Good news from around Europe
Apple’s new research robot takes a page from Pixar’s playbook Last month, Apple offered up more insight into its consumer robotics work via a research paper that argues that traits like expressive movements are key to optimizing human-robot interaction. “Like most animals,” starts the report, “humans are highly sensitive to
Elon Musk said he’s not interested in acquiring TikTok Elon Musk recently said he is “not chomping at the bit to acquire TikTok.” Musk made those remarks during an interview at the WELT Economic Summit on January 28. A video of the interview was published today. The interview came after
Ex-Meta employee sues for sexual harassment Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re diving into Google quietly removing its pledge to not build AI weapons for surveillance; how Elon Musk and DOGE are facilitating the biggest breach of U.S. government data; researchers who were able to re-create a
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li says AI policy must be based on ‘science, not science fiction’ Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford computer scientist and startup founder sometimes known as “the Godmother of AI,” has outlined “three fundamental principles for the future of AI policymaking” ahead of next week’s AI Action Summit in
Pixel Photonics receives €1M grant for multi-mode single photon detection Deeptech Pixel Photonics has received a grant of €1M from the German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) to further develop its waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (WI-SNSPDs) for multi-mode detection. Pixel Photonics is a company that develops single-photon
Natural hydrogen exploration startup Mantle8 raises €3.4m seed Mantle8, a French natural hydrogen exploration company, has raised a €3.4m seed round with investment from Kiko Ventures and Breakthrough Energy Ventures Europe (BEV-E), with participation from angel investors. The funds will be used run a pilot to image and quantify hydrogen
Y-Combinator-backed Model ML emerges from stealth with $12M funding AI fintech platform Model ML today emerged from stealth with $12 million in funding. Model ML is founded by brothers Chaz and Arnie Englander – serial entrepreneurs who transformed the sharing economy with Fat Llama (Hygglo) and instant delivery with Fancy
European Tech.eu Pulse: key trends and investment in January At Tech.eu we keep track of the investment landscape with data driven insights. Our Tech.eu Insiders enjoy unlimited, exclusive access to all our content, including market-intelligence analysis, reports, articles, and useful insights on tech trends and developments. But we know that
Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (Feb 03 – Feb 07) This article is visible for CLUB members only. If you are already a member but don’t see the content of this article, please login here. If you’re not a CLUB member
€946k for SWITCH to innovate urban mobility and logistics with AI Rome-based SWITCH, a startup that optimises fleet operations and planning with AI, announced a pre-Seed investment round of €946k to build smarter and more sustainable cities through fleet operations. The funding round, comprising a €728k equity investment and non-dilutive