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SiftedEuropeProfessor James Whittington and Dr Ruairidh Battleday unveil breakthrough from stealth frontier AI lab Prefrontal's new method, Latent Sparse Attention (LSA), organises information according to meaning rather than its position in a sequence.

SiftedEuropePhotonics mapped: 74 European startups using light to power the AI era From optical chips to laser weapons, these are the companies turning photons into Europe’s next deeptech export.

SiftedEuropeLovable backer Creandum raises $750m for largest-ever fund to back AI boom The fundraise comes as the firm has tripled its presence in San Francisco over the last two years

SiftedEuropeMissile startup Hypersonica raises €100m from Lightspeed, General Catalyst as missile defence takes off The Series B raise reportedly values the startup at around €700m.

SiftedEuropeEnterprise customers want to see AI’s ROI. Here’s how startups can show it This year has been about proving ROI, with startups needing to demonstrate that their AI products benefit companies much faster.

SiftedEurope15 photonics startups to watch, according to VCs Photonics are becoming red-hot as increasingly demanding AI workloads require faster and more efficient approaches to computing

SiftedEuropeLondon is the 'best place in the world to launch an AI company' The city's startups benefit from the extraordinary cross-pollination of ideas, cultures, expertise and experience, writes John Thornhill.

SiftedEuropeAI has changed how we work. So why does the office look exactly the same? We’ve barely begun to imagine how to physically house the tech

SiftedEuropeSouth Korea is betting on startups to secure its future on the global stage This year, Korea’s Ministry of SMEs and Startups named four cities, its first Startup Cities, which it wants to be able to play on a global stage.

SiftedEuropeEx-EQT investor Doreen Huber joins Interface Capital with eye for cyber deals amid ‘extremely scary’ AI agent boom The former founder and Delivery Hero exec says cybersecurity threats are growing as fast as AI

SiftedEuropeTalent tops European AI startups’ concerns as funding pressures mount Sifted’s AI 100 survey finds funding climbing the list of concerns, buyers circling and more respondents open to a US move

SiftedEuropeIs France’s startup nation falling out of love with Macron? Amid a debt crisis and mounting social unrest, the French tech sector is wondering what happened to the president’s early promises

SiftedEuropeWhy Creandum and USV co-led a $40m seed into Machenta, a robotics lab with no product Machenta, a spinout from Imperial College London which came out of stealth this week, is challenging the robotics data narrative.

SiftedEuropeBots bouncers: the startups deciding what AI agents can do Funding for European startups that secure AI agents has grown sixfold this year, and the big security vendors are already buying them.

SiftedEurope‘There’s no magic money tree’: Alex Depledge on the Budget, startup lobbying and why she left the UK government Departing entrepreneurship advisor takes aim at ‘whiny’ founders and the OBR’s economic policies.

SiftedEuropeAre Europe's fastest-growing startups hiring wrong? A new category of AI-native hiring tools is emerging, built specifically for founders and hiring teams who need to move quickly.

SiftedEuropeExclusive: Deeptech startup MuRay raises €7.1m to see inside rocket engines The Hamburg-based startup is developing technology to inspect industrial components that conventional X-rays struggle to penetrate.

SiftedEuropeThe French robotics startup promising to deploy industrial humanoids after just 20 minutes of training Paris-based AI model maker Bleu Robotics has raised a €5m pre-seed round led by Contrarian Ventures and OVNI Capital.

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