Baidu Apollo Go wins Level 4 robotaxi approval in Switzerland as AmiGo
Baidu Apollo Go wins Level 4 robotaxi approval in Switzerland as AmiGo

Baidu’s Apollo Go has received a Level 4 autonomous driving permit in Switzerland for AmiGo, a robotaxi service it is running with Swiss Post’s PostBus, putting the Chinese tech giant ahead of Waymo and Tesla in deploying driverless vehicles into Europ…

France’s intelligence service is dropping Palantir for a homegrown rival
France’s intelligence service is dropping Palantir for a homegrown rival

France’s domestic intelligence agency is dropping Palantir. The DGSI will replace the American firm’s data-analysis tools with software from ChapsVision, a French company, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Tuesday, framing the switch as part of …

As Europe rearms, the ‘wingman’ drone takes centre stage at the Berlin airshow
As Europe rearms, the ‘wingman’ drone takes centre stage at the Berlin airshow

The aircraft drawing crowds at last week’s Berlin airshow was not the one with a pilot in it. The “loyal wingman,” an uncrewed jet built to fly beside a manned fighter and carry the extra sensors, jammers, and weapons the fighter cannot, has become Eur…

France to spend €655m on AI and a single chatbot for the whole civil service
France to spend €655m on AI and a single chatbot for the whole civil service

France wants its civil servants to share a chatbot. On Monday, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced an additional €655m for artificial intelligence, the headline use of which is a single sovereign conversational assistant intended for every publi…

Ukraine gains access to EU emergency cyber response for major attacks
Ukraine gains access to EU emergency cyber response for major attacks

Ukraine can now draw on emergency European Union cyber support to respond to large-scale incidents, after the Council of the EU approved its inclusion in the EU Cybersecurity Reserve on 15 June. The decision extends a defensive mechanism built for memb…

Italy’s antitrust regulator opens a probe into Apple’s cloud services
Italy’s antitrust regulator opens a probe into Apple’s cloud services

Italy’s competition authority has opened an investigation into Apple over its cloud services, examined under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act. The move places Apple’s cloud business under a regulator that has already become one of the company’s…

Rocapine raises $13m to build wellness apps that hold instead of hook
Rocapine raises $13m to build wellness apps that hold instead of hook

Rocapine, a Paris venture studio building wellness apps, has raised a $13m Series A led by Educapital, the company said. The pitch is a neat inversion: take the playbook that made mobile gaming addictive, fast iteration, AI-native development, performa…

Monday.com launches Monday Ventures, a $200m fund for workplace-AI startups
Monday.com launches Monday Ventures, a $200m fund for workplace-AI startups

Monday.com is becoming an investor. The Israeli work-management company has launched Monday Ventures, a corporate fund that will put up to $200m into startups building the next generation of workplace AI, according to a report in the Israeli business d…

American Express acquires TheFork for $700m to build out its dining empire
American Express acquires TheFork for $700m to build out its dining empire

American Express acquires TheFork, the European restaurant-reservation platform, from Tripadvisor for $700m in cash. The payments company announced the proposed deal on Monday, adding a booking network of more than 50,000 restaurants across 11 European…

Tesla presented misleading ‘Full Self-Driving’ safety data to European regulators
Tesla presented misleading ‘Full Self-Driving’ safety data to European regulators

Tesla presented self-published and inflated “Full Self-Driving” safety statistics directly to government regulators in Sweden and the Netherlands as it lobbied for European approval, according to correspondence obtained by Reuters through public record…