Cloudflare’s engineering headcount surged 45 percent in the weeks after the company cut 1,100 jobs in May, according to BNP Paribas data drawn from LinkedIn profiles. The finding, first reported by Business Insider, shows Cloudflare’s engineering staff grew from 1,308 to 1,894 even as its total workforce shrank by a fifth. CEO Matthew Prince confirmed […] This story continues at The Next Web Read more ›
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Artificial intelligence went mainstream in 2023. The watershed moment arrived at the end of the previous year, with the November 30 release of ChatGPT. Just two months later, the OpenAI system was reaching an estimated 100 million active users. According to analysts at investment bank UBS, the headline-grabbing chatbot had become the fastest-growing consumer app of all time. Over the remaining course of 2023, the hype train went into overdrive.... Read more ›
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In this bonus episode of the TNW Podcast, we’re featuring two interviews with notable European VC players: Kinga Stanislawska, founder of European Women in VC and co-founder Experior VC. We talked about the state of diversity in European VC, the issues we’re facing, and the potential ways to solve them. Sten Tamkivi, partner at Plural Platform. We discussed his vision of the European VC landscape, as well as some predictions... Read more ›
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has undeniably witnessed a meteoric rise in recent years, revolutionising industries, transforming economies, and reshaping the way we live and work. Emergn has found that an overwhelming 94% of new digital products and services will be at least partly AI developed by 2028. As we stand on the cusp of an AI-driven future, the prospects seem boundless, with promises of increased efficiency, innovation, and improved quality of... Read more ›
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AI cannot be named on a patent as the inventor of a new idea or product, said the UK’s top court in a ruling that raises existential questions about our relationship with ever-more intelligent machines. Handing down the judgment on Wednesday, Lord Kitchin said: “We conclude that an ‘inventor’ must be a natural person. Only a person can devise an invention.” The case was first heard back in 2018 by... Read more ›
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Down rounds, corrections, and adjustments. These are just a few of the gloomy terms you have likely heard a lot of in European tech in 2023. It has been a year of bleak headlines in tech — and European startups, scaleups, and giants didn’t escape the trend. Job cuts have been a common theme and valuations have been slashed. We saw Hopin, the digital events startup that was once a... Read more ›
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Guest post by Singapore Tourism Board As the tourism industry continues its post-pandemic recovery in an increasingly uncertain travel market, a question that has dawned upon us is — what’s next? Naturally, many of us are looking towards technology for more opportunities. In 2023, we saw the generative AI boom and further growth of emerging technologies like extended reality (XR) and 5G. While these advances are already shaping the travel... Read more ›
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Virgile Raingeard is the co-founder and CEO of Europe’s leading compensation benchmarking platform Figures, founded in 2020 and based in France. 1. The end to ‘competitive salary’ on job adverts Pay transparency has been the talk of the town this year following the new EU directive adopted by the Council in April, which will force companies to tell job seekers the expected salary (or salary range) for positions they advertise.... Read more ›
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2023 has been a tough funding year for European startups — even being characterised as the “most depressed” in VC exit value in a decade. Amid uncertainty and a staggering macroeconomic environment, VC activity and deal value also, unsurprisingly, dropped. But what will the funding ecosystem look like in 2024? And, more importantly, will it bring cause for hope for startups and investors alike? According to analysis by Pitchbook, neither... Read more ›
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The generative AI movement may dominate today’s headlines, but another technological transformation is gaining momentum under the radar—the proliferation of autonomous service robots. Their surge in popularity continues to be fueled by their ability to improve efficiency and reduce the need for manual labor in repetitive, hazardous tasks, as well as more recent advancements in sensor fusion and software-defined processes that improve their price-performance. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic has... Read more ›
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Welcome to the first episode of the TNW Podcast — our new show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry. In today’s episode, Andrii and Linnea talk about what happens when generative AI hallucinations start to concern European politics, the big deal between OpenAI and Axel Springer, similarities between the industries of computer... Read more ›
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AI’s ability to beat human players in games like chess and GO is no longer surprising. After all, artificial intelligence has proved it can outperform its animate creators in certain tasks, especially when it comes to processing and analysing information. But physical skill has remained a human prerogative — until now. Researchers at ETH Zurich have created an AI robot with the task to learn how to play the popular... Read more ›
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Today, Dutch neobank bunq launched its generative AI platform — Finn. Running on open large language models (LLMs) from OpenAI and Meta, the new chatbot function is designed to help users plan their finances, make better budgets, and easily find transactions. Essentially, according to bunq, enabling users to “live the life they want.” “It is basically as if you have your own personal accountant who knows everything about your personal... Read more ›
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Digital maps and location tech specialist TomTom has partnered up with Microsoft to develop an AI voice assistant for vehicles. According to the Netherlands-based company, the automotive assistant enables voice interaction with location search, infotainment, and vehicle command systems. This means that drivers can “converse” with the vehicle, ask questions about navigation directions or route stops, and use voice control to regulate the temperature, for instance, or open the windows... Read more ›
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German-Dutch startup Zander Laboratories has secured €30mn in funding from Germany’s Cyber Agency to transform the interaction between humans and machines. Notably, this is the largest single-financed research project in the EU to date. The startup beat four other contenders who competed for the government’s “Secure Neural Human-Machine Interaction” proposal call in October. Zander Laboratories took home the price thanks to its “Neuroadaptivity for Autonomous Systems” (NAFAS) project, which aims... Read more ›
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More money, better benefits, greater flexibility to work when and where they like: Europe’s tech workers, in tandem with their global counterparts, have a laundry list of demands going into 2024. A recent Gallup poll found that “blenders,” aka those who prefer a job where work and life are more blended throughout the day, make up 55% of the professional workforce. So when it comes to the hottest roles in... Read more ›
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If you take a morning shower at the voco Brussels City North hotel, the water that you see trickling down the drain as you wash your hair might visit you again later — when you flush the toilet in the evening. However, before that shower water returns to swirl around your toilet bowl and dash, at last, towards the city’s sewers, it will go through a special treatment process enabled... Read more ›
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X, formerly Twitter, is the first online platform to experience the full wrath of the Digital Services Act (DSA) — the EU’s landmark content moderation rulebook. The DSA, which entered into force in November for 19 major platforms, sets a list of rules designed to protect users against harmful or illegal content, disinformation, and the violation of privacy and free speech. But while big tech has so far rushed to... Read more ›
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A branch of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is launching a drone delivery scheme across 30 medical facilities in the north of the country. The aim is to cut costs, while improving service to hundreds of thousands of patients. The Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has been experimenting with autonomous drone deliveries for a while now, in partnership with UK-based Apian. The startup was founded by two former NHS... Read more ›
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Methane is the second biggest greenhouse gas contributor to climate change. It’s also 84 times more potent than culprit number one, carbon dioxide. Unsurprisingly, 60% of global emissions result from human activity. While reducing methane emissions is key to tackling global warming, removing it from the air has proven challenging. That’s because the gas can be burnt off from air when its concentration exceeds 4%. However, the majority of human-caused... Read more ›
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A site located on the Scottish island of Unst has become the first spaceport in Western Europe to be granted a licence for vertical rocket launches. SaxaVord spaceport in the Shetland Islands secured the licence from the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority, paving the way for the first rocket launches in 2024. It follows a three-year assessment by the authority to determine whether the spaceport meets stringent safety, security, and environmental... Read more ›
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