Across Europe, we are throwing 40 terrawatt-hours of electricity per year out of the window.
Yes, today. With the Strait of Hormuz closed. And inflation bringing our economy down to its knees.
Our power grids do not need just batteries, or more power supply, or more copper, and so on.
First and foremost, they need better orchestration. Fast, down to each electric cycle. Intelligent, operated by machines in real-time.
Getting human operators toggling switches to steward power across the network - like a traffic cop, or the early Altair 8800 – cannot take us further any more.
And throwing more capex to the problem – the standard industry playbook for the last hundred years – does not solve the underlying challenges; it just amplifies the energy waste. Remember “one more lane”?
Luckily, solutions now exist. Check out our portfolio company SMPnet for example.
But grid operators and regulators need to wake up to the new realities, and adopt change. Revisit old assumptions, try out new things and embrace new approaches to ensure network stability and efficiencies.
Because, for our economies, our communities, and our planet at large, so much energy is such a terrible thing to waste…
Just finished judging tens of submissions for The Independent Agency Awards 2026.
One thing stood out: research is no longer a slide in the deck. It IS the deck.
The strongest entries had proprietary research, and the campaign was the answer to what it surfaced.
More to share. 🪽
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet.
It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back.
You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.
Next Open Coffee Athens on Friday, May 8 is 🔥!
Come join us to hear from exceptional founders, talk startups and connect with community peers!
On stage will appear:
- Minas Liarokapis, cofounder & CEO, Acumino (€16m raised): Building a Robotics AI for industrial automation that actually works
- Dr. Christos Ellinas, cofounder & CTO, Nodes & Links ($30m raised): Delivering complex infra projects on schedule and at cost with AI
- Thanassis Avgerinos, cofounder & VP Engineering, Mayhem Security ($38m raised): The journey from the first autonomous application security platform in 2016 to its recent acquisition by Bugcrowd
The event starts at 6pm in Benaki Museum at 138 Pireos Street.
Presentations take place at 7pm, while networking continues until late in the evening.
Access is free and open to everyone – you are welcome! RSVP link avail after the jump below.
Bring your tech peers and come over to network and meet with your next startup partner ;)
#opencoffee #athens #greek #tech #startups #community #networking #meetup
Today we honor the women across the EO community who lead, build, mentor, and show up for one another every day.
Your courage, perspective, and willingness to lift others up are what make this community so powerful.
#InternationalWomensDay#EO#WomenEntrepreneurs#ThePowerOfUs
Your emotional state sets the tone for your team.
David Miller, EO APAC Platinum One Bridge member, explains on @Inc why self-awareness is essential for leaders and how operating from a balanced state drives better outcomes. #EO#EOxInc https://t.co/OvebX45A7q
"AI is no longer a ‘nice to have’ for forward-thinking companies—it’s quickly becoming the operating system of modern business." -Robert van der Zwart, EO Netherlands
Read about EO’s 4th Global AI Summit: How to Transform to an AI-First Company https://t.co/llBTAvW83e #EOBlog
After 15 wonderful years @generalcatalyst I am moving on to new adventures. The best days for GC are ahead! Super grateful to every single one of my teammates that I had the fortune to work with over the years. I learned a lot. Very thankful to our limited partners too for their long-term support. Equally importantly, it's been the privilege of a lifetime to work with so many inspiring tech startup founders from the very early days.
This Friday, come join us for Open Coffee Athens #126 at Benaki! 🎄☕️🙋
Should you build or just love startups and happen to be in Athens, this is the place to be!
On stage you'll get to hear from:
- Panos Tigas, cofounder & CTO, Diffractive Labs: Building new materials with AI ($4m in pre-seed by Samsung & Khosla)
- Chris Savvopoulos, cofounder & CEO, GreenTriangle: A bootstrap story from launch to transparent claims management for ten million farms worldwide to exit
- Manos Koumandakis, cofounder & CSO, Infinite Orbits: Revolutionizing in-orbit services with innovative spacecrafts and autonomous navigation (€54m raised)
Loving it already? You'll be even more amazed by who you're gonna meet in person ;)
Founders and startup lovers, bring your peers and see you there!
📅 Gary Vaynerchuk goes live 4–5 November 2025
📲 Post your party using #EOWatchParty + your chapter tag
🌍 Let’s light up the EO map together
👉 Register your Watch Party today: https://t.co/qLhc3givzC
#EOPowerhouse#GaryVee#EOWatchParty#BoldlyEO
🚨 Meta just rewired the Transformer’s brain.
They built something called The Free Transformer, and it breaks the single most sacred rule every GPT model has followed since 2017.
For 8 years, Transformers have been blindfolded predicting the next token one at a time, no plan, no inner thought.
Meta just gave it one.
They injected latent variables inside the decoder so the model can secretly decide how it wants to generate before it starts talking.
It’s like giving GPT a private thought process.
The results are ridiculous:
- Smarter reasoning
- Only +3% compute overhead
- Outperforms larger baselines on GSM8K, MMLU, and HumanEval
This isn’t just another model.
It’s the first Transformer that intends before it predicts.
Full paper: arxiv. org/abs/2510.17558v1
Veo 3.1 is live on Higgsfield. Unlimited generations till Monday.
native 1080p, 8s clips, interpolation.
we're taking it further with Director Controls, Draw-to-Video & Multi-Shot.
we didn't just add Veo 3.1. we made it better.
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