Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, Aug 17-21, 2026

This week’s stories are about tech and AI, coming from the EU and the USA AI talent wars erode loyalty across top research labs Competition among the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies is fueling a growing retention challenge, as top researchers increasingly move between […]

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Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, Aug 10-14, 2026

This week’s stories are about tech, AI and sustainability, coming from the EU and the USA Europe launches €30B AI data center investment program The European Union officially launched a funding initiative to support the construction of seven large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) data centers across […]

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Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, Aug 3-7, 2026

This week’s stories are about tech, sustainability and AI, coming from the EU and the USA Chipmaking equipment drives majority of semiconductor plant costs The soaring cost of building semiconductor manufacturing plants is being driven less by construction and more by the sophisticated equipment required […]

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Turkish AI quality assurance startup ,kayIQ.ai, launches with $500,000 seed funding

KayIQ’s platform uses agentic AI architecture to automate testing workflows and reduce operational bottlenecks in digital product development kayIQ.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI)platform designed to automate digital product quality assurance, has launched with $500,000 in seed funding provided by its founders and technology investor Magis […]

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ITU, Aksoy Holding launch industrial robotics and AI laboratory in Istanbul

The laboratory is the first university laboratory in Turkey to integrate humanoid robotics, industrial robotics, and AI systems under a single research infrastructure Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ) and Turkish conglomerate Aksoy Holding have inaugurated a new industrial robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory aimed at […]

Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, June 8-12, 2026

This week’s stories are about tech, AI and sustainability, coming from China, EU and the USA Huawei’s advanced semiconductor plan by 2031 Huawei announced to develop advanced semiconductor manufacturing technology by 2031 that could rival the transistor density of next-generation chips being developed by leading […]

Paydaş, a Turkish prop-fintech startup, reached $16 million valuation

Paydaş lets users to participate in rental income and potential value appreciation Turkish prop-fintech startup Paydaş announced reaching USD16 million valuation. The starup raised $1.25 million total cash and in-kind investments so far, as the company seeks to make access to global property income more […]

Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, 11-15 May, 2026

This week’s stories are about tech, AI and sustainability, coming from Denmark, EU and Taiwan EU makes AI regulation less rigid European Union (EU) lawmakers reached a deal to ease parts of the bloc’s landmark artificial intelligence (AI) law and delay implementation deadlines after mounting […]

Top 3 tech, startup and sustainability stories of the week, Apr 20-24, 2026

This week’s stories are about tech, AI and sustainability, coming from the EU, UK and Uzbekistan UK backs AI startups with £500M Sovereign AI fund The British government said it will invest £500 million to support domestic artificial intelligence (AI) startups, aiming to accelerate growth, […]