Finnish companies are buying AI, not building it
Finland offers extensive R&D support, yet too few companies use it to turn AI adoption into sustained innovation and business value.
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Google to invest €13bn in Finland over two years, betting on nuclear power for AI growth
The tech giant’s spending plan for 2027 and 2028 will expand data centre capacity across four Finnish municipalities and is tied to a 22-year nuclear power agreement, as the company frames the deal as a…
FAIR expert Anna Kantosalo named co-chair of international AI conference — creative industries FAIR’s largest client group
FAIR expert Anna Kantosalo has been named co-chair of the programme committee at a leading international conference on computational creativity. The international recognition highlights Finnish expertise in creative AI. Creative industries emerged as FAIR’s largest…
VTT and Millog to combine forces on NATO defence-tech testing, expanding earlier partnership
Finnish research institute VTT and defence maintenance firm Millog will jointly staff Finland’s NATO DIANA test centre, adding field-testing capacity to a facility built to validate emerging technologies for both civilian and military use.
YIT and atNorth expand Kouvola data centre partnership with second contract, terms undisclosed
Finnish construction firm YIT will build a second facility at atNorth’s FIN04 data centre campus in Kouvola, extending a partnership that saw the companies sign a €300m deal for an earlier phase of the same…
Espoo startup raises €2.6m to build superconducting transistors, targeting quantum computing’s scaling bottleneck
S-Transistors, spun out of Finnish research institute VTT, says its new class of transistor could let quantum computers control qubits from inside the cryostat rather than through external wiring — a problem the industry has…
EuroHPC signs €387.8m deal for LUMI-AI supercomputer, tenfold AI capacity boost planned for Finland
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has contracted Bull, the French supercomputing firm now owned by the French State, to build LUMI-AI, a system expected to deliver ten times the AI processing capacity of the current LUMI…
AI Already Manages Half of Finland’s Knowledge Workers, New Book Finds
Haaga-Helia’s “AI as a Boss” shows algorithmic management has moved from concept to daily reality — and that managers trust the machines more than expected.
AI Can Now Tell Trees Apart From the Air Almost as Well as Humans Can
Finnish researchers have taught computers to identify individual tree species from helicopter-mounted laser scanners with striking accuracy — a breakthrough that could reshape how forests are surveyed, managed, and protected.
Aiforia secures €20m EU financing for AI cancer detection
The European Investment Bank has signed a €20m venture debt agreement with Finnish life-science company Aiforia, backing further development of its AI platform for detecting cancer in tissue samples. The financing is supported under the…