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• How Europe is racing to resolve its AI sovereignty woes

  07-11-2023 15:01 via thenextweb.com
  
  While not yet as illustrious as its North American counterparts OpenAI, Anthropic, or Cohere, Europe’s own cohort of generative AI startups is beginning to crystallise. Just yesterday, news broke that Germany’s Aleph Alpha had raised €460mn, in one of the largest funding rounds ever for a European AI company.  The European tech community received news of the investment with some enthusiasm. While much focus has been on how the EU will regulate the tech (and how the UK will
  
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• ‘Dark universe’ space mission reveals its first colour images of the cosmos

  07-11-2023 14:15 via thenextweb.com
  
  A spacecraft that’s exploring the dark universe has released its first full-colour images of the cosmos. Named Euclid after the ancient Greek “father of geometry,” the satellite was developed by the European Space Agency (ESA). Its mission: produce the world’s largest, most accurate 3D map of the universe — with time as the third dimension.  Over a six-year journey that launched in July, the €1bn probe will monitor more than a third of
  
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• Why Europe is lagging behind in the spacetech race

  07-11-2023 11:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  News broke last month that the European Space Agency (ESA) had engaged SpaceX to launch four of Europe’s Galileo satellites into orbit in 2024. The decision to turn to Elon Musk’s US-based company comes in the wake of delays to Europe’s own Ariane 6 rockets, which mean the continent is without its own means to deliver large payloads into space. Though it’s only designed to bridge the gap in our current capabilities, it’s a disappointing development for Europe&rsquo
  
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