Good news from around Europe
Open AI closes the gap as Europe bets on sovereignty and infrastructure Mozilla’s latest State of Open Source AI report argues that open-source and open-weight AI have moved beyond experimentation and become a significant part of the global AI ecosystem, driven by rapidly improving capabilities, lower costs, and greater control
Arcos secures €5.5M to protect critical infrastructure from physical threats German security technology company Arcos has raised €5.5 million in seed funding to expand its platform for monitoring and responding to security incidents across critical infrastructure and other physical sites. The round included High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Bayern Kapital, Pact, Haufe,
UK Sovereign AI Fund in talks to back £500m raise for drug discovery startup Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/uk-sovereign-ai-fund-in-talks-to-back-500m-raise-for-drug-discovery-startup/
The biggest conversations in US VC right now Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/us-vc-conversations-ai-anthropic-agents/
‘It’s the modern nuclear arms race’: safety expert Denis Shilov on slowing down AI Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/denis-shilov-white-circle-ai-safety/
Inside London’s weirdest neolab Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/inside-londons-weirdest-neolab/
India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/india-forces-caller-id-apps-to-feed-spam-reports-to-telcos/
Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/tilly-norwoods-press-tour-is-going-about-as-well-as-youd-expect-for-an-ai/
A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/a-startup-that-builds-other-startups-raised-100m-and-is-all-in-on-physical-ai/
Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/anthropic-is-operating-a-lab-that-conducts-biology-experiments/