European tech startups raised €15.8 billion in September, a nearly fivefold increase from August, according to Tech.eu. However, the sector now faces intensified scrutiny on payments, AI liability, and labor laws as regulators close loopholes.
Spotify launched a dedicated technology portal on 8 October to sell its internal development tools to other companies, a move that formalizes a business unit that has remained a financial footnote for years.
AirTrunk announced on 7 October it will invest an additional $1 billion in its Inzai, Japan data center campus, bringing its total planned investment in the country to $9 billion over the next five years.
Anthropic said on Tuesday it is widening its Claude Startups program, offering up to $45,000 in discounts and credits, a day after Denmark disclosed that attackers used a company account to reach the records of about 8.8 million people.
A US judge on 2 October granted publishers a jury trial on their antitrust claims against Google's advertising exchange. The ruling preserves Google's control over AdX while setting the stage for a damages hearing.
Apple led China's smartphone market for the week of September 14 to 20, capturing 33% of sales after the iPhone 18 Pro launch, while Micron's consumer memory unit posted an 88% operating margin on price hikes.
California attorney general Rob Bonta issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI on 1 October. The move opens a formal inquiry into cybersecurity incidents involving the company's AI models, following the July breach of the Hugging Face platform by its agents.
AI cloud provider Blackfuel came out of stealth on 30 September and named Digital Realty's BCN1 data center in Barcelona as its first deployment, a site with 161,500 sq ft (15,000 sqm) of colocation space that opened earlier this year.
AI cloud provider Blackfuel emerged from stealth on 30 September with plans to put its first deployment inside Digital Realty's BCN1 data center in Barcelona, betting that contracted demand, not speculative capacity, is how an AI cloud gets financed.
Manchester City were found guilty of 114 of the 115 charges brought by the Premier League. The investigation found the club inflated revenue and cut costs by more than 900 million pounds between 2009/10 and 2017/18.
Kevin Mandia's agent-swarm security startup Armadin announced a $255.5 million Series B on Thursday, valuing the company at more than $2.5 billion, according to TechCrunch. The round lands just six months after a $190 million Series A in March, taking total funding past $445 million.
CoreWeave unveiled CoreWeave Forge on 30 September, an integrated software platform for building and running AI models and agents that moves the GPU cloud provider directly into the enterprise software market.
Micron told investors on Wednesday it expects about $61.5 billion in revenue for its fiscal first quarter, after fiscal fourth-quarter results beat estimates on a 343% jump in DRAM revenue.
Tencent has signed a five-year lease for about 100,000 advanced AI chips from Oracle in a deal worth roughly $7bn, the Financial Times reported on 2 October, the largest overseas compute lease the Chinese company has struck with a US cloud provider.
Micron reported fiscal fourth-quarter results on Wednesday that beat estimates, with revenue almost quadrupling year over year, and guided fiscal first-quarter revenue to about $61.5 billion, above the $57 billion analysts polled by LSEG had expected.
A San Diego jury ordered Apple to pay $5.7bn on Friday for infringing two Taction Technology haptics patents, one of the largest patent awards against the company, while a White House AI code of conduct signed on 30 September carries no legal weight at all.
Apple was ordered on Friday to pay $5.7bn after a US jury found its haptic tech infringed Taction Technology's patents. The same week, Beam Therapeutics sued two Chinese companies over alleged gene editing theft, and Trump signed a voluntary AI code of conduct.