EU're Gonna Love This

Sweden is getting a lot of love and praise in the tech space. How successful is it? And what is driving that success?Also, the EU AI Act is a hot topic again after all the hacking scandals of the past couple of months. How are things looking there?

Hugging Face is being acquired by Nvidia for nearly $13B, and Mistral just secured a new funding round of €3B. Both have French founders, but one company is actually American. What are the drivers and differences in their success?

AI is massively transforming the way the internet works and the types and quality of information we get. What's happening and why does it feel like so much of what we're seeing is worse?

Shortly after the news about OpenAI's hacking issues, Anthropic and others followed up with their own announcements. What's happened and should people be worried?We also look at the new AI slop reporting feature on LinkedIn and dive into the big question - how hard is it to start a business in Europe?

This week we've got a newsbag covering some of the biggest tech news you may have missed plus two deep dives. The first is all about prediction markets and the wave of bans they're facing in Europe. The second is about a Dutch tech startup called Monumental that is leveraging AI to build robots that lay bricks, build houses, and more. 

Apple is blaming the EU for preventing SiriAI from coming to Europe. Plus, we're covering two startups taking the world of agentic AI and worflows by storm: Dust and N8N.