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• Europe’s Deep-Tech Paradox

  27-02-2026 16:18 via thenextweb.com
  
  Europe does not suffer from a shortage of capital. What it lacks is the legal courage and analytical competence required to direct that capital toward the areas where it can create the greatest long-term value: SciTech startups. This gap shapes the entire continent’s innovation landscape, and Sweden is no exception. Even as Sweden is celebrated […]
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• OpenAI secures record-breaking $110B funding to “Scale AI for everyone”

  27-02-2026 15:12 via thenextweb.com
  
  OpenAI announced a landmark funding round and strategic alliances on February 27, 2026, aimed at expanding the reach of artificial intelligence across consumers, developers, and enterprises while cementing its leadership in global AI infrastructure. The initiative, framed under the banner “Scaling AI for everyone,” signals a new phase in the commercialization and deployment of frontier […]
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• Opinion: Red lines and Red flags

  27-02-2026 14:34 via thenextweb.com
  
  The fierce standoff over Claude isn’t just a contract fight. It’s about who controls the future of military AI. In Washington and Silicon Valley, a conflict once relegated to specialist policy briefings has burst into view as arms-length diplomacy between the U.S. Department of Defense and Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI lab, approaches a critical […]
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• Encord raises €50M to build the data layer for physical AI

  27-02-2026 14:08 via thenextweb.com
  
  London-based data infrastructure startup Encord has closed a €50 million ($60 million) Series C funding round, led by Wellington Management, with participation from existing backers including Y Combinator, CRV, N47, Crane Venture Partners and Harpoon Ventures, alongside new investors Bright Pixel Capital and Isomer Capital. The round brings total capital raised to about €93 million […]
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• Opinion: The Sacred and the Silicon Valley

  27-02-2026 13:22 via thenextweb.com
  
  If there is something I never expected to read, it was the Pope’s opinion on artificial intelligence and its use within the Church. So when Pope Leo XIV advised priests of his diocese not to outsource homilies to artificial intelligence, the instruction read almost like a parish bulletin caught between two worlds. Except it wasn’t […]
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