Friday is right here, the solar is shining and it's time in your weekly roundup of reports from the Dutch tech ecosystem.
This week noticed progress in hydrogen gas cells, an enormous sale for chip gear maker ASML and considerations about how right-wing politics will disrupt Dutch firms' entry to tech expertise.
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Within the meantime, let's get to the information.
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- Dutch tech firms categorical concern over plans for harder stance on immigration (France 24)
- Groundbreaking Dutch hydrogen gas cell firm Zepp.options raises €3M (Silicon channels)
- Intel secures ASML kits with high-NA EUV over rivals (Elec)
- Netflix is rising subscription costs within the Netherlands for the primary time since 2021 (AD)
- Apple Maps expands biking routes for bike-centric Netherlands (Tech Occasions)
Dutch startup of the week: LeydenJar
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Lithium-ion batteries have remodeled eevery little thing from shopper electronics to EVs and vitality storage. However to energy the subsequent wave of know-how — from airplanes to smartphones — they should get denser.
LeydenJar has discovered a approach to change the graphite anodes present in most lithium-ion cells with silicon ones.
Silicon anodes can retailer 10 occasions extra lithium ions. Meaning denser batteries that last more.
The corporate raised a wholesome €100 million in funding to this point. It additionally lately introduced plans to construct its first industrial-scale manufacturing facility, resulting from open in 2026.
Learn extra Right here about how LeydenJar plans to construct cheaper, higher and extra sustainable battery know-how.
TNW Convention Speaker to Watch
Every week, one in all our writers will share a high tip for the TNW Convention. Right this moment's choose comes from our editor Linnea Ahlgren:
One of many audio system I'm trying ahead to listening to this yr is Synthetic Basic Intelligence (AGI) researcher Aliya Grig.
Her analysis integrates rules from consciousness research, neuroscience, and cognitive science to create extra superior and adaptive AI methods. Grig can also be the founding father of Evolwe AI, a startup that claims to construct synthetic intelligence “closest to people in offering empathy, reasoning and cognitive talents.”
Like anybody who listened TNW podcast Sometimes, I'll know that I'm extremely fascinated by the philosophy of consciousness and thoughts—in actual fact, that's partly what sparked my curiosity in AI.
And as productive and efficiency-enhancing as massive language fashions are, I don't assume they are going to lead us to AGI. Human intelligence and cognition come up from interactions and processes which can be much more complicated than such methods.
As such, I'm keen to listen to Grig's perspective on what options he believes AI methods have to advance towards AGI. Moreover, because the session title suggests, what sorts of moral frameworks and safeguards have to be carried out earlier than realizing AGI, who ought to determine what these needs to be, and who needs to be chargeable for unethical conduct or options in AI methods ?
Aliya Grig additionally based The Cosmos Metropolis, an progressive hub for area know-how startups positioned in Los Angeles, and has over 15 years of expertise efficiently launching and exiting renewable vitality and area know-how startups ..
Throughout a panel on the TNW Convention subsequent month, Grig will talk about “Humanism: The Philosophical Debate for the Ethics of AI.”
That's it for this week's recap. Till subsequent Friday, all ziens!
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