• Friends of Armenia Network calls for “more Europe in Armenia, more Armenia in Europe”

    Former prime ministers, commissioners, ministers, and sitting parliamentarians have released a report calling for more Europe in Armenia; more Armenia in Europe. The Friends of Armenia Network, led by former Danish Prime Minister and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, today released a report which outlines a detailed vision for making Armenia’s Western trajectory irreversible. …

  • Techceletator – recognized by the Financial Times as one of the top hubs for startups in Europe and third in Eastern Europe

    Techcelerator, the SEED accelerator targeting advanced technology start-ups in Romania and South Eastern Europe, has received recognition from the prestigious business publication Financial Times in the Europe’s Leading Start-Up Hubs 2024 report, a ranking of the top startup hubs that offer incubation and/or acceleration programs for people looking to start or grow a company. Techcelerator […]

  • Where in Europe is housing most expensive?

    New data has shown that the amount people spend on putting a roof over

  • Europe Sleepwalks Through Its Own Dilemmas

    On March 19, 2024, the head of France’s ground forces, General Pierre Schill, published an article in the newspaper, Le Monde, with a blunt title: “The Army Stands Ready.” Schill cut his teeth in France’s overseas adventures in the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, and Somalia. In this article, General Schill wrote that his troops are “ready” for any confrontation and that he could mobilize 60,000 of France’s 121,000 soldiers within a month for any conflict. He quoted the old Latin...

  • xAI open sources Grok

    On March 11th, Elon Musk said xAI would open source its AI chatbot Grok, and now an open release is available on GitHub. This will allow researchers and developers to build on the model and impact how xAI updates Grok in the future as it competes with rival tech from OpenAI, Meta, Google, and others. A company blog post explains that this open release includes the “base model weights and network architecture” of the “314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, Grok-1.” It goes on to say the...

  • California Looks To Europe To Rein In AI

    California, home to Silicon Valley, is eager to rein in the deployment of artificial intelligence and is looking to Europe's tough-on-big-tech approach for inspiration.The richest state in the United States by GDP, California is a hotbed of no-holds-barred tech innovation, but lawmakers in state capital Sacramento want to give the industry laws and guardrails it has largely been spared in the internet age.Brussels has enacted a barrage of laws on US-dominated tech and sprinted to pass the AI Act...

  • California looks to Europe to rein in AI

    California, home to Silicon Valley, is eager to rein in the deployment of artificial intelligence and is looking to Europe's tough-on-big-tech approach for inspiration."They are taking, essentially, a European approach on artificial intelligence - which is that we must ban the technology," said Carl Szabo, the general counsel of the association, which advocates for light touch regulation of tech.

  • Departures: The Bloomberg Close, Europe Edition

    Good afternoon. Here's what you need to know to end your day. Embattled

  • The Top 20 Most Popular Casinos in Europe

    In this article, we highlight the top 20 most popular casinos in Europe to add to your list to visit on your next holiday or business trip.

  • Time to kick Europe out of NATO's house

    It is time to set aside the nostalgia and take an uncompromising look at our European allies and decide whether they are still the sort of people we want to defend.

  • Microsoft open sources Azure Retina

    Microsoft has announced that it’s open-sourced its cloud container networking platform, Azure Retina makes developers’ lives a lot easier, as they can troubleshoot their apps and services without worrying much about the network infrastructure. And now that it’s become open source, Microsoft expects more innovation and expanding Retina’s capability. According to Microsoft, open-sourcing Retina will […]

  • Why Open Source Models Could Be the Future of AI

    Elon Musk’s xAI is open-sourcing its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Grok, in a move that some say could democratize AI technology and foster innovation in commercial applications. The company has released the data for Grok to X Premium+ subscribers through GitHub and BitTorrent. This open release comes amid Musk’s ongoing criticism and legal action against OpenAI for not […]