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, 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].

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 European space mission, AI-generated podcasts, antiquated tech in German trains, and much more. 

In the interview section, we’re featuring a conversation with Oscar Kneppers, CEO of the Amsterdam Centre for Entrepreneurship, or ACE. He’s also founded several well-known local publications and one of the country’s major startup accelerators, Rockstart. 

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

•  ESA embarks on world-first mission to detect ripples in the fabric of space-time
• Spotify and Palantir alumni raise $3m for AI audio platform
• [Deutsche] Bahn: Administrator for Windows 3.11 wanted

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 Europeans in space, laser weapons of the future, embodied cognition, functional programming languages, and more!

In the interview section, we’re featuring a conversation with Ton van 't Noordende, Managing Director at QDNL Participations and Architect at InfinityQD. We’ll talk about the quantum computing ecosystem in the Netherlands and globally, its challenges and prospects, and everything in between.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• First commercial crew of all-European astronauts launches to International Space Station 
• Opinion: Why Europe is lagging behind in the spacetech race
•  Advanced future military laser achieves UK first 
•  Delhi metro works on Haskell!

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, Andrii and Linnea talk about the benefits of having a domestic android, micromobility consolidation news in Europe, Elon Musk and Diablo IV, the randomness of coin tosses, and much more. 

In the interview section, we’re featuring a conversation with Anton Volovyk, co-CEO at Reface and a speaker at the upcoming TNW Conference. Reface is a Ukrainian scale-up launched in 2020, which has made it through the pandemic and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, raising a few million dollars from investors like a16z along the way. 

If you want to hear even more from Anton, make use of the special offer we've got for the listeners of this podcast. You can use the code TNWXMEDIA to get 30% off your business pass today!

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

•  Domestic humanoid backed by OpenAI closer to market after $100M raise
• Scooter startups Tier and Dott agree to merge
• Deal Dive: Tier and Dott’s merger is not a sign of what’s to come in M&A this year
• Scientists Destroy Illusion That Coin Toss Flips Are 50–50
•  Coin Tossing Marathon (4th of December 2022)

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, Andrii is joined by Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, co-founder, member of the board, and former CEO of TNW. The topics discussed include the jobs created by Dutch startups, giant state funding for energy projects, translations of the word ‘computer’, and a bunch of other things in between. 

In the interview section, we’re featuring a conversation with Cal Henderson, co-founder and CTO at Slack and an investor in firstminute’s third fund.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• Dutch startups created 151K jobs in the Netherlands in 2023
• The Commission has approved a €2.9 billion French State aid scheme for supporting investment in green industries
• Commission approves €902 million German State aid measure to support Northvolt
• 52 Interesting Things I Learned in 2023
• Apple Vision Pro

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

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

In this bonus episode of the TNW Podcast, we’re featuring an interview with Tomas Hrozensky, Senior Researcher and Lead on European Engagement at the European Space Policy Institute.

We discussed how space policy actually works (and whether it works at all), what to expect from the EU space law that's being developed as we speak, and much more.

Music and sound engineering for this podcast is 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 brain-computer interfaces, autonomous cars in the UK, cybersecurity safewords, Benford’s law — and many things in between. 

In the interview section, we’re featuring a conversation with Marjut Falkstedt, the Chief Executive at the European Investment Fund.

Here are the stories mentioned in the episode:

• Tech to transform human-machine interaction with brain data wins €30M 
• Self-driving cars could be on UK roads by 2026 — minister
• Numbers by Radiolab

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

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

In this bonus episode of the TNW Podcast, we're featuring two interviews with notable European VC players:

• Kinga Stanislawska, founder of European Women in VC and co-founder Experior VC. We talked about the state of diversity in European VC, the issues we're facing, and the potential ways to solve them.
• Sten Tamkivi, partner at Plural Platform. We discussed his vision of the European VC landscape, as well as some predictions for 2024.

Listen to the episode with the player above — or, better still, find us on your favourite podcast platform and subscribe!

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

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

In today’s episode, Andrii and Linnea talk about what happens when generative AI hallucinations start to concern European politics, the big deal between OpenAI and Axel Springer, similarities between the industries of computer chips and tampons, and much more.

In the interview section, we’re featuring a conversation with Erika Cheung, a Theranos whistleblower who’s now working on bringing ethics and responsibility to entrepreneurship.

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

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

Let's talk about femtech in Europe. In this bonus episode of the TNW Podcast, we're featuring two interviews with notable players in the industry:

• Ida Tin, co-founder and chairwoman of the period tracking app Clue — and the very person who coined the term 'femtech' itself.
• Valentina Milanova, founder and CEO of Daye, a gynaecological health startup based in the UK.

Listen to the episode with the player above — or, better still, find us on your favourite podcast platform and subscribe!

Let us know how we did and get a chance to win a ticket to the TNW Conference 2024! Fill out the form here: https://tnw.typeform.com/to/VnX8cjg3 (We'll announce the winner in the next 'normal' episode on December 20.)