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European VCs, startups, and startup associations have been unhappy with the European Parliament recently — all because of the potential implementation of the “28th regime” for European startups, aka EU Inc., aka “European Start-Up and Scale-Up company” (ESSU). The European Parliament is working on a suggestion of how to implement the idea — but the ecosystem isn't quite happy. Andrii Degeler d...

In this episode, let's talk about European deep tech with its veteran observer, Robin Wauters, known as the founding editor of Tech.eu, as well as journalist and editor at TNW and TechCrunch at the dawn of European tech. We caught up at EIC Summit 2025 to talk about what Robin has been up to after selling Tech.eu to the media company Webrazzi, his fascination with deep tech, and what it'd...

How is Hollywood using AI to get rid of excessive f-words? We're going to find out an interview with Thomas Macaulay of TNW, who recently wrote a story about a British film director who ended up being an AI startup co-founder. 0:00 Intro 02:15 Hollywood and computational creativity 03:43 The story of Flawless 05:40 How do you remove the f-word without re-filming? 08:01 Solving the dubbing issu...

In this podcast episode, we're unpacking the story of the “Universal charging directive” that recently came into force in the EU. Our guest in the studio, Callum Booth , wrote a story on the initiative for The Verge — and will now discuss what it actually means for us Europeans, as well as share a few things that didn't make it into the piece. In the second part of the show, Callum talks a...