Finland is targeting American AI engineers and researchers with fast-track work permits and promises of a 40-hour week, as tech workers seek alternatives to Silicon Valley’s intense culture.
Helsinki firm emerges from stealth with backing from Silo AI co-founder, promising to end the need for linear sales headcount growth
Every week, another company announces its bold AI transformation. A few months later, that same company has a pilot project gathering dust, a confused team, and an executive quietly wondering where the budget went. The pattern is predictable. The pain is avoidable. AI can unlock genuine business value — but only if you stop making the same strategic mistakes everyone else is making.
Finnish start-up Agileday aims to modernise how consulting and professional services firms plan, deliver and scale their operations. Recently announced Series A funding will definitely help.
Voiko digitaalinen koontisäädös olla ratkaisu EU:n sääntelytulvaan? Komission ehdotus lupaa helpotusta yrityksille, mutta samalla se herättää kysymyksiä siitä, kuka hyötyy eniten ja pääsevätkö pk-yritykset mukaan digitaalitalouden kilpajuoksuun.
Voiko digitaalinen koontisäädös olla ratkaisu EU:n sääntelytulvaan? Komission ehdotus lupaa helpotusta yrityksille, mutta samalla se herättää kysymyksiä siitä, kuka hyötyy eniten ja pääsevätkö pk-yritykset mukaan digitaalitalouden kilpajuoksuun.
Finnish deep tech companies raised a record €1.6 billion in funding last year. The figure is impressive, until you understand its true meaning. Take away three giant companies and the year was quieter than usual. So the real question isn’t whether Finland can produce industry titans, but whether we can replicate the recipe for success.
Tampere University has won backing from Business Finland for a €20 million initiative that aims to deploy 100 AI agents to tackle chronic productivity problems in building services engineering, marking one of Finland’s largest data economy pilot schemes.
AI can make us more efficient, but research warns of a price tag. When working with AI, we overestimate our abilities, our brain activity weakens, and our critical thinking diminishes. The solution is hardly to avoid new technologies, but rather to use them more wisely.
Birthday poems. Cake recipes. AI memes. Europeans are using artificial intelligence, just not at work. The technology that promised to transform productivity has become a pastime instead of a tool. And whilst the Nordics integrate AI into their workplaces, southern Europe watches from behind.
