Good news from around Europe
The Fourth Law and Odd Systems launch Project Foundation to quadruple European thermal sensor production The Fourth Law and Odd Systems today unveiled Project Foundation, a semiconductor initiative to mass-produce uncooled thermal sensors in Europe and the United States. The project aims to expand European thermal sensor production to four
UK to ease non-compete clauses, marking boon for startups and scaleups The UK prime minister today confirmed that the UK plans to ease restrictive non-compete clauses in workers’ employment contracts, which could include banning them, marking a boon for the UK startup sector. Speaking at the Innovation Nation Summit in
Nvidia defends open source AI alliance, saying hundreds and hundreds of companies being vetted Nvidia has defended a coalition created to develop and share tools for AI safety and cyber defence and avoid a repeat of the OpenAI Hugging Face hack, when questioned that participants would sidestep it in an
Spanish Autentic AI raises €1.5M to accelerate AI-powered market research Autentic AI has raised €1.5 million in pre-seed funding from venture capital firms Baobab Ventures, Lanai Ventures, Acurio Ventures and Masia VC. Founded by Dani Diestre, Aniol Carreras and Jacob Bamio, Autentic AI has developed a platform that uses artificial
Report: Mistral and others increasingly at risk of open model ‘abliteration’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/report-open-model-abliteration-ai-safety/
LPs’ red flags Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/lps-red-flags/
Revolut to roll out agentic shopping as AI commerce takes off Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/revolut-agentic-shopping/
UK looks to ban non-competes to stop ‘drag on innovation’ Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/uk-to-ban-non-competes-to-stop-drag-on-innovation/
Ex-OpenAI robotics lead’s factory startup in insolvency proceedings Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/ex-openai-robotics-leads-factory-startup-in-insolvency-proceedings/
Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead Anthropic said it “turned off live internet access” for “all our internal evaluations” until further notice. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/anthropic-cant-reliably-control-its-ai-agents-its-cutting-off-its-internal-evals-from-the-live-internet-instead/