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Vibe-coding darling Lovable just raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in eight months. But Lovable isn’t the only Stockholm startup putting up huge numbers lately — legal AI company Legora and health tech startup Neko Health are right there with it. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Dominic-Madori Davis is joined by Sophia Bendz, a partner at Cherry Ventures and longtime fixture of Europe’s startup […]

Romania blew up drone boat to protect lives of several hundred rig workers.

It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.

This follows many drone incursions into Romania and a failed attack in Germany.

Scaleup Europe, a public-private fund with a $5.7 billion target, made its first investment by backing Finnish satellite company ICEYE.

A device currently being used to help octogenarians do self-administered eye exams could be part of future space missions to monitor astronauts’ ocular health.

Copernicus Browser adds wildfire visualization amid record wildfire season.

Open-weight AI models are having a moment in the wake of recent turmoil at US tech giants. For French AI lab Mistral, that’s the the best thing that could have happened.

New EU rules stipulate that people must be told when they’re interacting with AI or looking at AI-generated or -edited content, leading to fear of “disclosure fatigue.”

Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the continent but to stay alive for longer. Scientists suggest we get used to it.

On Monday, the network announced a $1.6 million seed round from top players in the media ecosystem, including Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE (which owns Business Insider and Politico), the popular media publication LadBible, and angel investors from OpenAI and DeepMind. With this fresh capital, the network is announcing its largest expansion yet.

The European Commission claims that Google boosted its own apps and products to the top of search rankings to the detriment of its competitors.

Google becomes third tech giant to face huge fines under the Digital Markets Act.

Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.

The AC culture wars may be solved by advances in environmentally friendly technology.

It's too hot. There, we said it. Protect your health and keep your home cool with one of these top-rated air conditioners.

As extreme heat becomes the norm on the continent, the AC culture wars may be solved by advances in environmentally friendly technology.

Like its U.S. counterpart, the European Chips Act aims to foster the semiconductor industry — in part thanks to state subsidies. One of the beneficiaries is QuantumDiamonds, a German startup that applies a novel approach to inspecting chips.

The EU went after Google for the practice of bundling its search engine and browser with Android.

The EU wants Google to share search data with competitors and open up AI on Android, but Google alleges major privacy risks.