Tesla put self-published safety statistics in front of regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands that independent traffic-safety researchers say amount to misleading marketing, according to a Reuters review of correspondence obtained through public-reco…
France took over the G7 this week with Emmanuel Macron pressing artificial intelligence to the front of the agenda and, with it, a good deal of his own standing. The summit runs from 15 to 17 June, and the pitch is straightforward: position France as E…
Britain is expected to set out restrictions on how children under 16 use social media, in a package that could ban access to the main platforms and curb features judged too addictive for young users, according to reporting on the government’s plans. Pr…
Baidu’s robotaxis are heading to the Alps. AmiGo, a venture between the Chinese giant’s Apollo Go robotaxi unit and Swiss Post’s PostBus, has won a special permit from Switzerland’s Federal Roads Office for Level 4 autonomous driving, Baidu said. Level…
Thena Capital has closed its first fund at £45m ($60.4m), the London venture firm announced this week, after a £27m first close in March 2025. The fund backs early-stage British medical-technology companies, and it is now fully closed. The milestone is…
Mistral is in funding talks to raise about €3bn ($3.5bn) at a valuation of roughly €20bn, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the discussions. That would nearly double the price investors put on Europe’s leading AI startup just mo…
OpenAI acquires Ona, the company once known as Gitpod, in its latest enterprise play. The deal, announced on Thursday, folds Ona’s secure cloud platform into Codex, OpenAI’s coding agent. Terms were not disclosed. Codex is on a tear. OpenAI says more t…
On 11 June, Pleo told finance teams that AI agents would soon free them from administrative work. The next day came the Pleo layoffs: the Danish spend-management fintech had cut around 50 of its own staff, most of them in engineering and data. The prod…
Infineon Technologies is preparing to open its largest single investment, a €5 billion semiconductor factory on its Dresden campus, on 2 July. The Smart Power Fab, which received approximately €1 billion in EU Chips Act subsidies, will produce power se…
THEKER, the Barcelona-based AI robotics company, has raised €73 million ($85 million) in a Series A to scale its generalist factory robots across industrial production environments. The round was led by CRV, with participation from Samsung, LVMH, Catha…