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Germany's @parloa_ai has built a $3 billion company by developing an AI agent management platform that uses GenAI to automate customer interactions in contact centers, offering both autonomous AI agents and real-time AI assistance to human agents. theinnovator.news/startup-of-the…

@KayFButterfield , a former head of AI at the @wef and one of the world’s foremost experts on #AIgovernance, writes about how #AI is fueling the age of mass surveillance in her latest column, part of an exclusive series for The Innovator. theinnovator.news/how-ai-is-fuel…

"It's vital that we invest into disruptive technologies like #quantum #novelmaterials and #semiconductor technology to be able to strengthen the technological position of NATO allies," says Sander Verbrugge, a partner at the @NATOInnovationFund (NIF). theinnovator.news/nato-innovatio…

While office cleaning I came across this gem from the New York Times in an August 10, 1994 article entitled Extent of #Internet's Use Said to Be Exaggerated: "John S. Quarterman, an Internet demographer says there could be only two million users who are reachable."

@cauldronferm's “hyper-fermentation” — a proprietary technology that enables a continuous fermentation process, "can make products 30% to 50% cheaper while also manufacturing significantly more,” says CEO Michele Stansfield. theinnovator.news/cauldron-fern/

Read what @AnnMettler , President of Catalyse Europe, has to say about Europe’s energy strategy, security risks, and the role of defense in the clean energy transition. theinnovator.news/ann-mettler/

Unless we act quickly the #AI-powered killer machines we built to win #wars will prove to be a turning point with no map writes AI governance expert @KayFButterfield - in an exclusive column in The Innovator. theinnovator.news/ai-in-warfare/

@CorPowerOcean has developed patented wave energy converters that aim to solve marine engineering problems and reduce costs to levels competitive with established renewables, positioning it to help drive global wave energy at a commercial scale. theinnovator.news/corpower-ocean/ .

@JohnMartinis, a 2025 #NobelLaureateinPhysics renowned for his pioneering contributions to superconducting #quantumcomputing, is The Innovator's Interview of the Week. Read the interview to learn why quantum is here and why it is not. theinnovator.news/john-martinis/

#Quantumcomputing sits in a strange and liminal place: something is happening but equally clearly, the revolution is not here yet. Read The Innovator's story to understand the breakthroughs and the barriers to quantum computing, theinnovator.news/quantum-comput…

Mirai Robotics, Europe’s newest dual-use startup building #autonomous and intelligent systems for maritime operations, has a big ambition. It wants to build a European center of excellence for #maritimeautonomy in #Italy. theinnovator.news/mirai-robotics/

"Cyberspace is the fifth dimension of warfare, in addition to land, sea, air, and space," says @AkshayJoshi,  the Head of the @wef Centre for Cybersecurity. "Organizations must factor #geopolitics into their overarching #cyberresilience strategies." theinnovator.news/interview-of-t…

Find out why #Europe has a credible path to becoming a fusion power. Read The Innovator's story about @proximafusion. theinnovator.news/fusion-energy/

“We use #AI to be better at measuring any type of skill and by measuring everything we are better at measuring every single thing,” says @KianKatan, CEO of skills intelligence startup @workera, The Innovator's Interview Of The Week. theinnovator.news/startup-of-the…

As #AI transforms the nature of work #braincapital and the emerging #braineconomy are not simply public health priorities—they are core business issues," says @GeorgeVradenburg, The Innovator's Interview of the Week. theinnovator.news/interview-of-t…

@Nightingale AI is leveraging Europe’s advance in digitizing #healthcarerecords to build the world’s largest health foundation AI model. It is being designed to read medical records, lab results, X-rays, genetic and imaging data. theinnovator.news/how-nightingal…

"If your business lacks a genuine moat, whether proprietary data or unique expertise that can withstand an army of highly skilled #AI agents, it will inevitably face disruption within the commoditization kill zone," says ex-Google exec @YarivAdan. theinnovator.news/interview-of-t…

New reports on #AIsovereignty — one from @InstituteGC , another from the The @BrookingsInst, and a third by the @wef in collaboration with Bain & Co. — seek to help governments find paths forward theinnovator.news/sovereignty-in…

Artyc, a #WEF Technology Pioneer, is developing smart #coldchain packaging to reduce the amount of product loss in the #pharmaceutical, #food and #industrialchemical sectors. theinnovator.news/startup-of-the…

Many of #Israel’s core strengths, including #AI, #sensing, #advancedmaterials, #cyber and #quantum, are foundational technologies that operate across civilian and security environments," says @AlonStopel,the Chairman of the Israel Innovation Authority theinnovator.news/interview-of-t…