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13 October 2026
Europe’s AI week kept circling back to a simple question: can you move from prototypes to operating systems, fast enough to justify the money? French deeptech HyLight raised €13 million to take autonomous hydrogen-powered airships from four aircraft to 15 within a year, using onboard AI to support aerial inspection of critical infrastructure. That same “edge, but operational” theme showed up in Ubitium’s $14 million seed to push the UB410 reconfigurable processor toward commercialisation in 2027, targeting physical AI that senses, runs inference, and controls movements on a single chip. Even the back office got the treatment: reebuild says it cut invoice processing from more than 20 minutes to about three, and Alchera wants transport planning to go from weeks to seconds for councils and highway operators.
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