IDC: How EMEA CIOs can jumpstart AI rollouts

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Partnership between top startup DeepL and Amazon comes amid concern about Silicon Valley’s monopoly over digital infrastructure AI companies in Europe risk losing their world-leading status in the field of machine translation, industry figures have said, after the decision by one of the continent’s leading startups to partner with Amazon’s cloud computing division provoked alarm. While businesses in the EU have generally lagged behind the US and China in AI adoption, a small group of European companies have cornered the global market for high-quality machine translations for professional use. Continue reading...

At first glance, Microsoft Foundry looks like a big grab bag of every AI-adjacent service that Microsoft has offered in the last decade, plus some new ones. In Microsoft’s own words, “Foundry consolidates several previous Azure AI services and tools into a unified platform” and “unifies agents, models, and tools under a single management grouping.” Microsoft Foundry helps application developers to build and deploy agents, which may use models and tools. It also helps machine learning (ML) engineers and data scientists to fine-tune models, run evaluations, and manage model deployments. Finally, it helps IT administrators and platform engineers to govern AI resources, enforce policies, and manage access across teams. It isn’t quite a floor wax and a dessert topping, but it does try to serve three distinct audiences. Key capabilities of Microsoft Foundry for building agents include multi-agent orchestration, workflows, a tool catalog, memory, knowledge integration, and publishing. Key cap

QyTw0, the Finnish AI lab founded by former AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin, is now valued at €325 million (approximately $380 million) after raising a €25 million angel round ($29 million). It's a sign of enduring tailwinds for AI, quantum computing, and sovereign tech, especially for Europe-made companies.

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 5 May and 30 June 2026. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. 5 May 2026 Perspectives after the MUSAiC Project Speaker: Bob L. T. Sturm (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Organised by: […]

In 2021, I was developing software for an aerospace manufacturer and met with our machine learning team to discuss innovative approaches for tracking FOD (free-orbiting debris), a major security and operational concern in the industry. What struck me wasn’t the algorithms or tracking equipment, but the terabytes of data (up to petabytes) that were being produced. Old-school problems of limited hardware resources and inefficient data compression were bottlenecking cutting-edge visual learning models and traditional tracking solutions alike. The team was smart and could fine-tune quickly, but the real challenge was making sure our infrastructure could scale with them. In aerospace, performance hinges on how fast systems can absorb and interpret massive telemetry streams, and storage is often the silent limiter. When you’re generating terabytes to petabytes of data in a single test cycle, even a brief stall in the storage layer becomes a bottleneck. A few milliseconds of delay between wha

WALLDORF, Germany and FREIBURG, Germany, May 4, 2026 — SAP SE and Prior Labs, the pioneer of Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs), announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement […] The post SAP to Acquire Prior Labs to Establish a Globally Leading Frontier AI Lab in Europe appeared first on AIwire.

May 1, 2026 — Today’s advances in robotics are often driven by breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and perception. But in complex and constrained environments, the limiting factor is […] The post DARPA Issues RFI on Embedding Intelligence into Robotic Materials appeared first on AIwire.