Good news from around Europe
The call centre enters the voice AI era In March, Tech.eu reported on the story of “Rachel,” an AI voice agent created by AI engineer Matt Cortland to call more than 3,000 pubs across Ireland and ask a simple question: how much does a pint of Guinness cost? Using voice
Bliq.ai wins approval for fully driverless road operations in Estonia Driverless car startup Bliq.ai this week announced that it has received approval to operate its vehicles on public roads in Estonia without a driver behind the wheel. The approval marks the first authorisation of its kind in an EU member
Alice & Bob expands Series B with investment from NVIDIA’s venture arm French fault-tolerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob has raised investment from NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm, that expands its €100 million Series B round. The investment supports Alice & Bob’s development of an architecture towards fault-tolerant
REPS raises $23.6M to turn roads into power plants by harvesting energy from traffic Tyrol energy generation startup REPS today announced a $23.6 million equity financing round to scale its Road Energy Production System, a patented “road power plant” that converts vehicle traffic into electrical energy. Its core product is
Smart ring maker Oura files for IPO in New York Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/smart-ring-maker-oura-files-for-ipo-in-new-york
100+ companies the €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund could back Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/scale-up-fund-companies
European legaltech mapped: 60+ startups evolving how legal work gets done Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/legal-tech-mapped
The top investors behind Sifted’s Southern Europe 2026 leaderboard Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/the-top-investors-behind-sifteds-southern-europe-2026-leaderboard
The EU is rapidly rewriting the AI Act. What’s changed? Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/eu-ai-act-latest-changes-explained
AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/ai-is-being-used-to-resurrect-the-voices-of-dead-pilots/