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UK and Germany Emerge as Leading Hubs for Billion-Dollar AI Defence Startups

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

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Leonardo Unveils Michelangelo Dome: AI-Powered System for European Defense

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

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Commission Launches Two Strategies to Accelerate AI Uptake in European Industry and Science

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

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DeepL’s New AI Agent Focuses on Automating Corporate Routine Processes and Enhancing Data Security

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

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A New Milestone in Efficiency: Multiverse Computing Launches Ultracompact Yet Powerful AI Models

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

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European Commission Launches New AI Platform for Researchers and Industry

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

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The Bias in AI: Why Did the Amsterdam Algorithm Fail?

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

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European AI Gigafactories: €20 Billion Race for Technological Advancement

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

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Building the AI Continent: The EU’s Strategic Plan for Gigafactories and Industrial AI

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,

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The Milestones of the European Health Data Space Regulation

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

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EuroBERT: A Next-Generation Multilingual Encoder Model Family for Language Technology

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

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Mistral OCR: Optical Character Recognition API for Document Processing

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

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Mistral Unveils Its Enhanced Small 3.1 Multimodal Model

Released on 17 March 2025 under the Apache 2.0 licence, Mistral’s Small 3.1 model marks a significant advancement in artificial intelligence technology. This 24-billion-parameter model delivers improved text generation performance, enhanced multimodal capabilities, and an expanded context window of 128,000 tokens, while maintaining an inference speed

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EuroStack: the EU's Digital Sovereignty Strategy

The European Union launched the EuroStack initiative on 13th February 2025, offering a comprehensive €300 billion strategy to establish Europe's digital independence over the next decade. The plan addresses the critical situation in which more than 80% of Europe's digital infrastructure and technologies come from imports,

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New European Research Centre: Developing Artificial Intelligence Based on the CERN Model

According to the plan unveiled in January by the Centre for Future Generations research institute, a €35 billion initial investment would create an international research centre for European artificial intelligence development. In line with former ECB President Mario Draghi's comprehensive technology report, the proposal suggests establishing an institution

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Google Forms Strategic AI Partnership with Poland

Google and the Polish government signed a strategic partnership agreement on February 13, 2025, to develop artificial intelligence, primarily focusing on energy and cybersecurity. The agreement includes a $5 million training program to develop the digital skills of one million Polish citizens over the next five years. Google is already

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France's Response to the AI Race: Emmanuel Macron Announces €109 Billion AI Investment Package

Emmanuel Macron, the French President, announced a €109 billion (£112.5 billion) private sector investment package for artificial intelligence development in France. The announcement came ahead of the Paris AI summit beginning on February 10, 2025, attended by world leaders and technology industry players. The initiative aims to help Europe