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When I left fintech to build a children's mobile app, everyone assumed it would be a step down in complexity. Banking products are serious. Children's apps are... cute. They were wrong. But the assumption taught me something important: the skills that make you dangerous in a
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During the pandemic tech boom, "learn to code" sounded like universal career advice. Companies competed for developers; in 2021, there were over 1.2 million active job openings in computer-related occupations in the US. In that environment, it was easy to believe that the main ticket into the
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Everyone's Watching the Wrong Part of the Stablecoin Story In short: Six of Wall Street's biggest names — BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, State Street, Fidelity, BNY, and Invesco — have all launched or filed for dedicated money market funds for stablecoin reserves in 2026. This isn't a
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There was a week, I cannot tell you exactly when it happened, when I was technically everywhere. Responding within minutes. Never missing a message. Always available. And yet, two people I genuinely care about told me, in different ways and at different moments, that something felt off. One was a
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The last wave of AI learned to describe the world. The next needs to learn how the world pushes back. A Cambridge startup thinks the answer hides inside video games. Worldmodeldata has raised £7m (€8m) to turn gameplay into AI training data, Tech Funding News reported. London’s Iona Star
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Denmark has taken a side in one of the quieter but more consequential legal battles over how the internet pays for journalism. The Danish government has filed a written intervention at the Court of Justice of the European Union, backing Belgium in a case brought by a group of technology
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Meta has sold millions of camera-equipped smart glasses, and landed in a privacy storm for it. A Shenzhen startup is betting $1bn that the smarter move is to leave the camera off. Even Realities has raised $150m at a $1 billion valuation, TechCrunch reported. Chinese giants Meituan and Tencent led
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Five months ago, Uber promised to storm five new European countries with its food-delivery app. It just quietly hit the brakes, and the reason looks a lot like a €10bn takeover. Uber has paused five of its seven planned 2026 European launches, the Financial Times reported. Uber announced the push
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Broadcom has extended its long-running relationship with Apple through 2031, signing new multi-year agreements to design and supply a range of custom chips for the iPhone maker. The deal deepens one of the most important supplier relationships in consumer electronics, and it sent Broadcom’s shares up around 4% as
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Microsoft told its Xbox staff the truth in blunt terms: the business “is not healthy.” The fix? 3,200 job cuts, five studios out the door, two of them European. Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma laid it out in an official memo on Monday. She called it the most significant
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People increasingly ask ChatGPT instead of Google. So marketers now plant fake opinions on Reddit, hoping the chatbots repeat them. Reddit is fighting back with AI of its own. Reddit has a new spam problem, and a strange one. Brands seed the platform with stealth marketing, Bloomberg reports. They plant
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Klarna wants to be a real American bank. The Swedish BNPL giant has applied for a US banking licence, betting a friendlier Washington will let it crack a market that has bruised European rivals. Klarna has applied to US regulators to set up its own bank, tech.eu reports. The
