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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

IBM India’s Sandip Patel says India can be the world’s AI skill capital by 2030. The arithmetic is harder than the headline number suggests.

EU enterprise AI adoption hit 20% in 2025. The headline obscures a deeper problem, and it is older than the AI Act.

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.

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.

Reallusion launched AI Studio, pairing iClone 3D scene control with ByteDance's top-ranked Seedance 2.0 to give filmmakers precision that text prompts alone cannot deliver.