EU broadcasters urge tighter rules on Big Tech’s control for Smart TV
EU broadcasters urge tighter rules on Big Tech’s control for Smart TV

The Association of Commercial Television and Video on Demand Services in Europe  (ACT) released a statement on Monday, urging the European Commission to designate smart TV operating systems and virtual assistant platforms as ‘gatekeepers’ under the EU’…

IBM Cloud, Nutanix, SUSE, and OVHcloud have all independently chosen Traefik as their Ingress NGINX replacement
IBM Cloud, Nutanix, SUSE, and OVHcloud have all independently chosen Traefik as their Ingress NGINX replacement

The Kubernetes community retired Ingress NGINX this month after years of under-resourcing. The migration scramble it triggered is now consolidating around one open source beneficiary, and Traefik Labs announced that convergence at KubeCon today. For ye…

Credo Ventures closes $88M fifth fund to stay the first cheque for CEE’s most ambitious founders
Credo Ventures closes $88M fifth fund to stay the first cheque for CEE’s most ambitious founders

The Prague and Krakow firm, whose earliest bets include UiPath and ElevenLabs, is doubling down on pre-seed in Central and Eastern Europe and its global diaspora, with a six-partner team and a $1–5M typical cheque. Credo Ventures has closed Credo Stage…

OpenAI is in talks to buy fusion energy from Helion
OpenAI is in talks to buy fusion energy from Helion

Axios reports that OpenAI could secure 5 gigawatts of electricity from Helion Energy by 2030, scaling to 50 gigawatts by 2035. Altman has stepped down as Helion’s board chair and recused himself from the deal talks, an echo of the same move he made at …

Idomoo launches Strata – the first AI foundation model for layered video
Idomoo launches Strata – the first AI foundation model for layered video

The Israeli video personalisation company is launching Strata, a foundation model it says produces separate, editable layers for text, animation, footage, and actors rather than a single flat file. It’s a direct challenge to the architectural limits of…

Air defence startup Egide raises €8M seed to take on Europe’s sky protection gap
Air defence startup Egide raises €8M seed to take on Europe’s sky protection gap

A new entrant into the crowded but urgent European air defence startup space has closed its first significant round, as capital chases the continent’s most pressing military capability shortfall. The phrase ‘air defence gap’ has become one of the defin…

360 Capital raises €85M for deeptech fund backed by European defence prime
360 Capital raises €85M for deeptech fund backed by European defence prime

The Paris-Milan VC’s new vehicle is the latest sign that European investors are hardwiring defence into their deeptech strategy. There is a version of this story that could have been told three years ago and would have raised eyebrows in polite Europea…

Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (16 -22 March)
Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (16 -22 March)

A quieter week by headline standards, but one that reveals a great deal about where European venture capital is quietly concentrating: AI agents for physical industries, agritech automation, and the growing operator-to-VC pipeline. What the week of 16-…

The dummy server and the chip war
The dummy server and the chip war

The indictment of Super Micro’s co-founder exposes not just a $2.5 billion scheme, it exposes a system that was never built to stop one. Somewhere in a rented warehouse in Southeast Asia, a man was using a hair dryer on a server box. Not to dry it. To …

WordPress.com lets AI agents write, publish, and manage your site
WordPress.com lets AI agents write, publish, and manage your site

Automattic has added write capabilities to WordPress.com’s MCP integration, giving AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT the ability to create posts, build pages, manage comments, and restructure content, all through natural conversation, with human approv…