The UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation has fined Apple Distribution International, Apple’s Ireland-based subsidiary, £390,000 for making two payments totalling more than £635,000 to a sanctioned Russian entity through the App…
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Judge throws out Musk’s advertising boycott lawsuit against X’s former sponsors
A US federal judge has dismissed Elon Musk’s antitrust lawsuit against advertisers who pulled their spending from X, ruling that the company failed to state a valid legal claim and barring it…
Starcloud raises $170M at a $1.1B valuation to build data centres in orbit
The Redmond, Washington startup, which already has an Nvidia H100 GPU operating in orbit and has trained the first AI model in space, is now building a Starship-class spacecraft designed to be…
Swiss startup miros raises €1.1M for bookable workpods
The Lausanne startup, spun out of EPFL’s robotics lab, has deployed 15 pods across Switzerland and made its first international move with a unit in Toulouse. Its founder’s longer-term ambition: making commercial…
The largest AI survey ever reveals what humans actually want
Anthropic’s massive AI interview study isn’t really about technology. It’s the largest mirror ever held up to human desire. In December 2025, a software engineer in Mexico finished his workday early enough…
TerraSpark raises €5M+ to beam solar power from orbit to Earth
The Luxembourg startup is taking a deliberately earth-first approach: proving radio-frequency wireless power transmission on the ground before scaling to orbit. Its CTO ran ESA’s Solaris SBSP initiative until the agency paused…
Bluesky’s new Attie app uses AI to give you full control over your social feed
The standalone app, built on the AT Protocol and powered by Anthropic’s Claude, was unveiled at the ATmosphere conference by Jay Graber, who stepped back from Bluesky’s CEO role specifically to build…
Finnish quantum unicorn IQM lands €50M from BlackRock
The Helsinki-based company, which builds and sells full-stack superconducting quantum computers for on-premises deployment, disclosed the financing today. It was secured before the February announcement of IQM’s SPAC merger with Real Asset…
Mistral secures $830M from seven banks to build its own AI data centre
The French AI company has secured the financing from a seven-bank consortium including BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, HSBC, and MUFG. The data centre at Bruyères-le-Châtel is expected to be operational in…
Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (23–29 March)
A week that spanned semiconductor physics, orbital logistics, defence interceptors, and carob-based chocolate tells you something about the breadth of European and European adjacent capital right now. The dominant thread is not…