The Helsinki startup, founded by Aiven’s Hannu Valtonen and Nosto’s Juha Valvanne, is betting that AI-generated code will overwhelm existing build pipelines. Helsinki startup Avrea emerged from stealth on Tuesday with $4.7m in pre-seed funding led by Earlybird, pitching itself as a faster, AI-aware alternative to GitHub Actions for engineering teams that have started generating code faster than […]

A three-to-four month suspension while Madrid’s gambling watchdog investigates makes Spain the latest European jurisdiction to treat prediction markets as unlicensed betting. Spain has temporarily blocked the US-based prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi for operating in the country without a gambling licence, according to an order published in the Spanish state gazette on Tuesday by […]

Paris-based Lucis, a preventive-health platform that pairs blood biomarker testing with an AI-driven companion app, has raised a $20m Series A led by Singular, with participation from General Catalyst, Y Combinator and angel investors including Céline Lazorthes of Resilience, Manu Lecomte, and backers of the running-coach app Runna. The round arrives four months after the company’s $8.5m seed in […]

SR Ventures Management Co., one of the earliest backers of the Chinese social commerce app Xiaohongshu, is raising about $350m for a new China-focused venture fund and is using its existing stake in the app, known internationally as RedNote, as the central pitch, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday citing people familiar with the […]

The OpenAI chief, speaking in the Asia-Pacific, walked back the more dramatic predictions of broad employment collapse. The data, so far, agrees with him. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday that artificial intelligence was unlikely to trigger the broad employment collapse that has come to be known, in the industry’s own shorthand, as […]

The Tampere startup wants to rebuild physics simulation as the data engine for AI-driven hardware design. Tampere-based Quanscient has closed a €10 million Series A to scale its cloud-based multiphysics simulation platform, in a round led by Danish quantum fund 55 North and Austrian industrial investor B&C Group, with full re-participation from existing backers Maki.vc, Crowberry Capital, QAI Ventures, […]

A smaller Samsung Electronics union representing roughly 13,000 workers in the company’s smartphones, televisions and home appliances divisions has filed an injunction at South Korea’s Suwon District Court to halt an ongoing companywide vote on a bonus deal that would deliver a windfall to memory chip workers and almost nothing to everyone else. The injunction […]

The Maranello firm’s first all-electric model starts at €550,000, runs to more than 1,000 horsepower and arrives with deliveries in the fourth quarter. Ferrari pulled the covers off its first all-electric road car on Monday: the Luce, a four-door, five-seat liftback developed in collaboration with Jony Ive’s LoveFrom collective, priced from €550,000 in Italy and […]

The European Commission is preparing to fine Google a sum running into the high hundreds of millions of euros for breaching the Digital Markets Act, according to a Handelsblatt report on Monday, in what would be the largest penalty ever issued under the bloc’s new tech competition regime. The Commission’s case rests on the long-running complaint that […]

Microsoft has added the ability to fully remove the Copilot app from Windows 11. The change arrived in the April 2026 update and applies to both enterprise administrators using Group Policy and regular users who can now uninstall it through Settings like any other app. For IT administrators, the new policy is called “Remove Microsoft […]