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EU Lawmakers Reinstate Controversial ‘Chat Control’ Surveillance Bill Through April 2028
The European Parliament has voted to revive “Chat Control 1.0,” a highly controversial legislative proposal that allows tech…
Swedish Credit Giant Intrum Marks Return to Europe’s High-Yield Bond Market After Balance Sheet Overhaul
Swedish debt collection agency Intrum AB has officially marked its return to the European high yield bond market,…
Nigerian Fintech LemFi Acquires UK Investment Platform to Expand Into Wealth Management
Nigerian-founded fintech LemFi is expanding beyond cross-border payments after acquiring UK-based investment platform Wealth8, marking its entry into…
Idris Elba and Google Partner to Empower 100,000 African Creators with AI Tool
Tech giant Alphabet’s Google and British actor and entrepreneur Idris Elba have announced a major joint initiative to…
UK Set to Ban Social Media for Under-16s
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is about to announce a ban on social media usage for children under…
Mistral AI Eyes Massive €20B Valuation in Early €3B Funding Talks
French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is in early stage talks to raise approximately €3 billion (around $3.5…
Theker Raises $85M as the Race for General-Purpose Factory Robots Begins
Theker, a robotics startup building AI-powered industrial machines that are not limited to a single task, has raised…
U.K. orders Google to let publishers opt out of AI scraping
For more than two decades, the internet operated on a simple exchange: publishers allowed search engines to crawl…
Sweden Barred Under-15 Citizens from Social Media.
Sweden is moving decisively toward shielding its youth from the digital world, becoming the latest nation to propose…
Pope Leo XIV Warns the World to “Disarm AI”, Asks Forgiveness for Church’s Role in Slavery.
For years, the global conversation around artificial intelligence has mostly focused on productivity, chatbots, and the race to…