Horizon Europe, EuroHPC, AI factories and the research base behind European tech. Coverage from Continental Brief.
Sitowise, a Nordic technical consulting company, has adopted Europe's LUMI supercomputer to dramatically speed up computational fire engineering work, cutting simulation times from weeks to days while improving design accuracy for large-scale construction projects.
The French artificial intelligence startup has secured €3 billion in fresh capital, valuing the company above €21 billion and establishing a new benchmark for European technology fundraising.
Finland's LUMI AI Factory will host LUMI-IQ, a superconducting quantum system built from the ground up for error-corrected logical qubits, arriving in stages through 2029.
EuroHPC JU has inaugurated Arrhenius, a mid-range supercomputer hosted at Linköping University in Sweden, capable of executing over 60 petaflops and ranking 42nd globally in computational power.
The French AI startup has closed its largest funding round, positioning itself as a sovereign alternative to US-dominated generative AI platforms. The investment reflects growing European appetite for control over AI infrastructure, not just data.
Advanced Engineering's Gram brand is leveraging high-performance computing through FFplus to cut development cycles for its transformable road and triathlon bikes.
Nvidia has agreed to purchase the open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, aiming to expand the developer community's access to AI tools and infrastructure.
The Finnish telecoms firm has launched a dedicated research centre in Saudi Arabia's capital to develop artificial intelligence solutions that enable self-managing communications networks.
Teams at the e-Governance Academy continue EU-backed cybersecurity projects in Ukraine despite constant Russian attacks, air raid alerts lasting up to 20 hours daily, and the psychological toll of living in an active war zone.
The digital identity firm has consolidated fragmented eIDAS certifications across five bodies into a single Conformity Assessment Body partnership, simplifying oversight after a string of acquisitions.
A new white paper co-authored by Estonia's former government CTO outlines how states must adapt their cybersecurity strategy as AI makes cyberattacks faster, cheaper and more accessible to non-state actors.