Gerard Grech on startups, governments, and academia

TNW Podcast

Welcome to the new episode of the TNW Podcast — the show where we discuss the latest developments in the European technology ecosystem and feature interviews with some of the most interesting people in the industry.

In today’s episode, Andrii and Linnea talk about AI safety, Europe regulating Big Tech (but not quite), snowmobile emissions, and the cost of chatbot hallucinations.

The guest of the show is Gerard Grech, managing director of Founders at the University of Cambridge — and the founding chief executive of Tech Nation in the UK.

Here are the stories and things mentioned in the episode:

• AI chip tags can fight espionage from hostile states, report says
• Apple won’t be forced to open up iMessage by EU
• Apple, Microsoft partly exempted from EU Digital Markets Act
• Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
• Traditional snowmobiles can emit a whole lot of hydrocarbon pollutants and greenhouse gases

Music and sound engineering for this podcast are by Sound Pulse.

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