A German startup plans to jumpstart European EVs with an AI-powered brain. Sphere Energy built the system to simulate battery behaviour. The company then predicts a power sourceâs lifetime in numerous scenarios, from driving styles to temperatures on the road. According to Sphere, the insights shrink the battery testing cycle by at least a year. Developing a car, meanwhile, could be completed âat leastâ twice as quickly. Sphere envisions endless... Read more âș
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The rapid spread of artificial intelligence has people wondering: whoâs most likely to embrace AI in their daily lives? Many assume itâs the tech-savvy â those who understand how AI works â who are most eager to adopt it. Surprisingly, our new research (published in the Journal of Marketing) finds the opposite. People with less knowledge about AI are actually more open to using the technology. We call this difference... Read more âș
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In 1981, American physicist and Nobel Laureate, Richard Feynman, gave a lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) near Boston, in which he outlined a revolutionary idea. Feynman suggested that the strange physics of quantum mechanics could be used to perform calculations. The field of quantum computing was born. In the 40-plus years since, it has become an intensive area of research in computer science. Despite years of frantic... Read more âș
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There are a handful of challenges that many developers like to tackle as something of a rite of passage to prove their coding worth. One is creating a compiler. That fundamental building block of many programming languages ââââtranslates the more human-understandable code into something a computer understands. Another and far more ambitious challenge is building an operating system. The scope is almost limitless. You could create a Linux distribution, which... Read more âș
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Shares in ASML have bounced back from the hit inflicted by DeepSeekâs AI advances. Celebrating the results, ASML predicted that the sudden emergence of low-cost models will boost demand for the firmâs semiconductor machines. The companyâs stock price rose by over 10% on Wednesday after the Dutch business reported impressive orders for its chip-making equipment. The tools produce the most advanced semiconductors in the world â and ASML is the... Read more âș
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From 2013 to 2023, the number of ICT specialists in the EU increased by 59.3% according to Eurostat. In that period, most of these tech workers were found in Germany, which provided employment for 21.5% of the EUâs ICT specialistsâunsurprising when you consider the fact that the country is home to a myriad of high-tech companies and organisations such as SAP, Siemens, Bosch, and Audi. France had the second largest... Read more âș
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DeepSeek sent ripples through the global tech landscape this week as it soared above ChatGPT in Appleâs app store. The meteoric rise has shifted the dynamics of US-China tech competition, shocked global tech stock valuations, and reshaped the future direction of artificial intelligence (AI) development. Among the industry buzz created by DeepSeekâs rise to prominence, one question looms large: what does this mean for the strategy of the third leading... Read more âș
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DeepSeek proves that Silicon Valley canât monopolise AI innovation, according to a European AI entrepreneur. Muj Choudhury, the CEO and co-founder of British voice processing startup RocketPhone, welcomed DeepSeekâs rapid rise. He hopes the Chinese company signals a shift in the balance of AI power. âAI development has long been dominated by Silicon Valleyâs powerful VC firms, which wield immense influence by pouring vast sums into the technology and shaping... Read more âș
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Spanish tech star TravelPerk has raised a whopping $200mn and sealed the acquisition of expenses platform Yokoy. The investment values TravelPerk at $2.7bn â almost double last yearâs $1.4bn valuation. The business travel giant said the funds would fuel further product development and expansion into the US. European VC firm Atomico led the Series E investment. Alongside the cash injection, TravelPerk announced the purchase of Yokoy, a Swiss startup thatâs... Read more âș
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Swedish startup Adsorbi has secured âŹ1mn to ramp up production of a cellulose-based material that sucks up pollutants from the air. MetsĂ€ Spring, the venture arm of the Finnish forestry giant, led the funding round alongside Chalmers Ventures and Jovitech Invest. âWe are planning to launch the pilot plant in June and we will be equipped to meet our customer demands while maintaining consistent quality,â Hanna Johansson, CEO of Adsorbi,... Read more âș
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Remember when spotting a drone in the sky was a novelty? Now itâs like playing whack-a-mole with flying machines. Delivery drones, military drones, AI drones, hobby drones â our skies are busier than the queue at airport security. Without air traffic control, weâre one step away from midair collisions and drones arguing over parking spots. Enter AirDodge, a Norwegian startup thatâs stepping in to tame the chaos. The Oslo-based company... Read more âș
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Stunning AI advances from Chinese startup DeepSeek have sent tech stocks tumbling across the US and Europe. DeepSeek released a free chatbot and new open-source AI models last week. Within days, the chatbot had overtaken ChatGPT to reach the top spot on the Apple App Storeâs free app rankings. The new R1 models sent further shockwaves through the AI world. R1 promised performance to rival OpenAI topâs reasoning model â... Read more âș
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The practice of medicine has undergone an incredible, albeit incomplete, transformation over the past 50 years, moving steadily from a field informed primarily by expert opinion and the anecdotal experience of individual clinicians toward a formal scientific discipline. The advent of evidence-based medicine meant clinicians identified the most effective treatment options for their patients based on quality evaluations of the latest research. Now, precision medicine is enabling providers to use... Read more âș
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Right now, thereâs at least one nuclear-power, nuclear-armed submarine stealthily patrolling the waters off the UK. The sub is powered by a nuclear reactor, so it can cruise undetected for over 20 years without refuelling. Oh, and itâs also armed with eight nuclear warheads â each six times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Since 1969, the Royal Navy has kept at least one of these fission-powered... Read more âș
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Donald Trumpâs big AI announcement has turned heads on both sides of the Atlantic. Trump revealed this week that OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle have formed a joint venture â called Stargate â that will invest $500bn in AI infrastructure. The companies said $100bn of the funding was available immediately. The rest would be deployed over the next four years. Trump billed Stargate as âthe largest AI infrastructure project by far... Read more âș
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Every two years for the last decade, the World Economic Forum has released a comprehensive, and oft cited report proffering insights into the changing nature of the jobs economy. The latest Future of Jobs Report, which covers 2025â2030, combines the viewpoints of more than 1,000 prominent international businesses, who together account for over 14 million workers in 22 sector clusters and 55 economies worldwide. Here are a few key takeaways:... Read more âș
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Ah, quantum computing⊠that moonshot technology full of potential, full of promise â and jam-packed with enough jargon to make the average person cry. Qubits, entanglement, superposition, trapped-ions, Schrödingerâs cat. These terms sound strange because the world of quantum mechanics â where things can exist in multiple states at once â is strange. And thatâs why I want you to bear with me while I relay this latest piece of... Read more âș
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A new season of the âChampions League of Techâ has begun with the return of TECH5 â Europeâs hottest scaleup contest. Over the next five months, TECH5 will showcase the continentâs future stars. The competition comes to a climax on June 19-20, when the 2025 winners are announced on the main stage of TNW Conference. Applications for the tournament opened this week. Promising scaleups from across the continent have been... Read more âș
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An Icelandic scaleup has sparked hopes of a breakthrough in dementia treatment after raising âŹ26.5mn for groundbreaking research. Arctic Therapeutics (ATx) attracted the investment after pioneering a new approach to drug development. Founded in 2015, the company first analyses genomic data with bioinformatics â a blend of computer science and biology. After identifying disease-associated genes and proteins, ATx targets the root causes of a given condition. According to the scaleup,... Read more âș
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Dutch scaleup Mosa Meat, the maker of the âworldâs kindest burger,â has submitted its first request to sell cultivated meat in the EU. Cultivated or âlab-grownâ meat is made by harvesting animal cells and growing them in a high-tech bioreactor filled with a nutrient-packed broth. The result? Real meat minus the slaughterhouses and climate-heating emissions. Singapore, the US, and most recently Israel are the only countries that have approved sales... Read more âș
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