Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
French Technology Reporter at Sifted
Paris-based French tech reporter for @Siftedeu. Previously @ZDNet and @WiredUK. Views my own Tips and stories: [email protected] // Signal +33 6 31 99 74 65
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4 days ago |
sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
H Company, the mysterious Paris-based AI startup, has released a suite of new AI agents following months of stealth. The startup entered the French tech scene with a bang last year when it raised a $220m seed round with a cofounding team that included four ex-Deepmind scientists. Three months later, three cofounders left the company, leaving Deepmind alum Laurent Sifre and CEO Charles Kantor to lead the business.
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4 days ago |
sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
Paris-based Pasqal, which builds quantum computers, has bought Canadian photonics startup Aeponyx for an undisclosed sum. The deal marks Pasqal’s third acquisition after it bought Dutch quantum software developer Qu&Co in 2022 and French cryogenics startup My Cryo Firm the same year.
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1 week ago |
sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
The European Commission has unveiled its much-awaited strategy for startups and scaleups, with plans to tackle some of the key barriers to growth for tech companies in the EU. The package includes harmonising fragmented national markets and plugging the funding gap for later-stage businesses thanks to a new ‘scaleup fund’. Policymakers aim to ensure European startups stay in the region instead of relocating to the US, where market conditions are more favourable to grow.
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1 week ago |
sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet |Miriam Partington
EU lawmakers are said to be considering pausing the rollout of the AI Act following months of tense negotiations, confusion over how the law will be implemented and backlash from industry players at home and abroad. According to a recent report from specialist legal publication MLex, the European Commission is considering a move to pause enforcement of the Act and introduce amendments to “simplify” the law.
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1 week ago |
sifted.eu | Daphne Leprince-Ringuet
Palantir alumni Tamar Gomez and Wiem Gharbi have raised a £3m (€3.6m) seed round led by global investor Index for Ankar, a startup developing an AI-powered platform helping researchers file patents for their inventions faster. French investors Daphni and Motier Ventures, German VCs Booom and Puzzle Ventures also participated in the round, alongside high-profile angels such as Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel and Hugging Face CTO Julien Chaumond.
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