German climate tech VC raises ‘record-breaking’ €300M first fund
Berlin-based World Fund has filled its coffers with €300M, in what it claims to be the largest first-time fund raised by any climate tech VC in European history. Founded in…
Swedish startup secures €10M to turn industrial waste into green cement
Concrete — a mixture of cement, sand, and water — is the second most used material on Earth after water. Ton-for-ton, more of it is laid down every year than…
How regionalised data sovereignty is changing the marketing landscape
In 2020, amid a rapidly evolving global data landscape, TikTok, a brand deeply rooted in Chinese technology and known for its extensive collection of user data, found itself at a…
AI-generated digital twins of patients can predict future diseases
An AI tool that creates digital twins of patients can predict our future health, according to a new study. Named Foresight, the tool uses generative pre-trained transformers, the same family…
This startup is building AI that can fly drones and make its own decisions
The debate on how far artificial intelligence can go revolves around questions about what actually constitutes human intelligence, and can a machine function similarly enough to a human brain? While…
French competition watchdog fines Google €250M for AI copyright breaches
Google has been slapped with a €250mn fine for breaching EU intellectual property rules in how it deals with media publishers, including scraping news articles to train its AI models…
How news organisations decide whether a photo is ‘too edited’
In the era of artificial intelligence and accessible photo editing, you can’t believe everything you see online. One exception, of course, is (usually) if it’s published by a reputable news…
Urban mobility leader Cowboy launches Cross, first all-road ebike model
Have you tried your first ebike yet? Despite being surrounded by them on a daily basis in Amsterdam (only mildly bitter as they whizz past me while I struggle against…
Denmark’s new Nvidia AI supercomputer will come online this year
Two of the biggest winners over the past year — chipmaker Nvidia and pharmaceutical drug maker Novo Nordisk — are joining forces to set up one the world’s most advanced…
Iceland eruption: How tech can help predict the next volcanic event
On Saturday, a giant 3-kilometre fissure opened up in the ground on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland, sending a river of molten lava flowing across the landscape. The eruption is…
“Something felt ‘off’” — how AI messed with our human research
All levels of research are being changed by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Don’t have time to read that journal article? AI-powered tools such as TLDRthis will summarise it…
How hydrofoil boat startup Candela took a wild idea and made it fly
In 1906, inventor Enrico Forlanini launched the first hydrofoil boat on Lake Maggiore in the Italian alps. His contemporary innovator Alexander Bell later said a ride on Forlanini’s invention was…