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Former Meta AI chief Yann LeCun has unveiled Paris-based AMI Labs after raising €890 million to pursue “world models” that he says can outgrow today’s large language models.
UniCredit has launched a voluntary public exchange offer for Commerzbank, seeking to move its holding above 30% and revive merger talks with the German lender.
A reported $10 billion payout tied to the TikTok restructuring is intensifying scrutiny of whether the Trump administration turned a national security standoff into a lucrative political transaction.
A reported $10 billion payout tied to the TikTok restructuring is intensifying scrutiny of whether the Trump administration turned a national security standoff into a lucrative political transaction.
UniCredit has launched a voluntary public exchange offer for Commerzbank, seeking to move its holding above 30% and revive merger talks with the German lender.
Meta is weighing another major round of layoffs as it ramps up expensive AI hiring and infrastructure investments.
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The student-run Start Summit will bring more than 7,000 founders, investors and young talents from over 30 countries to St. Gallen on March 19 and 20 for a program focused on deep tech, European innovation and startup growth.
Germany’s green startup ecosystem is still growing, but the Green Startup Report 2026 says new venture creation has recently lost momentum despite rising demand for climate technologies.
Vienna-based startup Another Earth has secured €3.5 million to expand its AI-driven synthetic earth observation platform and accelerate international growth.
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TechnologyA reported $10 billion payout tied to the TikTok restructuring is intensifying scrutiny of whether the Trump administration turned a national security standoff into a lucrative political transaction.
Adobe will pay a $75 million fine and provide $75 million in free services under a proposed U.S. settlement over allegedly hidden subscription fees and difficult cancellations.
Former Meta AI chief Yann LeCun has unveiled Paris-based AMI Labs after raising €890 million to pursue “world models” that he says can outgrow today’s large language models.
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BusinessUniCredit has launched a voluntary public exchange offer for Commerzbank, seeking to move its holding above 30% and revive merger talks with the German lender.
Meta is weighing another major round of layoffs as it ramps up expensive AI hiring and infrastructure investments.
Deutsche Bahn is said to have posted a €2.3 billion net loss for 2025 after persistent delays in its long-distance business forced a major write-down.
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Microsoft has unveiled Copilot Health, a consumer AI tool that can connect to medical records, lab results and wearable data to answer health questions in a separate Copilot workspace.
Volkswagen and BMW have reported weaker results and warned that tariffs, China and restructuring pressures will keep 2026 challenging.
ByteDance is reportedly building major AI computing capacity in Malaysia with Nvidia’s latest chips as it expands research and customer services outside China.
Anthropic filed suit against the Department of Defense and other federal agencies after the Trump administration labeled the AI company a supply chain risk and ordered agencies to stop using its technology.
At its GTC conference, Nvidia will focus on inference, agentic AI, new server designs and integrating Groq after its $17 billion acquisition to fend off rising competition.
Apple will lower App Store commissions in mainland China to 25% from 30% and reduce small-developer rates, a change estimated to save Chinese developers about 6 billion yuan ($873 million) a year.
Elon Musk says xAI is being rebuilt from the ground up as more co-founders leave and the company scrambles to catch up in AI coding tools and broader agent software.
Oracle is preparing further layoffs after increasing its restructuring budget and telling investors that AI tools are helping smaller teams produce more software.
