by ATHENA | Mar 14, 2024 | News
The French Ministry of the Armed Forces will launch a Ministerial Agency for Defence AI (AMIAD), minister Sébastien Lecornu announced as he presented the new strategy on artificial intelligence. The agency is set to recruit 300 people, including numerous...
by ATHENA | Mar 14, 2024 | News
NATO has announced a major expansion of its Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) programme, which helps companies develop military applications of dual-use technologies, as it prepares to reach full operating capability in 2025. DIANA brings...
by ATHENA | Mar 14, 2024 | News
On 14 March, the Chips Joint Undertaking announced the inclusion of the United Kingdom as a Participating State in the Chips JU programme. This is an important development in the UK’s technological and research collaboration with the European Union following...
by ATHENA | Mar 14, 2024 | News
On 14 March, the EIC has published the results of the Pathfinder Challenges 2023. The Commission has selected 43 new projects to receive €159 million of EU Funding (on average €3.7 million per project). Participants predominantly come from higher education...
by ATHENA | Mar 13, 2024 | News
BotGuard OÜ, an Estonia-founded cybersecurity software company has secured a €12 million Series A funding round. The company helps web hosting providers control traffic and protect their infrastructure from malicious threats. Nearly half of all internet traffic...
by ATHENA | Mar 13, 2024 | News
Yoko is an AI assistant specifically designed to help students in the US prepare for the SAT exam Smartschool, a Polish-US-founded edtech company headquartered in San Francisco, announced today that it has raised $1.5 million in a Pre-Seed round. The company has...