Insider Brief France-based medical robotics company SquareMind has raised $18 million, including previously undisclosed pre-Series A financing, as it prepares to launch its robotic skin imaging platform for dermatology practices in the United States and Europe. According to the company, the round was led by Sonder Capital, a California venture fund co-founded by Fred Moll, […]
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Global imbalances are smaller than they were in 2007, but they have not disappeared. getty Few topics in international economics dominated the policy conversation of the early 2000s as completely as global saving imbalances. The fear at the time was that the United States had become the borrower of last resort for the world’s excess saving, running current-account deficits on a scale that could not continue indefinitely, and that when the imbalance unwound, the adjustment might be abrupt and ugly. Two decades on, the imbalances are smaller and the rhetoric is calmer, but the underlying economics has not gone away. To see why, it helps to begin with an accounting identity. In an open economy, the current account reflects national saving minus domestic investment. A surplus country saves more than it invests at home and sends the difference abroad. A deficit country does the reverse. It invests more
Iran entered the final night of February 2026 under a near-total internet shutdown. In the wake of a joint strike by the United States and Israel, Tehran almost completely severed the country's connection to the global internet — likely leaving only users on a government whitelist with access to the outside world.
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The company’s UK and Europe boss has become a lightning rod for the British public’s fear of a US tech takeover
The hall was packed with rightwing radicals when Louis Mosley heralded a coming revolution. Just as Oliver Cromwell – that “crusader for Christ and liberty” – routed King Charles I’s royalists, “a similar revolution is brewing today”, said the UK and Europe boss of Palantir. Globalism’s “twilight” was upon us, he said in a speech dotted with admiring mentions of the podcaster Joe Rogan and “Elon’s Doge”.
It was not a typical peroration for a big UK government contractor with more than £600m in deals with the NHS, the Ministry of Defence and police. But Palantir, the world’s most controversial tech company, is no typical contractor. In recent years it has gained firm footholds across Britain’s public sector while appalling critics with its leadership’s rightwing rhetoric and its work for the US and Israeli militaries and Donald Trump’s ICE immigration crackdown.
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Partnership between top startup DeepL and Amazon comes amid concern about Silicon Valley’s monopoly over digital infrastructure
AI companies in Europe risk losing their world-leading status in the field of machine translation, industry figures have said, after the decision by one of the continent’s leading startups to partner with Amazon’s cloud computing division provoked alarm.
While businesses in the EU have generally lagged behind the US and China in AI adoption, a small group of European companies have cornered the global market for high-quality machine translations for professional use.
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QyTw0, the Finnish AI lab founded by former AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin, is now valued at €325 million (approximately $380 million) after raising a €25 million angel round ($29 million). It's a sign of enduring tailwinds for AI, quantum computing, and sovereign tech, especially for Europe-made companies.