NATO’s VC fund backs biotech startup for first time

The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) has made its first investment in a biotechnology startup. The alliance’s VC arm announced today that it’s co-leading a $35mn Series A round for UK-based Portal Biote [...]

A viral band on Spotify is probably AI — but there’s no label to tell you

AI slop songs are flooding Spotify — and the latest hit is by an indie rock band called The Velvet Sundown. The track’s success has intensified the ongoing debate on whether or not music streaming [...]

The race to make AI as multilingual as Europe

The European Union has 24 official languages and dozens more unofficial ones spoken across the continent. If you add in the European countries outside the union, then that brings at least a dozen more [...]

Europe’s 20 largest startup funding rounds this year (so far)

Despite a cautious VC climate and ongoing geopolitical jitters, European startups are still attracting serious cash.  Covering everything from AI drug discovery and space launches to quantum softwar [...]

‘Europe is not the US’: Tech insiders call for smarter AI rules

The EU AI Act is expected to introduce its key rules for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models on August 2. However, amid growing concerns that over-regulation could erode Europe’s competitiveness in art [...]

Arcee aims to reboot U.S. open source AI with new Trinity models released under Apache 2.0

For much of 2025, the frontier of open-weight language models has been defined not in Silicon Valley or New York City, but in Beijing and Hangzhou.Chinese research labs including Alibaba's Qwen, [...]

Opinion: Red lines and Red flags

The fierce standoff over Claude isn’t just a contract fight. It’s about who controls the future of military AI. In Washington and Silicon Valley, a conflict once relegated to specialist policy bri [...]

From satellite ops to nordic launchpad

Bjørn Ottar Elseth, an aerospace engineer and strategic advisor, has dedicated his career to connecting technology, leadership, and collaboration in ways that support meaningful industrial progress. [...]

Snap cuts 1,000 jobs as Spiegel bets AI can do the work of a bigger workforce

Snap is cutting roughly 1,000 jobs, or 16% of its full-time workforce, as CEO Evan Spiegel cites AI-driven efficiency gains and pursues more than $500 million in annualised cost savings. The layoffs f [...]