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TNW Podcast: Ariane 6 brings hope; how European companies use AI

July 17, 2024
Computer & Information Technology

Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the 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, Linnea and Andrii talk about the launch of Ariane 6…

17 Jul 24

Riverlane and Atlantic Quantum join forces to advance fault-tolerant quantum computing

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Today, UK error-correction specialist Riverlane and startup Atlantic Quantum announced they have entered into a strategic partnership to scale fluxonium-based qubit architecture and advance the technology towards useful quantum computing. It is a really encouraging time to be writing about quantum tech. Beyond the fact that it is increasingly being…

17 Jul 24

DeepL launches new LLM that ‘outperforms’ Google Translate, ChatGPT

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Since its launch in 2017, DeepL has successfully rivalled machine translation giants such as Google Translate. Today, with the launch of its new large language model (LLM), the startup aims to raise industry standards even higher. In alignment with the unicorn’s technology development strategy, the new LLM is specifically built…

17 Jul 24

What The Jetsons got right and wrong about the future of work

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Sixty years ago the animated series The Jetsons finished its first and only season before being cancelled. Just 24 episodes were broadcast between September 1962 and March 1963. Despite this, the cartoon has achieved huge influence in popular culture, with countless reruns, a reboot in the mid-1980s (51 episodes over…

17 Jul 24

4 new games and experiments from Google Arts & Culture to inspire your summer

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Artists in Residence at the Google Arts & Culture Lab are developing playful tools to inspire creativity with gen AI - discover how their latest experiments can be a sou…

16 Jul 24

Yandex founder launches new Amsterdam-based AI venture after Russia divestment

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Yandex founder Arkady Volozh is building a cloud service platform for developers to train artificial intelligence models. Named Nebius Group, the company says its aim is to become a European global leader in AI infrastructure. The launch follows news from yesterday that Yandex had successfully sold its Russian assets in…

16 Jul 24

How we built AlphaFold 3 to predict the structure and interaction of all of life’s molecules

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Here’s how this model came to be.

16 Jul 24

UK AI startups are now worth $256B, says report

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UK-based AI startups are now worth $256bn, according to new data from Dealroom and HSBC Innovation Banking. They also account for 22% of the country’s innovation ecosystem value — up from 12% in 2019. In the first half of 2024, startups in the field raised $2.1bn. And this amount is…

16 Jul 24

UK scaleup Huma launches ‘Shopify-like’ platform for digital health tools

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UK-based Huma has launched today the Huma Cloud Platform, a “Shopify-like” tool for the healthcare ecosystem to design, build, and launch digital health services. “The digitalization of the healthcare ecosystem is a transformative force that is reshaping how we deliver and experience healthcare and how we conduct research,” Dan Vahdat,…

15 Jul 24

UK solar tech scaleup Naked Energy raises £17M for global expansion

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UK-based Naked Energy has raised £17mn in a Series B round to boost the global expansion of its solar tech solutions. Founded in 2009, Naked Energy set out to help decarbonise heat generation, which contributes over 40% of global CO2 emissions. The scaleup has developed a pair of modular solar…

TNW Podcast: Ariane 6 brings hope; how European companies use AI

Riverlane and Atlantic Quantum join forces to advance fault-tolerant quantum computing

DeepL launches new LLM that ‘outperforms’ Google Translate, ChatGPT

What The Jetsons got right and wrong about the future of work

4 new games and experiments from Google Arts & Culture to inspire your summer

Yandex founder launches new Amsterdam-based AI venture after Russia divestment

How we built AlphaFold 3 to predict the structure and interaction of all of life’s molecules

UK AI startups are now worth $256B, says report

UK scaleup Huma launches ‘Shopify-like’ platform for digital health tools

UK solar tech scaleup Naked Energy raises £17M for global expansion

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law