EU're Gonna Love This

Sweden is getting a lot of love and praise in the tech space. How successful is it? And what is driving that success?

Also, the EU AI Act is a hot topic again after all the hacking scandals of the past couple of months. How are things looking there?

Hugging Face is being acquired by Nvidia for nearly $13B, and Mistral just secured a new funding round of €3B. Both have French founders, but one company is actually American. What are the drivers and differences in their success?

AI is massively transforming the way the internet works and the types and quality of information we get. What's happening and why does it feel like so much of what we're seeing is worse?

Shortly after the news about OpenAI's hacking issues, Anthropic and others followed up with their own announcements. What's happened and should people be worried?

We also look at the new AI slop reporting feature on LinkedIn and dive into the big question - how hard is it to start a business in Europe?

This week we've got a newsbag covering some of the biggest tech news you may have missed plus two deep dives. The first is all about prediction markets and the wave of bans they're facing in Europe. The second is about a Dutch tech startup called Monumental that is leveraging AI to build robots that lay bricks, build houses, and more. 

Apple is blaming the EU for preventing SiriAI from coming to Europe. 

Plus, we're covering two startups taking the world of agentic AI and worflows by storm: Dust and N8N. 

This week we're looking at two stories:

1) The opposition to data centers in the US versus the lack thereof in Europe.

2) The Dutch government banning the sale of a tech company to an American buyer.

This week we're looking at the Elon vs OpenAI lawsuit and the pricing changes coming to AI tools. 

Three main stories this week:

Google has been running some controversial experiments on headlines that have big implications for the broader internet. 

Meta has lost some major lawsuits in the US that could transform social media. 

There's a Dutch company that is driving growth in movie theater attendance at a time when it is dropping in most other places. 

OpenClaw has gotten a lot of hype, and the Austrian man who created it just got hired by OpenAI. He had some hot takes on everything wrong with Europe, but most of what he's claiming isn't adding up. 

Also, we do a deep dive into how we do research for the show and where AI tools help.