On 12 June, two of the world's most advanced AI models were switched off for the entire planet. Not by accident. By order. A government issued an export-control directive barring any foreign national, inside or outside its borders, from using them. With no way to verify nationality across a shared service in real time, the provider had no choice but to switch the models off for every customer worldwide, Americans included. The frontier of machine reasoning, the same engines now accelerating medicine, materials, and climate science, made unavailable to 8 billion people with a few hours' notice. This particular block may be lifted within days. The precedent is permanent: a frontier model can now be removed from the world by a single government's letter. For years we treated access to the best tools as a settled fact, like electricity in the wall. It never was. Open science, equitable discovery, the idea that a researcher in Nairobi or Naples should reach the same frontier as one in California, cannot rest on infrastructure that one capital can switch off. Here's what gives me hope. Europe is not short on talent. Not short on science. Not short on values, the public-interest, rights-respecting model the world actually wants to build on. We have been short on one thing: the urgency to fund our own frontier. That excuse just ended. So this is my open call. To investors: European frontier labs and sovereign compute are not a moral nice-to-have anymore. They are critical infrastructure. Back them like the grids and bridges they are. To policymakers: move at the speed of this moment. Compute, capital, talent visas, procurement that chooses European builders. A model served from Europe cannot be switched off from abroad. To founders and researchers: build. Ambitiously, urgently, now. The world is suddenly looking for an alternative. That window will not stay open forever. I build research infrastructure in Europe because I believe discovery belongs to everyone, not to whoever owns the servers. 12 June made the case better than I ever could. Let's not waste it. #SovereignAI #OpenScience #EuropeanDeepTech #AIpolicy

Hyme is a Copenhagen-based deep tech scale-up, developing energy storage solutions to decarbonise industrial process heat. Founded in 2021, the company is changing the future of thermal energy storage with molten hydroxides as their innovative storage medium. “Our energy storage systems take cheap, intermittent renewable energy when it's available, store it in the form of heat, and dispatch it on demand, typically 24/7, into the industrial site where it needs to be used,” said Nis Benn, the COO and Co-founder of Hyme Energy, during our interview. Read, watch, or listen to it now: eicscalingclub.eu/news/hyme-… #EICScalingClub #EuropeanDeepTech #GreenEnergy #BatteriesEnergyStorage #RenewableEnergy

Our Digital Security & Trust group member @hadriansecurity has reached a significant milestone by completing its Service Organisation Control (SOC) 2 Type II audit! This rigorous assessment is developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) to assess an organisation’s security controls. Achieving SOC 2 Type II is a testament to Hadrian's commitment to security and compliance. Read more about this milestone here: hadrian.io/blog/hadrian-achi… Congratulations, and the best of luck to the whole team! #AICPA #EICScalingClub #EuropeanDeepTech #Hadrian

Keep an eye on your inbox, as EIC Scaling Club's March newsletter has just landed 🚀 In this issue: ➡️Close to €200 million in VC funding and grants secured by our members in one month! ➡️Interviews with @SakowinGreenNRJ, @rfa_space, @contextflow_rad, @battolyser, and @powerup_tech ➡️ Webinar highlights, open calls, opportunities for our members, and more! #EICScalingClub #EuropeanDeepTech

Iliana Ivanova (@Ili_Ivanova), European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, gave an opening speech today at the Scale 100 Forum. She announced that the second batch of companies will be welcomed by the EIC Scaling Club today, expressing excitement about the 72 new members joining the existing 48. Ms Ivanova also emphasized the tailored support these companies would receive to navigate funding, partnerships, and talent acquisition. She concluded by wishing the companies success in their journey to become Europe's next tech unicorns. #Scele100Forum #EuropeanDeepTech #EuropeanInnovation

Great news from our #btovportfolio ! @EffectPhotonics raises USD 37m. Congrats to my colleague @ChrisReitberger and everybody involved! #btovindustrialtech #photonics #5G #EuropeanDeepTech