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Meta layoffs: More than half of the 8,000 job cuts are in two US states, and these roles took the biggest hit
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Meta Slashed 8,000 Jobs to Fund Its AI Bet, and Middle Managers Paid the Heaviest Price
Founder News Team Jun 11, 2026 0

Meta's aggressive AI investment push has triggered 8,000 layoffs, with 4,665 cuts concentrated in California and Washington state. Middle managers…

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Britain Bets £2 Billion on Quantum Supremacy as Oxford Startup Raises Europe’s Largest Ever Private Quantum Round
Founder News Team Jun 3, 2026 0

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), founded in 2017 by Dr Peter Leek as a University of Oxford spinout, has closed a…

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European Companies Are Sitting on an AI Gold Mine They Cannot Access
Founder News Team May 20, 2026 0

OpenAI's vice president of enterprise, Ashley Kramer, says the biggest challenge facing European businesses deploying AI is a "capability overhang"…

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Britain’s Cultivated Meat Pioneer Raises £10.4M to Build Europe’s Largest Lab-Grown Chicken Facility
Founder News Team May 8, 2026 0

London-based cultivated meat startup Meatly has secured £10.4 million in Series A funding to construct Europe's largest cultivated meat production…

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Inside the $17 income play paying 5.7% yield after its biggest earnings disappointment
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Inside the $17 income play paying 5.7% yield after its hugegest earnings disappointment
Founder News Team May 7, 2026 0

© mayu85 / Shutterstock.com Gladstone Investment (NASDAQ:GAIN) is the income-focutilized business development company that pays shareholders a $0.08 monthly distribution…

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Revolut mafia: Inside Europe’s biggest fintech’s founder factory
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Revolut mafia: Inside Europe’s hugegest fintech’s founder factory
Founder News Team May 5, 2026 0

Over the past decade, UK fintech giant Revolut has become one of Europe’s most prolific founder factories. Mkkq trhmdhl coxttmyeaenau…

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Tech Layoffs cross 92,000 in April, making 2026 the worst year for tech employees ever: Meta, Amazon, Oracle and other companies that announced biggest job cuts 2026
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Tech Layoffs cross 92,000 in April, building 2026 the worst year for tech employees ever: Meta, Amazon, Oracle and other companies that announced hugegest job cuts 2026
Founder News Team May 3, 2026 0

Representative image (AI generated) It’s only May, and the tech industest has already handed pink slips to more than 92,000…

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How we can use AI — and smarter cloud — to solve some of Europe's biggest climate problems
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How we can utilize AI — and smarter cloud — to solve some of Europe’s hugegest climate problems
Founder News Team May 1, 2026 0

The European Union has set some of the world’s most ambitious tarreceives: reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, cutting emissions by…

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European tech startups: The 10 biggest funding rounds of October 2019
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European tech startups: The 10 hugegest funding rounds of October 2019
Founder News Team Apr 25, 2026 0

Talking about startups, Europe is home to hundreds and thousands of tech startups. in an attempt to motivate these companies…

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Among Europe's biggest tech firms: AI expansion drives up profits at bullish tech giant ASML
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Among Europe’s hugegest tech firms: AI expansion drives up profits at bullish tech giant ASML
Founder News Team Apr 15, 2026 0

Dutch tech giant ASML, which creates cutting-edge machines to manufacture semiconductor chips, declared Wednesday that rapidly expanding AI-related investments had…

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