France rides AI wave to secure €15B in foreign investment
France has secured €15bn in foreign investment from the likes of Microsoft and Amazon as part of thi...
tech 00:00 Tuesday May 14
Semiconductor giant Arm to launch AI chips next year, report says
UK-based Arm, one of the world’s key players in the chip market, is reportedly planning to expand in...
tech 00:00 Tuesday May 14
Neuron-sized brain implant could help blind people see again
A team of researchers have built a vision implant with tiny electrodes the size of a neuron, seeking...
tech 00:00 Thursday May 09
Dutch VC Capital Mills invests in German no-code startup Innoloft
No-code startup Innoloft has raised €2mn in a new funding round led by Dutch VC firm Capital Mills. ...
tech 00:00 Thursday May 09
UK fintech raises £800M for AI that determines how much money you can borrow
An AI scanning your bank transaction data entails a level of invasiveness that I find difficult to a...
tech 08:00 Wednesday May 08
German chip giant lowers 2024 forecast as electronics slowdown bites
Infineon, one of the biggest chip makers in Europe, has lowered its revenue outlook for the year, ci...
tech 00:00 Wednesday May 08
Swiss startup to advance collaborative robots with GenAI humanoid hand
The power of generative AI has further ignited the race for advanced humanoid robots, promising more...
tech 16:00 Tuesday May 07
Dutch startup to bring robotic blood drawing to hospitals
Utrecht-based Vitestro has raised €20mn to bring its robotic blood drawing device to market. Founded...
tech 00:00 Thursday May 02
Dutch startup to test hearing via brain-computer interface
MindAffect, a Netherlands-based healthtech startup, has raised €1.1mn to bring its hearing diagnosti...
tech 00:00 Wednesday May 01
French startup bags €2M to make cancer clinical trials more accessible
Paris-based Klineo has raised €2mn for its AI platform that facilitates access to cancer clinical tr...
tech 00:00 Tuesday Apr 30
DeepL launches AI writing assistant for businesses trained on its own LLM
DeepL, which has been rivalling machine translation giants such as Google Translate and Microsoft Tr...
tech 00:00 Saturday Apr 27
Europe taps deep learning to make industrial robots safer colleagues
Demand for industrial robots is rising in Europe, especially driven by the benefits of automation. H...
tech 00:00 Friday Apr 26
‘Airbnb for cars’ platform SnappCar changes hands in bid for further growth
Dutch car-sharing platform SnappCar, which claims to be the largest of its kind in the Netherlands, ...
sustainability 00:00 Thursday Apr 25
Chip giant ASML plans Eindhoven expansion in big win for Dutch tech
In a major win for the Dutch tech industry, chip giant ASML intends to remain and further expand in ...
tech 00:00 Wednesday Apr 24
Brits to issue their own sick notes via algorithm under plan to save GP time
In an attempt to reduce the workload of GPs, the UK is planning to introduce a new National Health S...
tech 00:00 Tuesday Apr 23
China still ASML’s biggest market, but falling sales cause drop in profit
Amid the semiconductor industry’s slowdown and increasing geopolitical tensions, Dutch chip machine-...
tech 00:00 Thursday Apr 18
Dutch deep tech fund for photonics startups reaches €75M after second close
PhotonVentures, a Dutch deep tech fund aiming to boost Europe’s photonics industry, has closed its s...
tech 08:00 Wednesday Apr 17
To legislate or not to legislate? How EU and UK differ in their approach to AI
The boom of artificial intelligence has spurred a regulatory frenzy across the globe — and Europe is...
tech 00:00 Tuesday Apr 16
Green transition at the centre of EU-China tech rivalry
With the geopolitical landscape turning more unstable by the day, EU relations with China are also b...
tech 00:00 Thursday Apr 11
Italy sets up €1B AI fund, mulls new penalties for the tech’s misuse
Backed by state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), Italy is committing €1bn to AI development o...
tech 00:00 Wednesday Apr 10
Spotify’s new AI tool creates playlists for any setting or feeling you ask for
Spotify is further tapping AI to boost its services with a new feature that enables users to create ...
tech 00:00 Tuesday Apr 09
Opera is now the first leading browser with built-in local LLMs
Opera now becomes the first major browser to offer built-in access to local AI models. Starting toda...
tech 00:00 Thursday Apr 04
Mistral AI, Europe’s OpenAI rival, adds top LLM to Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock, the tech giant’s platform for building generative AI applications, has added Mistral...
tech 00:00 Thursday Apr 04
Artificial pancreas that pumps insulin into diabetes patients launches on NHS
In a potentially transformative move for healthcare, the NHS is rolling out an “artificial pancreas”...
tech 00:00 Wednesday Apr 03
UK, US strike landmark deal on AI safety testing
Following the recent approval of the EU’s risk-based AI Act, the UK has now partnered up with the US...
tech 00:00 Wednesday Apr 03
UCL spinout bags £10M to make AI ‘super brains’ for 100x faster LLM training
Oriole Networks, a UCL spinout, has raised £10mn in seed funding to build AI “super brains” that pro...
tech 08:00 Thursday Mar 28
1.5M UK jobs now at risk from AI, report finds
Some 11% of job tasks in the UK are currently at risk of AI replacement, a new report by the Institu...
tech 00:00 Thursday Mar 28
Startup building ‘biowearables’ for chronic kidney disease nets €2.3M
Paris-based Metyos has raised €2.3mn in pre-seed funding to improve the lives and health outcomes of...
tech 00:00 Wednesday Mar 27
Netherlands devises €1B plan to keep ASML in the country
The Dutch government is reportedly finalising plans to inject at least €1bn in funding, in an agonis...
tech 00:00 Wednesday Mar 27
How femtech is closing the gender gap in health data
Historically, women’s health has taken a back seat to men’s — leaving a persistent gender gap in dat...
tech 00:00 Wednesday Mar 06