Running out of money is a story as old as startups, and still highly relevant in 2026. According to recent findings of CB Insights, based on an analysis of 431 VC-backed companies that shut down since 2023, “ran out of capital” tops the list at 70%. Y…
Digital transformation minister Óscar López says ‘the profit of four tech companies cannot come at the expense of the rights of millions’ as Madrid’s regulatory package moves through parliament. Spain’s digital transformation minister, Óscar López, sai…
Flyers framing the Model Capability Initiative as an ‘Employee Data Extraction Factory’ appeared in US offices on Tuesday, with a petition and a UK unionisation drive in train By Tuesday afternoon, the flyers were everywhere. Meta employees at several …
A round at the proposed terms would push the Claude maker past OpenAI on paper, less than three months after its last record-setting raise. Anthropic is in early talks to raise at least $30bn in a new financing round at a pre-money valuation above $900…
Europe’s external dependency exposes more than its AI sovereignty. It also affects its data sovereignty and creates political exposure. In a previous article, we discussed how Europe is heavily dependent on external providers for AI development, partic…
Tomoro was created in 2023 in alliance with OpenAI. The Edinburgh and London-based firm built AI concierges for Virgin Atlantic, in-game support agents for Supercell, and deployment systems for Fidelity International, Tesco, Red Bull, Mattel, and the…
Jan Oberhauser started n8n in 2019 as a side project in Berlin because the workflow automation tools he used at work were too expensive and too closed. Seven years later, SAP has embedded his company’s software inside Joule Studio, the agent-building…
Google killed the Chromebook. It took 15 years, but the company that invented the browser-as-operating-system has concluded that a browser is not enough. At the Android Show on Monday, Google unveiled Googlebook, a new category of premium laptops run…
Satya Nadella told a federal jury on Monday that he feared Microsoft would become “the next IBM” while OpenAI became the next Microsoft. The admission, drawn from an April 2022 internal email presented by Elon Musk’s lead attorney, reveals the strate…