Europe wants to ween itself off of foreign big tech. Could this be the sign of a future rift with Silicon Valley? The weird case of Rippling versus Deel. Klarna lands a big fish. What the Coreweave IPO could mean for tech. And how the new iPhone Air signals a big hardware design change at Apple.

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Links:

• European tech industry coalition calls for ‘radical action’ on digital sovereignty — starting with buying local (TechCrunch)
• Accusations of Corporate Espionage Shake a Software Rivalry (NYTimes)
• Klarna, nearing IPO, plucks lucrative Walmart fintech partnership from rival Affirm (CNBC)
• CoreWeave serves as bellwether for AI in soft IPO market (Semafor)
• Apple’s iPhone 17 ‘Air’ Is a Step Toward a Slimmer, Port-Free Era (Bloomberg)

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