# Analysis

Revolut faces questions over ‘deeply concerning’ data breach

A group of hackers is reportedly threatening to release stolen customer data

AI agents are moving faster than Europe can regulate

Rapid technological advances are stoking anxiety across the continent

Why did Samsung back Mistral?

With a trio of co-leads from around the globe, including strategic backing from Samsung, Mistral is doubling down on the sovereignty play

Matt Clifford's move to Anthropic draws criticism: 'Not cool'

Some believe it's a shame that one of the UK’s top tech leaders is joining a US company

Renewed online debate about German bureaucracy sparks criticism over startup scene: ‘Things need to change’

An X post by Stripe CEO Patrick Collison over the weekend highlighted the laborious procedures startups have to go through in Germany

Defence startups lean on the Danish model to support Ukraine’s war efforts: ‘It’s a win-win’

Can Denmark become an important base for Europe’s defence against Russian hostilities? Some think so.

Should tech events ban Meta’s smart glasses?

The popular specs — which critics call "pervert glasses" — have divided a normally pro-tech crowd

Who are Europe’s ‘top’ VCs? Claude and ChatGPT have some left-field picks

New research reveals which investors are out-competing the world's biggest players on AI recommendations

How badly does Europe need its own frontier AI models?

UK officials have been reviewing the risks of losing access to Anthropic’s Fable and other models

Startups are clamping down on internal AI slop: ‘You’re losing so much’

AI writing policies could become commonplace in startups, as people tire of slop

ARR fever hits fintech: ‘We are still relevant’

The sector’s startups are mimicking AI companies as they compete for visibility

Lessons from Ukraine on keeping up morale

The country's tech workers face extraordinary challenges every day. Seven tell Sifted how they keep going

DeepMind shakeup tests UK’s AI ambitions

Google’s AI reshuffle could weaken a key pillar of Britain’s startup ecosystem, experts say — but it may be a gift for the country’s talent-hungry neolabs

Sweaty, insane, cracked: Decoding the language of founder praise

A field guide to the increasingly absurd language founders and investors use to praise one another

The billion-dollar question: How will the neolabs actually make money?

Expect products as soon as Q3 from some, while others are focused on longer-term goals

What the CEO of Irish unicorn Tines learned from its AI overhaul

Eoin Hinchy says his software company was “destined for the scrapheap” unless it made its platform "AI-native"

222 spinouts, €4.9bn raised: Europe’s top universities for spinout funding in H1 2026

Why European VCs are quietly cheering the chip rout

The chip rout could put more emphasis on next-generation chip design and architecture, say investors

Every European unicorn exit of 2026 so far

Seven billion-dollar startups have already found a buyer or hit the public markets in 2026 — matching Europe’s previous annual record

The European startups offering the highest salaries

Sifted found 18 European startups advertising roles paying at least €200k

Meet the team helping Yann LeCun build AI startup AMI Labs

Dozens of Meta alumni have followed LeCun to join the buzzy world models startup

UK defence tech has ‘high hopes’ for new finance minister John Healey

Founders and investors say appointment 'signals seriousness' to NATO allies

'If you're not AI-native, you're not getting funded': European fintech's H1 funding figures

H1 2026 delivers lowest deal count for fintech in over a decade

Europe’s VCs are increasingly taking on jobs at their startups

More European VCs are adding operating roles to their CVs while remaining investors