CATL has signed a memorandum of understanding with Dutch energy company Alfen to deploy 5 GWh of its Tener Sodium energy storage systems across Europe, one of the largest sodium-ion commitments the region has seen.
The batteries are rated for 15,000 cy…
The firms powering the AI boom now want a piece of the mobile network. Nokia says it has built the industry’s first commercial AI-RAN platform, together with Nvidia, calling it the biggest shift in radio in decades. RAN stands for radio access network,…
Hans Kluge opened his speech in Lisbon with a number, which is not how the World Health Organization usually does this. “Let me start with a number: 8%,” the WHO Regional Director for Europe told delegates on 15 July. “That’s the share of countries in …
European companies are heading into their strongest quarterly earnings season in more than three years, and almost none of it is about AI. STOXX 600 constituents are forecast to grow second-quarter profits by 15.3% year on year, according to LSEG I/B/E…
Bliq.ai has won approval to run driverless cars in Finland, its second EU market after Estonia. First stop is a Helsinki winter. Europe has another driverless car heading for its roads. Finland has cleared Bliq.ai to operate its Bliq Driverless vehicle…
Neko Health, the body-scanning startup from Spotify’s Daniel Ek, has raised $700m and is now worth about $7bn. It is heading to New York, backed by Mark Zuckerberg, Maria Sharapova, and will.i.am. “We’ve gone into markets where health care is free, and…
Reflection AI has locked in more computing power. The US startup signed an AI compute deal worth more than $1bn with Nebius, the Amsterdam-based cloud provider, according to Bloomberg. The agreement runs through 2029. It gives Reflection access to Nvid…
The UK government has proposed a midnight social media curfew for 16 and 17-year-olds, plus limits on infinite scrolling. The UK social media curfew would switch on by default, though teens could turn it off. The government set out the measures on Wedn…
London fintech Velocity has raised a $38 million Series A to help businesses move money with stablecoins. The Velocity Series A, led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, brings the two-year-old company’s total funding to nearly $50 million. Velocity builds trea…
The European Commission has exempted wearable technology from rules requiring batteries that users can remove and replace. The change clears the biggest obstacle to Meta’s latest smart glasses reaching the EU, Politico reports. The delegated act, adopt…