TNW Podcast

Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry.

In today’s episode, Ioanna and Andrii talk about the jumbo funding round for Mistral, how AI is impacting copywriters, and also — which TNW Conference sessions we’re looking forward to. 

The guest of the show is Crijn Bouman, CEO and co-founder of Rocsys — a company that’s building hands-free charging solutions for electric vehicles. That involves a lot of robotics and AI, and we’ll talk about all of it in detail.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• French AI darling Mistral reportedly almost triples valuation to €5.8B
• AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human
• AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway
• June 20, Vision stage: Deep Tech Trends: What Can We Expect by 2030
• June 21, Growth Quarters stage: The Period(ic) Table: An Algorithm for Natural Birth Control

Music and sound engineering for this podcast are by Sound Pulse.

Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected].

Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry.

In today’s episode, Ioanna and Andrii talk about some of the latest developments in the Dutch and European chips industry, Danish media and OpenAI, our spatial navigation skills, Chinese internet disappearing, and much more.

The guest of the show is Zach Butler, Director of Events at TNW, to discuss the upcoming TNW Conference and everything around it, as well as get an impression of what happens behind the scenes.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• ASML’s new lab opens up access to its most advanced chipmaking machine
• Dutch chip giant NXP plans $7.8B plant in Singapore amid tensions with China
• Danish Media Threatens to Sue OpenAI
• Scientists Reveal Promising Way to Stave Off Cognitive Decline
• Goldfish Memories
•  Report: The Netherlands is the leading startup ecosystem in the EU 
• Conference highlights: master classes, Extreme Tech Challenge, DEI lounge, KPMG x TNW Karaoke Cruise
• What comes next: VDS, October 23—24; Future of AI, November 6—7

Music and sound engineering for this podcast are by Sound Pulse.

Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected].

Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry.

In today’s episode, Ioanna and Andrii talk about critical minerals from Australia, the new AI Office, asteroids on Mars, a washing machine chime dispute, and more.

The guest of the show is Henrik Green, General Manager Autonomous Technology at Einride, a self-driving truck scale-up based in Sweden.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• EU, Australia strike critical minerals supply deal amid tech rivalry with China
• With the EU AI Act incoming this summer, the bloc lays out its plan for AI governance
• Mars is more prone to devastating asteroid impacts than we thought, new study hints
• Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get

Music and sound engineering for this podcast are by Sound Pulse.

Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected].

In today’s episode, Ioanna and Andrii talk about AI translation news, the early demise of Spotify's Car Thing, Chinese LLMs, and much more.

The guest of the show is Marta Krupinska, CEO and co-founder of CUR8, a market-maker platform for carbon removals.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• AI translation unicorn DeepL reaches $2B valuation with new $300M investment
• “Unacceptable”: Spotify bricking Car Thing devices in Dec. without refunds
• How Long Does it Take to Become Proficient in a Language?
• The Hardest Languages In The World To Learn
• China’s latest answer to OpenAI is ‘Chat Xi PT’

Music and sound engineering for this podcast are by Sound Pulse.

Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected].

In today’s episode, Linnea and Andrii talk about multilingual LLMs, Raspberry Pi, OpenAI and Scarlett Johansson, AI-written essays, and more.

The guest of the show is Peter Garraghan, CEO and co-founder at Mindgard. We discuss the questions of security of generative AI, potential attacks on it, and what businesses can do today to be at least reasonably safe.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• LLMs ‘for all official EU languages’ on horizon for Finnish startup
• Europe, meet Claude: Anthropic’s ChatGPT rival finally available in the EU
• Raspberry Pi considering London stock market float
• Scarlett Johansson says OpenAI ripped off her voice after she told the company not to use it in software
• r/OpenAI: Sky has left the chat
• Do teachers spot AI? Evaluating the detectability of AI-generated texts among student essays

Music and sound engineering for this podcast are by Sound Pulse.

Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected].

In today’s episode, Linnea and Siôn talk about a massive investor vote of confidence for self-driving AI tech, the UK joining the EU-led supercomputer project, the first ever CGI in cinema, and the sun's cycles, prompted by the incredible display or aurora the past week.

The guest of the show is Jānis Pūtrams, CTO and co-founder at Aerones, a robotic wind turbine care systems startup from Latvia.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• UK’s Wayve raises $1B in Europe’s largest ever AI funding round
• UK joins European super-computing scheme as world-class British researchers now able to bid for funding
• Watch: first-ever CGI character interacting with a real-life actor
• Dazzling auroras are just a warm-up
• Bonus: EU’s JEDI supercomputer most energy efficient HPC system in the world

Music and sound engineering for this podcast are by Sound Pulse.

Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected].

Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry.

In today’s episode, Linnea and Andrii talk about protein powder and carbon capture, Europe’s potential answer to Starlink, Disney’s R&D department, how many browser tabs you can keep open, and more.

The guest of the show is Peter Sarlin, CEO and founder at Silo AI. He has some strong opinions on the European AI ecosystem and its future, which we discussed in detail — together with the work Silo AI is doing on the so-called low-resource languages.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• This startup is using protein powder to beef up carbon capture
• Europe’s ambitious satellite Internet project appears to be running into trouble
• Watch: I Tried a Disney Secret Project!
• Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

Music and sound engineering for this podcast are by Sound Pulse.

Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected].

In today’s episode, Linnea and Andrii talk about the availability of AI compute, Getir’s imminent departure from Europe, quite some cash for German game developers, and a few things in between. 

The guest of the show is Alexandra Balkova, general partner and head of portfolio at Startup Wise Guys. In the interview recorded at TechChill in Riga, Alexandra talked about the current state of the VC industry, Ukrainian startups, defence tech, and much more. 

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• Paris startup adds 'universal compute' weapon to France's growing AI arsenal
• Getir is exiting Europe and closing Gorillas as fast grocery delivery feels the chill
  • Getir ends European expansion with 1,500 UK job losses expected
• Germany wants to develop games on Baldur’s Gate 3 level

Music and sound engineering for this podcast are by Sound Pulse.

Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected].

In today’s episode, Ioanna and Andrii talk about the potentially good news about ASML’s future in the Netherlands, the latest developments at Stability AI, carbon capture solutions, and much more.

The guest of the show is Sebastian Aristotelis, whose title is co-founder and Lead Architect at SAGA Space Architects, a Danish company that is building human habitats to use on other planets.  

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• Chip giant ASML plans Eindhoven expansion in big win for Dutch tech
• AI startup Stability lays off 10% of staff after controversial CEO's exit
• Stable Diffusion 3 API Now Available
• Europe baked in ‘extreme heat stress’ pushing temperatures to record highs
• 3 carbon capture technologies you’ve probably never heard of

Music and sound engineering for this podcast are by Sound Pulse.

Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected].

In today’s episode, Linnea and Andrii talk about artificial general intelligence, repairable airbuds, some Wolverine nerdery, drone delivery adoption, and much more. 

The guest of the show is Caroline Viarouge, CEO at EIT Manufacturing. A big part of the conversation focused on the cooperation between the UK and the EU when it comes to research and innovation.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• Meta's AI chief: LLMs will never reach human-level intelligence
• Fairphone Fairbuds 
• Bonus link: Andrii disassembles and assembles the Fairphone 2

Music and sound engineering for this podcast are by Sound Pulse.

Feel free to email us with any questions, suggestions, and opinions at [email protected].