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Italy's Guardia di Finanza has seized CINEMAGOAL, a piracy app that decrypted Sky, DAZN, and Netflix streams using credentials from fictitious legitimate subscribers.

Austrian startup REPS has raised $23.6m to scale road-embedded energy converters, with its first commercial unit live at the Port of Hamburg since 2025.

Critterz, the OpenAI-backed family animation, missed its Cannes in-festival debut after OpenAI shut down the Sora model used in its production.

NVentures, Nvidia's venture arm, has joined Alice & Bob's 100m Series B in an extension round. The Paris quantum firm targets a useful machine by 2030.

Lenovo reported $21.6bn in Q4 revenue, beating estimates by $2.2bn, on a 26% PC rebound and 84% AI revenue growth. Shares rose 15% in Hong Kong.

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has told investors the Hangzhou lab is targeting AGI, in its first-ever outside raise at a reported $10bn valuation.

Meta has settled the Breathitt County, Kentucky school-district lawsuit, ending the first bellwether trial in MDL 3047 days before it was set to begin.

ClickUp CEO Zeb Evans cut 22% of staff and introduced $1M salary bands for a '100x org' where AI agents outnumber employees 3:1.

GitLab 19.0 extends agentic AI across the full development lifecycle with SBOM dependency scanning, Claude Opus 4.7 support, and credit-based agent pricing.

Google's I/O 2026 redesign accelerates a traffic collapse for publishers. Zero-click searches hit 60%, and news sites report traffic drops of up to 89%.