Aidoptation can now test a fully self-driving car at highway speed on Belgian public roads. It is the first Level 4 permit of its kind in the European Union. The company announced the approval, which covers 100 km of the E313 and E314 motorways in Limb…
John Deere owners can finally fix their own machines. The US Federal Trade Commission and five states have reached a settlement with the tractor giant that forces it to share the software and tools needed for repairs, the Associated Press reported. It …
The pitch for enterprise AI usually starts with the model. Mark Hura, Oracle‘s president of global field operations, wants to flip that. He spoke on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris. The companies winning with AI, he argued, are not shopping for an A…
Oxylabs has raised $130M from private equity firm Warburg Pincus. It is the company’s first outside investment since it launched in 2015. The deal values the Vilnius-based data infrastructure firm at around $3.6bn. Oxylabs announced the raise on Thursd…
French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu has announced a bill to sharply increase penalties for spreading false content during elections. He set out the plan in the Senate on 8 July, according to Public Sénat, in response to a question about AI in the c…
A new wave of mandatory safety technology took effect for cars and vans across the EU on 7 July. Every newly manufactured passenger car and van must now carry advanced driver aids, the European Commission has confirmed. The headline additions are an ad…
A serve flashes on the Wimbledon scoreboard before the ball stops bouncing. That number comes from a partnership older than most players on court. IBM has been Wimbledon’s technology partner for 36 years, since it planted serve-speed radar behind the b…
Europe’s drive for sovereign AI has rarely looked more urgent, yet the infrastructure meant to carry it may not be ready. As Washington tightens access to its most capable models and Brussels leans harder into the case for European AI sovereignty, a ne…
A busy 24 hours for AI and deep-tech money, from a $300m quantum bet to Paris voice AI and Europe’s energy startups. Here are the rounds worth knowing. The cash keeps flowing into AI and deep tech. The past day alone brought a $300m quantum raise, a fr…
A Polish billionaire has laid out plans to build a fleet of small nuclear reactors across Britain, at an estimated £35bn, TechRadar reported. Michał Sołowow’s firm, SGE, says it wants to install 14 GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 reactors on three UK sites…