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While the demand for tech workers is increasing, this is happening in tandem with a worsening skills gap. Large companies arent faring much better with 68% unable to fill all their open tech roles. The skills gap looks set to worsen as new technologies open up demand for emerging job roles. 40% off TNW Conference! TheEuropean Commissionis highly aware of its ongoing skills gap issue and the threat that this poses for economic expansion....

DeepSeek proves that Silicon Valley cant monopolise AI innovation, according to a European AI entrepreneur. Muj Choudhury, the CEO and co-founder of Britishvoice processing startupRocketPhone, welcomed DeepSeeks rapid rise. He hopes the Chinese company signals a shift in the balance ofAIpower. In this landscape, an outsider like DeepSeek breaking through is not just impressive. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. That handful has certainly been shaken by DeepSeeks emergence....

DeepSeeksent ripplesthrough the global tech landscape this week as it soared above ChatGPT in Apples app store. DeepSeek isnt just another AI tool. Why DeepSeek matters DeepSeek was conceived by a group ofquantitative trading expertsin China. Thisunconventional origin holds lessons for the UK and US. Diversifying the pathways for Stem (science, technology, engineering and maths) professionals could yield transformative outcomes. Incremental steps are not sufficient in such a fast-moving environment....

SwedishstartupAdsorbi has secured 1mn to ramp up production of a cellulose-based material that sucks up pollutants from the air. The facility will have an expected capacity of 100 tonnes per year. Johansson co-founded Adsorbi in 2022 alongsideChristian Lofvendahl, Romain Bordes, and Kinga Grenda. The team spun out the company from materials research at the ChalmersUniversity of Technology in Gothenburg. 40% off TNW Conference! Continuing the teams initial objective, the startup also works with museums to protect artefacts and artworks....

Spanish tech star TravelPerk has raised a whopping $200mn and sealed the acquisition of expenses platform Yokoy. The investment values TravelPerk at $2.7bn almost double last years $1.4bn valuation. The business travel giant said the funds would fuel further product development and expansion into the US. European VC firm Atomico led the Series E investment. TravelPerk will now integrate Yokoy into one automated platform for travel and expenses. Customers dont have to compromise anymore, said JC Taunay-Bucalo, TravelPerks president and COO....

Remember when spotting a drone in the sky was a novelty? Without air traffic control, were one step away from midair collisions and drones arguing over parking spots. Enter AirDodge, a Norwegian startup thats stepping in to tame the chaos. The investment will help AirDodge develop its U-Space software platform, designed to manage large-scale drone operations across Europe. The AirDodge platform provides a real-time map ofdroneactivity and aims to simplify the process of obtaining flight permissions....

Stunning AI advances from Chinese startup DeepSeek have sent tech stocks tumbling across the US and Europe. DeepSeek released a free chatbot and new open-source AI models last week. The new R1 models sent further shockwaves through the AI world. R1 promised performance to rival OpenAI tops reasoning model at just a fraction of the cost. Marc Andreessen, one of the worlds most powerful VCs, called the release AIs Sputnik moment....

The potential benefits of precision medicine also come with new challenges. Importantly, the amount and complexity of data available for each patient is rapidly increasing. How will clinicians figure out which data is useful for a particular patient? What is the most effective way to interpret the data for go for the best treatment? These are precisely the challenges thatcomputer scientists like meare working to address. Randomized controlled trialsrandomly place participants in different groups that receive either an experimental treatment or a placebo....

Right now, theres at least one nuclear-power, nuclear-armed submarine stealthily patrolling the waters off the UK. Rolls-Royce today announced that it has secured a whopping9bn contract to maintain and upgrade the Navys submarinenuclear reactors. The Astute-class are nuclear-powered but conventionally armed. Six of seven planned vessels are already operational. 40% off TNW Conference! The Navy plans to replace the Vanguards with the Dreadnought-class SSBNs in the early 2030s. These machines use uranium to generate heat, turning water into steam that spins a turbine to generate electricity....

5 jobs to discover this week 40% off TNW Conference! Since ChatGPT was released in November 2022, investment intoAIhas increased nearly eightfold. Meanwhile, robots and autonomous systems have seen steady growth of 5-7% annually since 2020. Despite all this, AI and big data only placed 11th in the list of core skills for 2025. In top billing is analytical thinking (69% of employers agree). Creative thinking, plus motivation and self-awareness come in fourth and fifth....

Donald Trumps big AI announcement has turned heads on both sides of the Atlantic. The companies said $100bn of the funding was available immediately. The rest would be deployed over the next four years. Trump billed Stargate as the largest AI infrastructure project by far in history. He added that the project would ensure the future of technology is in the US. Masayoshi Son, the CEO of SoftBank, had another bold prediction....

Qubits, entanglement, superposition,trapped-ions, Schrodingers cat. 40% off TNW Conference! We need to focus on long-term scalability. How can it do that, you ask? Well, its got something vaguely to do with aeroplanes, cars, and magnetic fields. But first, a quick science lesson. Qubits are the basic units of information in a quantum computer. Now, there are two main kinds of quantum computers in development. The first and most common are superconducting quantum computers, pioneered by the likes ofGoogleand IBM....

An Icelandic scaleup has sparked hopes of a breakthrough in dementia treatment after raising 26.5mn for groundbreaking research. Arctic Therapeutics (ATx) attracted the investment after pioneering a new approach todrug development. Founded in 2015, the company first analyses genomic data with bioinformatics a blend of computer science and biology. After identifying disease-associated genes and proteins, ATx targets the root causes of a given condition. According to the scaleup, the process cuts the risks, costs, and time involved in developing treatments....