Growth
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Quantum scaling reaches the laser production line
An EU-backed project led by Finland’s Vexlum has automated parts of semiconductor laser manufacturing as quantum hardware moves towards repeatable industrial production.
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Huntress takes European expansion through the channel
Huntress will use ALSO’s distribution infrastructure to reach resellers and managed service providers across 31 European countries.
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Ireland opens €40m technology funding round
Ireland has opened applications for €40 million of collaborative technology funding aimed at moving research towards commercial deployment.
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AI inference economics drive Nebius acquisition
Nebius has bought Inferize as cloud providers turn software efficiency into another lever on expensive GPU infrastructure.
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CoreWeave moves beyond the GPU layer
CoreWeave is expanding beyond GPU rental with its Forge platform, combining inference, observability, evaluation, and training as specialist AI clouds compete with hyperscalers higher up the software stack.
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Onomondo raises €100m-plus for IoT infrastructure
Aspirity Partners will take a majority stake in Copenhagen-based Onomondo through a €100m-plus investment as industrial IoT connectivity moves beyond roaming agreements towards software-controlled network infrastructure.
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Agentic AI runs into the legacy stack
HCLSoftware plans to acquire Zagreb-based Robotiq.ai, bringing robotic process automation into its agentic AI platform so software agents can operate enterprise applications that lack usable APIs.
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Europe’s digital research gap reaches the market
A Commission study finds Europe retains substantial digital research capacity but is losing ground in research excellence and patents while struggling to convert technical work into market-scale businesses.
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Riverlane and Infleqtion deepen quantum error correction
Infleqtion and Riverlane plan deeper integration between neutral-atom hardware and real-time quantum error correction as the engineering race shifts towards reliable logical qubits.
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ProLogium moves Dunkirk plant into construction
ProLogium says its planned Dunkirk battery gigafactory is moving from preparatory work into coordinated site execution, with grid connection, supplier localisation, and workforce development advancing.
