2024’s most important travel tech trends
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…
5 compensation and benefits trends to look out for in 2024
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…
What Europe’s VC funding landscape will look like in 2024, according to analysts
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…
A guide to navigating the next-generation robotics wave
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…
TNW Podcast: Erika Cheung on ethics in entrepreneurship; AI hallucinations in EU politics; Axel Springer + OpenAI
Welcome to the new 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…
AI beats humans for the first time in physical skill game
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…
Meet Finn — bunq’s new GenAI chatbot
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…
TomTom and Microsoft develop in-vehicle AI voice assistant
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…
Tech to transform human-machine interaction with brain data wins €30M
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…
These will be the hottest jobs in European tech in 2024
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…
Why are we still flushing toilets with drinking water? These startups have a solution
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…
X under investigation over suspected breaches of EU content rules
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…