BNP Paribas is helping Mistral build a European sovereign answer to Anthropic’s restricted Mythos cybersecurity AI, Bloomberg reports.

UAE-based SPARQ has opened an $8.5M seed round for its AI-native game engine, with the a16z Scout Fund participating early.

Foreign-brand smartphone shipments to China rose 1.8% YoY in April to 3.59m handsets, a sharp slowdown after a Q1 in which iPhones grew above 40%.

Helsinki startup Avrea, founded by Aiven’s Hannu Valtonen and Nosto’s Juha Valvanne, has raised $4.7M led by Earlybird to accelerate CI/CD for AI-heavy engineering teams.

China is extending informal travel restrictions on senior AI researchers from DeepSeek to other private firms, Bloomberg reports, citing state-secret concerns.

Pony AI raised its 2026 robotaxi fleet target to more than 3,500 vehicles after Q1 robotaxi revenues rose 395% year-on-year and the fleet passed 1,700.

Spain has temporarily blocked Polymarket and Kalshi for operating without a gambling licence, joining a widening European crackdown on US prediction markets.

Paris-based preventive-health startup Lucis has raised a $20M Series A led by Singular, four months after its $8.5M seed, to expand into Spain, Germany and Italy.

Samsung’s Donghaeng union has filed an injunction at Suwon District Court to halt a vote that hands chip workers 600m won and others almost nothing.

Ferrari’s first all-electric car, the Luce, lands at €550,000 with 1,036hp, four motors, a 122kWh battery and a cabin co-designed by Jony Ive’s LoveFrom.

The European Commission is preparing the largest fine yet under the Digital Markets Act, targeting Google over self-preferencing in search, Handelsblatt reports.

China launched a national robot ID system that assigns each humanoid a 29-character code tracking it from factory to scrapyard, with 28,000 already registered.