Good news from around Europe
Meta blocked over 500,000 accounts due to the ban on social media for children in Australia Meta blocked 550,000 accounts belonging to Australian children under the age of 16 in the first days of the law prohibiting teenagers from using social networks, BBC reports. In December, legislation came into force
Yann LeCun poaches from Meta, Google DeepMind for new startup Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/yann-lecun-ami-labs-team-meta
Turning summer sun to winter power: Energy resilience startup builds first factory for the Danish market Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/photoncycle-builds-factory-in-northern-europe
French drone maker Harmattan AI raises $200m Series B at $1.4bn valuation Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/harmattan-ai-200m-series-b-unicorn
How WONE is turning stress into a human performance advantage Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/stress-into-human-performance-advantage-brnd
Inside Hiro Capital’s €500m plan for European startups: ‘We can shift the dial’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/nick-clegg-hiro-capital-yann-lecun-vc
More than 100 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 — here they are Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns so far this year. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/12/at-least-36-new-tech-unicorns-were-minted-in-2025-so-far/
OpenAI buys tiny health records startup Torch for, reportedly, $100M AI health records startup Torch will be using its tech for OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Health, according to co-founder Ilya Abyzov. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/12/openai-buys-tiny-health-records-startup-torch-for-reportedly-100m/
Hands-on with Bee, Amazon’s latest AI wearable We tried Amazon’s new AI wearable Bee. It’s not for pro users yet, but more features are expected this year. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/12/hands-on-with-bee-amazons-latest-ai-wearable/
Why Amazon bought Bee, an AI wearable Amazon explains where its wearable Bee fits in and whether it will merge with Alexa. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/12/why-amazon-bought-bee-an-ai-wearable/