Ex-DeepMind researcher Thore Graepel launches London AI lab Metis Reasoning
Ex-DeepMind researcher Thore Graepel launches London AI lab Metis Reasoning

Thore Graepel, who helped build Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, has launched Metis Reasoning in London. The company’s founding claim is that large language models cannot be trusted to reason. Its founders want to apply the lessons of AlphaGo to general reas…

Blackwall quadruples its valuation to $2.2bn as bots take over the web
Blackwall quadruples its valuation to $2.2bn as bots take over the web

“Blackwall has built something rare: a security company that grows with the internet itself,” said Warda Shaheen, a general partner at AVP. “It is already the layer in front of millions of websites, and as more of the web’s traffic comes from agents, t…

Microsoft adds EU access oversight and offline AI to its sovereign cloud
Microsoft adds EU access oversight and offline AI to its sovereign cloud

Microsoft is adding new controls to its sovereign cloud for governments and regulated companies, the CEO Satya Nadella announced today. The changes give customers more say over who can reach their systems, and let them run more AI tools on their own ha…

Amazon plans to make a €16bn investment in Germany in 2027
Amazon plans to make a €16bn investment in Germany in 2027

Amazon plans to invest more than €16 billion ($18 billion) in Germany in 2027, expanding its cloud computing, AI, logistics, satellite internet, and TV production businesses. The company announced the investment today at the Invest in Germany Summit in…

Germany signs AI partnership with Nvidia at Berlin investment summit
Germany signs AI partnership with Nvidia at Berlin investment summit

At the Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin, the German government entered into an agreement with Nvidia on Monday, when Chancellor Friedrich Merz opened the two-day event by addressing Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO. The economy ministry has entered into a …

Four European carriers to explore a joint bid for satellite spectrum
Four European carriers to explore a joint bid for satellite spectrum

Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone have signed a letter of intent to explore a joint bid for satellite spectrum in Europe. The four companies announced it on Monday in a joint release. The spectrum is for mobile satellite services (MSS),…

Norway’s Bulk reportedly seeks Canadian owner for cable bypassing US
Norway’s Bulk reportedly seeks Canadian owner for cable bypassing US

Norway’s Bulk Infrastructure Group wants a Canadian partner to own most of a planned subsea cable between Europe and Canada. The cable would avoid the US. Bulk’s founder, Peder Nærbø, set out the plan to Bloomberg on Monday. Much of Canada’s data and v…

Ericsson’s organic sales rise 7% as it merges its two Asian units
Ericsson’s organic sales rise 7% as it merges its two Asian units

Ericsson’s adjusted earnings before interest, taxes and amortisation (EBITA) came in at SEK 10.1bn ($1bn) in the third quarter. Analysts had expected SEK 7.93bn on average, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The shares rose as much as 11% in Stoc…

EU cloud sovereignty law could cost Europe €115bn, US tech lobby study says
EU cloud sovereignty law could cost Europe €115bn, US tech lobby study says

The EU’s proposed cloud sovereignty law, the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA), could cost Europe €115bn over ten years. That is the central estimate in a study by the Brussels think tank ECIPE. CCIA Europe, a lobby group whose members include Amazon…

OpenAI’s London staff averaged £2.3m each in 2025, Guardian reports
OpenAI’s London staff averaged £2.3m each in 2025, Guardian reports

OpenAI’s 110 staff in London received an average of about £2.3m each in 2025, counting salaries and shares. The figures come from the accounts of OpenAI UK Ltd, as Robert Booth reported for The Guardian. The staff shared £87m in salaries and £168m in s…