EU court frees Meta’s Marketplace from gatekeeper rules but keeps Messenger in
EU court frees Meta’s Marketplace from gatekeeper rules but keeps Messenger in

The General Court annulled the Commission’s designation of Marketplace under the Digital Markets Act, faulting its reasoning, while upholding the same label for Messenger. Meta walked into the EU’s General Court asking it to strike down two gatekeeper …

UK committee urges break clause on Palantir’s £330M NHS data contract
UK committee urges break clause on Palantir’s £330M NHS data contract

A UK parliamentary committee has called Palantir’s role in the public sector an “unacceptable point of weakness” and urged the government to break its NHS contract with the American company. The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee singled out …

Poland will introduce a “sovereignty test” for government tech purchases as Tusk warns AI dependency has reached dangerous proportions
Poland will introduce a “sovereignty test” for government tech purchases as Tusk warns AI dependency has reached dangerous proportions

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced that Poland will introduce a “sovereignty test” for significant government purchases of technology solutions, warning that the country’s dependency on foreign digital infrastructure has reached a scale th…

The EU’s €20 billion plan for five AI gigafactories is falling apart before the first bid is even submitted
The EU’s €20 billion plan for five AI gigafactories is falling apart before the first bid is even submitted

The European Union’s plan to build five massive AI data centres, each with one gigawatt of capacity and approximately 100,000 advanced chips, is stumbling before it starts. The bidding process, originally scheduled for May, has been pushed to July. A l…

A German startup raised $240 million to commercialise the only fusion experiment that has ever produced net energy
A German startup raised $240 million to commercialise the only fusion experiment that has ever produced net energy

Focused Energy, a Germany-based fusion startup, has raised an oversubscribed $240 million Series A round to develop a commercial reactor based on the same approach that produced the world’s first controlled fusion reaction with net energy gain. The rou…

WeRide and Uber take their robotaxi partnership to Madrid
WeRide and Uber take their robotaxi partnership to Madrid

The robotaxi map of Europe has been filling in city by city, and on Tuesday Madrid joined it. WeRide and Uber said they will launch what they call Spain’s first commercial robotaxi pilot in the Region of Madrid, with rides bookable through the Uber app…

Uber picks Munich for its next robotaxi push, with Autobrains and Nvidia
Uber picks Munich for its next robotaxi push, with Autobrains and Nvidia

The ride-hailing company is betting that Germany’s automotive heartland, and a less sensor-heavy approach to autonomy, can finally make robotaxis scale in Europe. Munich is about to become a test of a particular theory: that the cheapest way to put a d…

Anthropic is finally giving the EU access to Mythos, ending weeks of standoff over the world’s most powerful cybersecurity AI
Anthropic is finally giving the EU access to Mythos, ending weeks of standoff over the world’s most powerful cybersecurity AI

Anthropic has agreed to give the European Union’s cybersecurity agency, ENISA, access to Claude Mythos, the AI model that has autonomously discovered more than 10,000 high- and critical-severity zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating sys…

Salesforce is acquiring Contentful to give Agentforce a content layer that can assemble experiences on the fly
Salesforce is acquiring Contentful to give Agentforce a content layer that can assemble experiences on the fly

Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Contentful, the API-first headless content management platform used by more than 4,800 enterprises to deliver digital experiences across web, mobile, and emerging channels. The deal, announced on …

Two days to go: TNW’s Amsterdam gathering on what it takes to win in AI-native SaaS
Two days to go: TNW’s Amsterdam gathering on what it takes to win in AI-native SaaS

If you have been meaning to register for the TNW, Oneflow & Flexas Gathering Amsterdam and have not got round to it, this is the moment. The event takes place on Wednesday 3 June at De Weesper on Weesperstraat, and the guest list is nearly full. Ti…