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• Amsterdam’s Orquesta raises €800,000 for no-code LLM gateway

  02-10-2023 17:39 via thenextweb.com
  
  Amsterdam-based startup Orquesta today announced an oversubscribed €800,000 pre-seed funding round. The company has developed a platform through which companies can integrate various Large Language Models (LLMs) directly into their business operations.  Generative AI and LLMs have been developing at breakneck speed over the past year — a velocity seemingly matched  by investor appetite for all things GenAI. Indeed, just last week, Europe’s homegrown contribution in th
  
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• £20B plan to power the UK with Moroccan sunshine might actually go ahead

  02-10-2023 17:07 via thenextweb.com
  
  From fusion energy plants and gigantic wind farms to tidal energy mega-turbines, there is no shortage of ambitious renewable energy projects underway in Europe. But when British startup Xlinks announced in 2021 its plans to send several gigawatts of Moroccan solar and wind power to the UK via the world’s longest subsea cable, I’m sure even the most bullish engineers (and investors) were sceptical, and rightly so. Under the plans, electricity from the Guelmim Oued Noun region of sout
  
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• Exciting New Tools for Designers, October 2023

  02-10-2023 14:30 via webdesignerdepot.com
  
  Welcome to our all treats-no tricks, October tools collection.
  
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• Poland wants EU to stop sleeping on digital IDs

  02-10-2023 13:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  The European Commission has been too focused on tackling Big Tech and not enough on improving digital services for citizens. That is according to Poland’s minister of digital affairs, Janusz Cieszyński. He believes the EU needs to shift its digital policy focus to helping Europeans interact with government services. Speaking to TNW at the recent Tallinn Digital Summit in Estonia, Janusz Cieszyński said that digital ID services that are prevalent in Estonia and increasingly so in
  
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• Spotify ‘unfairly held back’ by Google and Apple, CEO says

  02-10-2023 10:56 via thenextweb.com
  
  While on a tour to woo UK lawmakers ahead of the adoption of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill, Daniel Ek has taken a swing at big tech’s dominance.  The Spotify CEO urged the UK to “show leadership” as it prepared to regulate big tech according to its own agenda outside of the EU. However, it is unclear just exactly how much further he expects it to go compared to the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Of course, it is not just concern for the litt
  
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• New AI tool promises to rig and animate static models within moments

  02-10-2023 09:00 via thenextweb.com
  
  Anything World, a 3D content creation startup, has launched a new AI tool that rapidly rigs and animates static models. The product, named Animate Anything, aims to democratise 3D animation and game development. To use the tool, creators can upload any version of their own static 3D model. After a few steps to check the rig, mesh, and rotation, a fully-animated 3D model will emerge. “It’s unique to them and won’t be seen anywhere else, so they can fully own their creation visu
  
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