Enterprise
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The $100m bet on heterogeneous AI
London-based Callosum has raised $100m to build software that routes AI work across different models and processor architectures according to cost, latency, energy use, and performance.
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UK tests the cost of AI dependence
Whitehall is assessing the economic and security consequences of losing access to frontier AI models after a US export-control episode demonstrated how foreign policy can interrupt advanced software capability.
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Zagreb robotaxis enter Uber’s mainstream app
Uber users in Zagreb can now be matched with Pony.ai autonomous vehicles operated by Verne, putting an existing Croatian robotaxi deployment into a mainstream European ride-hailing marketplace.
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Spain’s AI gigafactory consortium clears Brussels
Brussels has cleared a Spanish data-centre venture involving ACS, Telefónica, Santander, and state-backed SETT as public and private capital assemble around Europe’s planned AI gigafactories.
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Cyber insurance moves closer to defence
Munich Re is buying At-Bay for $575m, bringing insurance, continuous security monitoring, threat data, and claims closer together as cyber underwriting becomes a more active risk-management business.
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Optical chips target AI’s networking bottleneck
Swedish photonics startup Solinide has raised €4m to commercialise silicon nitride technology designed to move more data between AI processors without multiplying lasers, hardware, and electricity demand.
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AI lowers the barrier to industrial attacks
US agencies say attackers are using AI-assisted scripts against Siemens industrial controllers, accelerating exploitation of exposed devices, weak credentials, poor segmentation, and outdated systems.
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AI security becomes a systems integration market
NTT Data and Palo Alto Networks are expanding their alliance around AI governance, identity, cloud, security operations, and managed services, targeting $1bn in joint business by 2029.
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Europe’s humanoid race reaches the factory
Germany’s engineering industry wants Europe to build a domestic humanoid robotics supply chain as Chinese manufacturers pull ahead in shipments, production capacity, and commercial scale.
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Advania puts governance above the AI model
Advania has launched an AI layer spanning seven European markets, separating model choice from the governance, security, cost controls, and data requirements needed to put enterprise AI into production.
