Tesla has begun volume production of the Semi at Gigafactory Nevada with first deliveries this week, nine years after showing the truck, and rates it at 500 miles of range and 1.2 megawatts of charging. It has already installed more than 100 megawatt-capable stalls at 21 European sites, although the truck is not due in […]

As organizations become increasingly dependent on interconnected digital systems, the boundaries between communications, computing infrastructure, virtualization, software development, and artificial intelligence are becoming less distinct. For smaller technology firms, that environment can create an unusual challenge: customers may need expertise across several technical layers at once, while the systems themselves continue to become more specialized. […]

Bill Gates said artificial intelligence is powerful enough to drive events causing a billion deaths, and that self-regulation is not enough because safeguards and monitoring have to be a required thing. The European Union has required them since August 2025, and since 2 August this year the Commission has been able to fine a model […]

Peter Thiel has called Pope Leo XIV a “useful idiot” for the Chinese Communist Party over the pope’s call to regulate AI. The PayPal and Palantir co-founder spoke to Axel Springer chief executive Mathias Döpfner on the MD Meets podcast, released on Thursday. The interview came before Thiel received the Axel Springer Award in Berlin […]

The Pentagon wants $30.3m over five years to build an AI lie detector that reads the body without touching it. The programme, called Polygraph+ or Polygraph Next, appears in the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency’s 2027 budget request. Inside Defense first reported the plan. MIT Technology Review’s Amit Katwala asked experts whether it could work. […]

Nscale has closed a $3.36B pre-IPO convertible note round led by Third Point, with Nvidia, Apollo, Citadel and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council among the investors, three weeks after it was reported to be seeking up to $3.5B. The London company filed to list on the New York Stock Exchange last week under the ticker […]

A US appeals court has upheld the Pentagon’s decision to label Anthropic a supply chain risk. The label bars the military and its contractors from using Anthropic’s Claude models. In a 2-1 ruling on Friday, the DC Circuit court of appeals denied Anthropic’s petitions to overturn the designation. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas wrote the opinion, […]

Battery electric cars took 29% of new car sales in Europe in August, and across the European Union for the first eight months of the year they reached 21.7% of registrations, exactly level with petrol. Hybrids remain the largest single category on 36.6%, and the spread between Norway at 98% and Croatia at 4% is […]

Anthropic wants its seven co-founders to keep control of the company after it goes public. The company is asking shareholders to approve a special class of shares for them, The Information reported on Thursday. Chief executive Dario Amodei and his six co-founders would hold a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters. The […]

Qualcomm wants earbuds and glasses, not phone screens, to be the way people talk to AI agents. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui, it launched Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, its first audio chip built for AI agents, and new platforms for smart glasses. Ziad Asghar, who runs Qualcomm’s XR, wearables and personal AI business, […]

Qualcomm has split its flagship phone chip in two. At its Snapdragon Summit in Maui on Tuesday, it launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, both built on a 2nm process. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. makes the chips, CNBC’s Kif Leswing reported. Gizmodo’s Kyle Barr ran benchmarks […]

Qualcomm used its Snapdragon Summit in Maui this week to pitch its chips as the hardware for AI agents. In three days, it launched two flagship phone chips and a chip for AI earbuds and glasses. It also brought Linux to its X2 laptop processors. Chief executive Cristiano Amon opened the summit on Tuesday, CNBC’s […]

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Pope Leo XIV arrived at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters on Friday with a question he said no culture can take for granted, not even in the 21st century: what does it mean to be human? The address was the centrepiece of a day UNESCO had dedicated to artificial intelligence, information integrity, education, and artistic creation. A few hours […]

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? Notable and big funding rounds

?? TEKEVER raises $580M Series D at $6.4B valuation

?? Bird raises $450M in debt, headcount cut from 1,000 peak to 120

?? Verda raises $189M to advance its AI cloud and expand compute capacity

??‍?? Noteworthy acquisitions and mergers

?? Munich-based agri-PV startup feld.energy is acquiring its Cologne-based competitor AckerKapital

??  EYSA acquires Joinup and strengthens its position as a comprehensive mobility operator

?? Mistral AI acquires Pimento and continues its move towards business applications

? Interesting moves from investors

? DTCP closes €455M defence fund to scale Europe’s strategic tech capabilities

? Final Frontier and Myriad unite behind €100M defence tech fund

? NewSchool VC closes €10M Fund I to back early-stage B2B tech

?.Project Ventures launches £5M fund for Imperial-rooted deeptech and AI startups

?️ In other (important) news

?? Singapore's NUSX is coming for Munich's deeptech crown — with UnternehmerTUM as its partner

??  SPRIND and NADI launch €40M challenge to reinvent European chip design

?? Switzerland's top-funded tech companies in H1 2026

?? Estonian Defence Forces sign three-year defence tech partnership with VC Archangel

? Recommended reads and listens

?? Eevi raises pre-seed funding to get language learners speaking from day one

? Adlyse wants AI agents managing ad campaigns 24/7

? DiffuseDrive is filling the data gaps holding back Physical AI

? Europeans in Japan raise $1.2M to put modular humanoid robots to work

? European tech startups to watch 

?? Palma.ai raises $1.8M to bring governed AI agents to more enterprises

?? Duqu raises €1.5M to give businesses faster access to working capital

?? Gamindo raises €1.4M to make corporate training more interactive

?? AI platform Reply Next secures €400,000 pre-seed funding

Palo Alto Networks chief executive Nikesh Arora says it is “unrealistic” to slow down AI development, because “not everybody is going to pace themselves”. He made the comments on CNBC’s “The Tech Download” podcast, recorded on Tuesday, CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal reported. Arora also told CNBC it was “highly unlikely” that AI has a 10% chance […]

Crypto exchange Bitget says hackers took about $351.6m from its hot and warm wallets on Thursday. It suspects North Korea. The company said on X that its systems spotted unauthorised transfers at 18:31 UTC. It has suspended withdrawals. Chief executive Gracy Chen later spoke in a livestream on X. Investigators had traced IP addresses to […]

Microsoft has launched a new version of its Copilot app that puts AI chat, coding and long-running agents in one place for work. Jared Spataro, its chief marketing officer for AI at Work, announced it in a blog post on Friday. Chief executive Satya Nadella first promised a Copilot super app at the Build conference […]