Europe
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AI SHIFT
Austrian voice AI startup FONIO.AI raises €14.5 million as business phone systems evolve into AI agents
For more than a century, the telephone remained one of the few professional interfaces to resist automation. Despite the rise…
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LIFE SCIENCES LOOP
France’s UNCOVR raises €6 million: after patient records, AI moves into the operating room
More than 400 million surgical procedures are performed worldwide every year. A growing proportion are filmed in their entirety. Yet…
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ROBOTIC LOOP
Germany’s NEURA ROBOTICS raises €1.2 billion: robotics becomes Europe’s new strategic bet
Humanoid robotics has crossed a new funding threshold in Europe. Germany’s Neura Robotics has announced a $1.4 billion funding round,…
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TRENDS
China is building the financial infrastructure of a post-dollar world
China is not seeking to dethrone the dollar, but it is trying to make its use less indispensable. For several…
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IN THE ARMY NOW
Finland’s ICEYE exceeds a €10 billion valuation: space-based intelligence becomes critical infrastructure
Last December, we examined how space-based radar imaging was becoming a matter of sovereignty for European states. Six months later,…
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AI SHIFT
British deeptech company PHYSICSX raises €255 million: the AI race expands into strategic infrastructure
The race for artificial intelligence is no longer confined to conversational models, software agents or improvements in knowledge-worker productivity. A…
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