These AI agents could cut your workweek to just 3 days
Most of us would love a break from the 9-to-5 grind, evidenced by the recent hype over the four-day workweek. But a new startup from the UK promises to help…
‘Unsafe’ AI images proliferate online. Study suggests 3 ways to curb the scourge
Over the past year, AI image generators have taken the world by storm. Heck, even our distinguished writers at TNW use them from time to time. Truth is, tools like…
How Europe is racing to resolve its AI sovereignty woes
While not yet as illustrious as its North American counterparts OpenAI, Anthropic, or Cohere, Europe’s own cohort of generative AI startups is beginning to crystallise. Just yesterday, news broke that…
Musk on how to turn the UK into a ‘unicorn breeding ground’
If you are generally interested in technology, and are not aware by now of the meeting that took place yesterday between Rishi Sunak and Elon Musk during the UK’s AI…
How this Berlin startup deploys AI to make preventative healthcare accessible
There are plenty of conversations around how AI can progress healthcare. And indeed, it has numerous applications in the form of diagnostics and accelerated drug discovery. However, wouldn’t it be…
Why AI progress hitting the brakes is more likely than world domination
There’s a looming global computing capacity crunch that cannot be sustainably addressed the way we’re doing things right now. Simply put, between artificial intelligence (AI) models growing exponentially and an…
Amsterdam’s Orquesta raises €800,000 for no-code LLM gateway
Amsterdam-based startup Orquesta today announced an oversubscribed €800,000 pre-seed funding round. The company has developed a platform through which companies can integrate various Large Language Models (LLMs) directly into their…
Paris-based Mistral releases first generative AI model — and it’s totally free
Europe’s startup contribution to the generative AI bonanza, Mistral, has released its first model. Mistral 7B is free to download and be used anywhere — including locally. French AI developer…
European Central Bank assembles ‘infinity team’ to identify GenAI applications
European Union bureaucracy might not conjure the most exciting of connotations. However, being part of the “infinity team” surely puts a superhero-esque spin on your average Frankfurt grey high-rise working…
‘World’s most accurate’ startup data platform to identify gaps in AI ecosystem
Today, the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, along with early-stage VC OpenOcean, released what they call “the world’s most accurate open access startup insights platform” — the…
Germany doubles funds for AI ‘made in Europe’
On Wednesday, the German government announced that it would nearly double its funding for artificial intelligence research. The money pledged towards the development of AI systems now amounts to nearly…
UK commits £100M to secure AI chip components
In an intensifying global battle for semiconductor self-sufficiency, the UK will reportedly spend £100mn of taxpayer money to buy AI chip technology from AMD, Intel, and Nvidia. The initiative is…