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

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.

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.

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.

Windows 11's April 2026 update adds an official uninstall option for Copilot after only 3.3% of eligible users paid for it and administrators demanded removal controls.

At the Vatican launch of Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah argued that AI cannot be steered by frontier labs alone.

Huawei's He Tingbo used an ISCAS keynote in Shanghai to pitch the Tau Scaling Law, a chip-design approach built around signal time rather than transistor size.

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, calls for disarming AI and rules out algorithmic warfare. Anthropic's Chris Olah presented alongside cardinals.

UK companies raised $10.5bn of VC in the first four months of 2026, GlobalData says, but more than 40% came from just three rounds.