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How Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Centre is driving growth: ‘There’s a lot of investors tapping into the ecosystem’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/oxford-said-entrepreneurship-centre-driving-growth-brnd

Britain is catching onto the dangers of tech chokepoints Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/tony-blair-institute-liz-kendall-tech-sovereignty

Europe’s fastest-rising ‘tier two’ tech hubs Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/tier-two-tech-hubs

16 French startups to watch, according to VCs Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/16-french-startups-to-watch

Amazon’s cloud business is surging — and so is its capital spending The e-commerce giant is making more money than expected from AWS but it’s also spending a lot, and will continue to do so in the near term, its chief executive said. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/amazons-cloud-business-is-surging-and-so-is-its-capital-spending/

Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India PhonePe and Google Pay command 80% of India’s UPI instant payments network. Rivals are set to meet with regulators to lobby for restrictions. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/amazon-meta-join-fight-to-end-google-pay-phonepe-dominance-in-india/

On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets Elon Musk took the stand for the second day for his attempt to legally dismantle OpenAI. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/on-the-stand-elon-musk-cant-escape-his-own-tweets/

Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B The maker of Claude has received multiple pre-emptive offers at valuations in the $850 billion to $900 billion range, according to sources familiar with the matter. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/sources-anthropic-could-raise-a-new-50b-round-at-a-valuation-of-900b/

Meta is still burning money on AR/VR Meta is losing billions on Reality Labs each quarter, and its AI expenditures are only going to increase its spending. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/meta-is-still-burning-money-on-ar-vr/

UK to develop AI hardware plan The UK government will develop an AI hardware plan, the Technology Secretary announced today, just days after US AI giant OpenAI paused a major UK data centre project. The announcement of the plan emerged today as Liz Kendall said that AI sovereignty was not