment and a stronger industrial pres…

Why tomorrow’s nanotechnologies need support today

Nature, Published online: 29 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02179-zThe field seems to be on the cusp of big advances,…

Drivalia secures €48 million EIB financing to boost electric mobility in Italy and Finland

Drivalia, a Rome-based rental and mobility company of the Crédit Agricole Auto Bank (CAAB) group, and the European Inves…

The EU-Startups Podcast | Interview with Tom Wehmeier, Partner and Head of Intelligence at Atomico

In this exclusive interview, we sit down with Tom Wehmeier, Partner and Head of Intelligence at Atomico, to discuss Euro…

Data centres could pay hundreds of millions in deposits for power demands

The regulator said a fee of between £237,500 to £712,500 per megawatt should be charged for upcoming projects.…

Vilnius-based Sigvi raises €1.2 million to scale its AI-powered car rental platform across Europe

Sigvi, a Vilnius-based AI revenue agent for the car rental industry, has raised €1.2 million in pre-seed funding to acce…

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