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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 This story continues at The Next Web

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 This story continues at The Next Web

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 This story continues at The Next Web

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 This story continues at The Next Web

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 This story continues at The Next Web

A recent study by Fortune magazine stated that AI search engines are confidently wrong over 60% of the time, with various widely-used AI tools exhibiting significantly high error rates. This trend often extends to AI-generated captions, as run-on sentences, misheard phrases, and dialogues compressed into an incomprehensible stream of text may be familiar features across This story continues at The Next Web

A recent article published by the BBC explored how generative AI tools could be “hacked” within minutes by introducing newly published online content. In the example presented, a blog post claiming expertise in a highly niche category was later echoed in responses from systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s AI outputs when prompted with This story continues at The Next Web

European go-to-market search firm Nobel Recruitment has acquired Berlin-based ARRtist, a practitioner-led tech community platform for founders, C-level executives and investors. The deal strengthens Nobel’s position in Germany while expanding its reach beyond executive search into community building and ecosystem development. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founded more than four years ago, ARRtist built a This story continues at The Next Web

Proxima Fusion, a Munich-based nuclear energy startup, has outlined plans to raise about €2 billion to build a major fusion test facility in Germany that could be a milestone on the path to commercially viable fusion power. The company expects more than half of that, roughly €1.2 billion, to come from the German federal government, This story continues at The Next Web

ElevenLabs, the London-based voice-AI specialist, has deepened its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to tap into expanded cloud infrastructure and the latest accelerated computing from NVIDIA, including Blackwell-class GPUs. Announced on February 26, this multi-year agreement aims to help ElevenLabs scale its voice synthesis and conversational-agent products for large-enterprise use cases. Under the renewed collaboration, This story continues at The Next Web