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  • The Seoul Statement paves the way for European AI standards

    The butterfly effect is a well-known pillar in chaos theory and its premise that the simple flapping of a butterfly’s wings in China can cause hurricanes in Texas has had huge cultural influence. It is cited in any number of films including Back To The Future and, more poignantly for this article, AI’s favourite (and read more

    The Seoul Statement paves the way for European AI standards
  • Why Emmi AI spends €1,000 per person every month to bring its remote team together

    Emmi AI is an Austrian deep-tech company that builds AI-driven physics simulation technology to accelerate engineering processes in fields like Fluid Dynamics, Multiphysics, and Solid Mechanics. For a company doing this kind of work, how people collaborate matters as much as the tech itself. And it turns remote work on its head with its hybrid, read more

    Why Emmi AI spends €1,000 per person every month to bring its remote team together
  • MyDello receives €3.1M to support international expansion

    Tallinn-based logistics startup MyDello has raised €3.1 million in a funding round led by Icelandic venture capital firm Frumtak Ventures, with participation from existing investor Finnish early-stage venture capital firm Superhero Capital. Frumtak Ventures general partner Andri Heiðar Kristinsson and Jevgeni Kabanov, President of urban mobility company Bolt and a previous investor in MyDello, have read more

    MyDello receives €3.1M to support international expansion
  • Mindoo raises €5M for AI healthcare workforce platform

    The European platform for deploying safe and governed agentic workflows in healthcare, Mindoo, has secured €5 million in seed financing from 6DC, Syndicate One and a group of strategic angel investors. Healthcare organisations are increasingly balancing limited staffing with growing demand for care, leaving some workflows unfinished or not recorded because teams do not have read more

    Mindoo raises €5M for AI healthcare workforce platform
  • Jutro Medical extends Series A to €36M for AI-enabled primary care scale

    Warsaw-based Jutro Medical, an AI-first primary care operator combining online and in-person care, has raised €24 million in new funding led by Warsaw Equity Group, with participation from Vinci, naturalX Health Ventures, Fluent Ventures, Aternus, KAYA VC, and Inovo VC. The round also includes a debt component from mBank and Orbit Capital. The raise extends read more

    Jutro Medical extends Series A to €36M for AI-enabled primary care scale
  • Repurposed radiotherapy scans to guide prostate cancer treatment

    This supports the idea that predictive biomarkers for adaptive radiotherapy may not require new scans or technology, only better use of the data we already collect Zhuolin Yang University of Edinburgh scientists examined daily imaging data from 187 patients treated with prostate radiotherapy, using machine learning tools to identify links between radiomic features and the read more

    Repurposed radiotherapy scans to guide prostate cancer treatment
  • AI in breast cancer screening: From mammograms to personalised risk prediction

    AI for response prediction remains work in progress Dr Ritse Mann from Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands examined the role of AI for response prediction and diagnosis. He said that AI using images may improve pCR (pathologic complete response) prediction over prediction based on clinical features alone – ‘but the effect is modest.’ read more

    AI in breast cancer screening: From mammograms to personalised risk prediction
  • DoorDash driver faces felony charges after allegedly spraying customers’ food | TechCrunch

    A woman is facing felony charges in Evansville, Indiana over a DoorDash delivery in which she allegedly sprayed the food with a substance that made the customers vomit. In a press release, the Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office said that it was contacted on December 7 by a man who said that he and his wife read more

    DoorDash driver faces felony charges after allegedly spraying customers’ food | TechCrunch
  • PolyAI raises $86M

    London-based AI startup PolyAI has raised $86 million in a Series D funding round. The funding round in the AI assistant developer for call centres was co-led by existing investors Canadian B2B software investorGeorgian, London-based investor Hedosophia and US VC firm Khosla Ventures. Additional investors wereNVentures (Nvidia’s VC arm), Sands Capital, Squarepoint Ventures, Citi Ventures, read more

    PolyAI raises M
  • The rise of battery storage as an infrastructure asset

    As renewable generation expands and conventional baseload plants retire, electricity supply has become more volatile — amplifying price swings and increasing pressure on grid stability. Battery energy storage systems (BESS) address this imbalance by absorbing excess power when generation is high and discharging it when demand peaks. In doing so, they stabilise the grid, reduce read more

    The rise of battery storage as an infrastructure asset
  • Inside Ignite Next: the new scaleup program supercharging Europe’s deeptech

    Ignite Next today announced its launch as Europe’s new scaleup program for deep tech innovation, designed to bridge the gap between early-stage founders and industrial-scale success. Headquartered in Dresden, the heart of Silicon Saxony, and created by the team behind the renowned Intel Ignite program, now independently operated, Ignite Next introduces a new collaborative model read more

    Inside Ignite Next: the new scaleup program supercharging Europe’s deeptech
  • Lean Operations for Fragmented Middleware: A New Model

    Most organisations do not wake up one morning and decide to overhaul how they manage messaging and streaming. The shift usually begins with something far less glamorous. A delayed release because a queue was not provisioned on time. A compliance reviewer asking for audit evidence that takes days to assemble. Or a capacity scare on read more

    Lean Operations for Fragmented Middleware: A New Model
  • MD One Ventures and Randox launch security and biotech accelerator for national resilience

    Europe’s first National Security VC firm, MD One Ventures and Randox, a global diagnostics and healthcare company from the UK and Ireland, today announce the launch of Randox for Builders, a security and biotech incubator and accelerator. Randox for Builders gives early-stage companies the funding and hands-on support they need to grow faster. At its read more

    MD One Ventures and Randox launch security and biotech accelerator for national resilience
  • IVFmicro raises £3.5M to make IVF treatment accessible for all

    IVFmicro, a University of Leeds spinout developing technology intended to improve IVF outcomes by increasing the quality and number of embryos produced per cycle, has raised £3.5 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Northern Gritstone, with support from the Innovate UK Investor Partnerships Programme. An estimated 1 in 6 couples globally experience read more

    IVFmicro raises £3.5M to make IVF treatment accessible for all
  • Quantum Systems and Frontline Robotics set up Europe’s first foreign drone production line for Ukraine

    Quantum Systems and Frontline Robotics today announced the creation of “Quantum Frontline Industries” (QFI), a German-Ukrainian joint venture that will establish Europe’s first fully automated, industrial-scale foreign production line for drones for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Under the Build with Ukraine initiative, the new venture will mass-produce battlefield-proven multi-use drones developed by the Ukrainian company read more

    Quantum Systems and Frontline Robotics set up Europe’s first foreign drone production line for Ukraine
  • Soverli raises $2.6M to develop sovereign smartphone architecture

    Zurich-based cybersecurity company Soverli has raised $2.6 million in pre-seed funding to develop a sovereign smartphone architecture designed to operate alongside Android and iOS for OEMs, enterprises, governments, and consumers. The round was led by Founderful, with participation from the ETH Zurich Foundation, Venture Kick, and cybersecurity industry figures. Based on more than four years read more

    Soverli raises .6M to develop sovereign smartphone architecture
  • QuantumDiamonds invests over €150M for quantum chip inspection facility

    German quantum sensing company QuantumDiamonds GmbH has announced an investment of more than €150 million to establish a production facility for quantum-based chip metrology systems. The facility, planned for eastern Munich, is expected to receive significant public support from the German federal and Bavarian governments under the European Chips Act. QuantumDiamonds, a spin-off from the read more

    QuantumDiamonds invests over €150M for quantum chip inspection facility
  • South Africa: Western Cape Urges Compliance With Water Restrictions – South African News Briefs – December 15, 2025

    Western Cape Govt Urges Compliance With Water Restrictions The Western Cape government has imposed water restrictions across the province to curb potential shortages during the hot, dry summer months, reports EWN. S everal towns identified as high risk for water insecurity. Provincial authorities are closely monitoring the situation, with level six restrictions implemented in Dysselsdorp read more

    South Africa: Western Cape Urges Compliance With Water Restrictions – South African News Briefs – December 15, 2025
  • FFR-CT: AI tool predicts heart attack risk in angina patients

    Adding to its diagnostic abilities, this study is the first to provide conclusive evidence of FFR-CT’s prognostic power, independent of other risk factors Timothy Fairbairn An artificial intelligence-based tool has been developed that analyses CCTA images and provides an estimate of blood flow, termed CT-derived fractional flow reserve (FFR-CT). The real-world, retrospective, nationwide FISH&CHIPS study read more

    FFR-CT: AI tool predicts heart attack risk in angina patients
  • Photographer locked eyes with gunman, as witness describes Bondi warzone

    Messages were sweeping across Sydney within minutes of the attack at Bondi Beach. Parents messaged their children and teenagers, who had been enjoying a late afternoon swim at Bondi. Witnesses said police were on the scene quickly, and the streets of Sydney’s eastern suburbs were full of police cars and ambulances on their way to read more

    Photographer locked eyes with gunman, as witness describes Bondi warzone