Brussels moves to put AWS and Azure under its toughest tech rules
Brussels moves to put AWS and Azure under its toughest tech rules

The European Commission told Amazon and Microsoft that it takes the preliminary view that their cloud arms, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act. The wording matters more than it loo…

The EU signs up to Pax Silica, the US-led chip pact France called colonisation
The EU signs up to Pax Silica, the US-led chip pact France called colonisation

Brussels is joining a Washington-led effort to secure AI chip supply chains, a fortnight after unveiling a tech-sovereignty agenda built on the opposite instinct. The European Union is set to join Pax Silica, the US-led initiative to coordinate AI chip…

Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness
Actress Cate Blanchett launches a free registry tool to keep AI from using your likeness

The actor and MEP Eva Maydell revealed RSL Media’s Human Consent Registry at the European Parliament, a tool that lets anyone set the terms on which AI can use their name, face and voice. The context is disarmingly simple: your face, your voice, your n…

Tissium raises €60M to take its sutureless nerve glue to the US
Tissium raises €60M to take its sutureless nerve glue to the US

Tissium has raised €60M to carry the world’s only FDA-cleared sutureless nerve repair system into US operating rooms. The Paris medtech wants to swap the surgeon’s needle for a dab of light-cured glue. For a severed nerve, the standard repair has barel…

Main Capital raised the Netherlands’ biggest-ever fund on boring software
Main Capital raised the Netherlands’ biggest-ever fund on boring software

While public markets panic that AI will gut enterprise software, a quiet Dutch firm just raised €5.25bn on the opposite bet. Main Capital’s pitch: boring, essential software is exactly where the next decade of value sits. Charly Zwemstra has spent 23 y…

EU moves to turn Europol into an operational police force as digital crime climbs
EU moves to turn Europol into an operational police force as digital crime climbs

Brussels wants to double the agency’s staff and widen its data powers. Rights groups say it has written the surveillance before drawing the safeguards. The European Commission moved to give Europol a markedly bigger job. In a proposal set out as part o…

The Brexit bill comes due: ten years, seven prime ministers, and an economy 6% smaller than it should be
The Brexit bill comes due: ten years, seven prime ministers, and an economy 6% smaller than it should be

Ten years ago today, 52% of the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. The decade that followed delivered seven prime ministers, a permanently weakened currency, and an economy that a landmark study now estimates is between 6% and 8% sma…

Ferrari replaces marketing chief after Luce EV launch backlash
Ferrari replaces marketing chief after Luce EV launch backlash

Ferrari has replaced its long-serving chief marketing and commercial officer, Enrico Galliera, just weeks after the rocky debut of the Luce, the automaker’s first electric car.
The company named former BMW Italy boss Massimiliano Di Silvestre as Gallie…

Europe’s biggest tech CEOs have formed a standing lobby group with a direct line to von der Leyen
Europe’s biggest tech CEOs have formed a standing lobby group with a direct line to von der Leyen

Seven of Europe’s largest technology companies have created a permanent dialogue with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, pressing the bloc to deregulate faster and let European firms consolidate. The group, which calls itself the Europ…

EU escalates its Meta probe over addictive design for kids
EU escalates its Meta probe over addictive design for kids

The European Commission is preparing preliminary findings that accuse Facebook and Instagram of exploitative design that hooks children. The Meta addictive design probe could end in a fine worth up to 6% of global sales. Brussels is about to turn up th…