The UK and Germany are emerging as key hubs for a new wave of AI defence startups, as Europe scrambles to rearm amid rising geopolitical tensions. Investors have funnelled a record $4.3 billion into the sector since the start of 2022, nearly four times the funds deployed in the
Italian defence company Leonardo unveiled on 27 November 2025 an AI-powered integrated defence system called Michelangelo Dome, designed to protect critical infrastructure and urban areas amid rising geopolitical tensions. The company targets full operational capability by the end of the decade. Leonardo's shares rose approximately 77% since January
In October 2025, the European Commission announced two major strategies – the “Apply AI Strategy” and the “AI in Science Strategy” – intended to speed the deployment of artificial intelligence across Europe’s key industrial sectors and scientific research community. The Apply AI Strategy is designed to promote AI adoption in strategic
The German company DeepL, previously best known for its AI-based translation services, announced on 3 September 2025 the launch of DeepL Agent, an AI agent designed specifically for enterprise users. The newly introduced product is capable of automating repetitive, time-consuming corporate tasks and, by responding to natural language commands, can
Spain-based Multiverse Computing unveiled two extremely small yet high-performing AI models on August 14, 2025, which they humorously categorised into a Model Zoo family because they're comparable in size to a fly's and chicken's brain. The company's SuperFly model contains just 94
The European Commission has recently unveiled new artificial intelligence tools and features on its AI-on-Demand platform, offering an AI marketplace, a low-code development tool, and secure solutions for generative AI and large language models. The platform, developed jointly by the EU-funded projects AI4Europe and DeployAI, provides trustworthy AI tools and
In March 2023, Amsterdam launched a €4.2 million ethically designed AI system to detect welfare fraud that developers claimed would be one of the world's fairest algorithmic systems, but in May 2025, the city council suspended the program after it was revealed to still discriminate against residents
The European Commission has detailed a €20 billion (£17 billion) plan to create new AI gigafactories in Europe for developing next-generation artificial intelligence models. These facilities will be powered by up to 100,000 advanced AI processors and target significant innovations in healthcare, biotech, industry, robotics, and scientific discovery. The
On 9 April 2025, the European Commission unveiled the AI Continent Action Plan, aimed at revitalising Europe’s artificial intelligence industry and enhancing its competitiveness against the United States and China. The plan focuses on five key areas, including developing a large-scale AI computing infrastructure, increasing access to high-quality data,
The European Parliament and Council adopted Regulation (EU) 2025/327 on the European Health Data Space (EHDS) on 11 February 2025, which was subsequently published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 5 March 2025. This regulation transforms the use of health data across the EU, establishing the
EuroBERT, the newly developed multilingual encoder model family, marks a significant advancement in modern language technology. It enables more efficient processing of 15 European and global languages, handling sequences of up to 8,192 tokens. Officially introduced on 10 March 2025, the EuroBERT family was trained on a dataset of
On 6 March 2025, Mistral AI unveiled Mistral OCR, an advanced document interpretation API that offers processing of 1,000 pages for $1, surpassing competitors with an impressive accuracy rate of 94.89%. The service is capable of interpreting complex documents, including images, tables, and mathematical formulas, while preserving the
