TNW Podcast

In today’s episode, Linnea and Andrii talk about a promising quantum breakthrough, a public funding disaster in Poland, the first Macintosh in Europe, and much more.

The guest of the show is Jean-David Malo, Director of the Executive Agency for EIC and SMEs (EISMEA). It’s a long title — but you’ll understand every bit of it if you listen to the conversation. 

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• Quantinuum, Microsoft claim to have quieted quantum computing 'noise'
• Why Polish founders are being forced to return millions in public grant money 
• Mac at 30 

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 flying cars, unexpected effects of climate change, espresso origins, and real-life invisibility shields. 

The guest of the show is Svilen Rangelov, co-founder and CEO of Dronamics, a Bulgarian scale-up that’s working on long-distance drone transportation with remote piloting.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• Flying cars edge towards takeoff after Chinese production deal
• Melting of polar ice having effect on global timekeeping, research shows
• Invisibility Shield 2.0
• The History Of Espresso Machines

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, Tom (!), and Andrii talk about Ukrainian startups, drones, information security, European quantum landscape, reverse brain drain, and a lot more. 

The guest of the show is Michiel Scheffer, President of the Board of the European Innovation Council. 

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• Hidden racial slurs are flooding across Russian media, AI reveals
• European Declaration on Quantum Technologies
• Why tech talent is flocking to Europe

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, Andrii and Linnea talk about a new supercomputer in Denmark, the situation at Stability AI, the way our brain constructs reality, ChatGPT in scientific papers, and more. 

The guests of the show are Tanguy Goretti and Adrien Roose, co-founders of the Belgian-born ebike startup Cowboy. 

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• Denmark is building an Nvidia AI supercomputer
• Key Stable Diffusion researchers leave Stability AI as company flounders
• This startup is building AI that can fly drones and make its own decisions
• Scientific journals are publishing papers with AI-generated text
• Urban mobility leader Cowboy launches Cross, first all-road ebike model 

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, Andrii and Linnea talk about the ‘Operation Beethoven’ by the Dutch government, founders’ mental health, some Dune: Part Two trivia, world’s oldest actively developed web browser, and more.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• Dutch government launched secret task force to keep ASML in Netherlands, report says
• 49% of founders say they’re considering quitting their startup this year
• Stellan Skarsgård would rather sit for 8 hours naked in the makeup chair than do CGI
• The oldest web browser that's still being developed

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, Andrii and Ioanna talk about the benefits of walking, progressive web apps, unhealthy food, and physical controls in cars in the EU. 

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• Doctors have started prescribing a new medical treatment: A walking app
• Apple reverses decision about blocking web apps on iPhones in the EU
• European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls
• Ultra-processed foods linked to heart disease, cancer, and 30 other health conditions (and the paper itself)

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, Andrii and Ioanna talk about multilingual LLMs, the latest news from Mistral AI, some boardroom drama, language learning theories, and a few things in between.

The guest of the show is Zeynep Yavuz, partner at global venture firm General Catalyst, taking about her view of European fintech, the most important trends that drive the VC industry, and much more.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• AI model Poro sets new milestones for multilingual LLMs in Europe
• Mistral releases new 'top-tier' AI model, partners with Microsoft
• How Klarna’s boardroom spat exposed a schism at Sequoia Capital
• Theories of Language Acquisition: Differences & Examples

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, Andrii and Linnea talk about AI safety, Europe regulating Big Tech (but not quite), snowmobile emissions, and the cost of chatbot hallucinations.

The guest of the show is Gerard Grech, managing director of Founders at the University of Cambridge — and the founding chief executive of Tech Nation in the UK.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• AI chip tags can fight espionage from hostile states, report says
• Apple won’t be forced to open up iMessage by EU
• Apple, Microsoft partly exempted from EU Digital Markets Act
• Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
• Traditional snowmobiles can emit a whole lot of hydrocarbon pollutants and greenhouse gases

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, Andrii and Linnea talk about deepfake face swapping, the incredible race of Arm’s stock price, epilepsy trolling, and learn more about how much startup founders are paying themselves across Europe.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in this episode:

• Deepfake ‘face swap’ attacks surged 704% last year, study finds 
• Taylor Swift deepfake porn deluge a ‘wake-up call’ for lawmakers
• Arm Holdings jumps over 40%, adds to staggering AI-powered rally
• Is Arm really an AI stock?
• The Everything Blueprint: The Microchip Design that Changed the World
• Cyberflashing and epilepsy-trolling offenders to face prison in UK 
• Founder Compensation 2.0

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, Andrii and Linnea talk about the AI Act, the leak of Mistral’s surprisingly powerful large language model, European supercomputer chips, and more. 

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• EU member states approve world-first AI law
• Mistral CEO confirms ‘leak’ of new open source AI model nearing GPT-4 performance
• Robot trained to read braille at twice the speed of humans
• Europe is getting a homegrown microprocessor for supercomputers, built by SiPearl

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].