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The EU's 28th regime for start-ups has stalled in the European Parliament. Unions want stronger worker protections, the EU-INC founders' campaign says the plan is being watered down, and a new committee vote is pencilled in for 5 November.
Google chief Sundar Pichai says Gemini 4 Argon handled almost 25 trillion tokens in 72 hours, three times its predecessor, leaving Google short of compute. He also talked about Waymo and data centres in orbit.
Meta is creating a new class of non-voting stock that Mark Zuckerberg could sell to pay a proposed California wealth tax without losing control. In return he has committed to stay in the state for eight years.
PSV Tech, the early-stage fund born at the Technical University of Denmark, has closed Fund II at €56m. It backs Nordic teams in AI, software and digital infrastructure before they find product-market fit.
President Lee Jae-myung told his cabinet that South Korea needs a single, powerful body to coordinate cyber defence, pointing to the record $6.3bn theft from Binance that US investigators link to North Korea.
ESA director general Josef Aschbacher is meeting officials in Dubai and Abu Dhabi this week. Europe wants to rely less on the US in space, and talks cover a lunar rover launch and an Emirati astronaut.
Elon Musk unveiled a new Tesla Roadster that uses high-pressure air jets to leap, flip and land. Tesla calls it a flying car. Experts and US regulators are far less sure, and production is promised for 2028.
X Money, the payments and deposit service inside X, has been rolling out to US users since July with a Visa debit card and high-yield accounts. Musk now wants a long press on Like to send $1.
Elon Musk confirmed that SpaceX cut Grok Bot usage allowances because serving the AI agent cost too much against the revenue it brings in. Paying users say their weekly limits ran out overnight.
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