Has AI Hit Its Glass Ceiling? Quantum IPOs at 500x Rev?! & Siri Goes Google!

Upside is a weekly show that looks behind the headlines that will affect European venture, start-ups and investing. On the show this week: 3:03 — SpaceX IPO day: pop, flop or nothing-burger? 7:16 — OpenAI files for IPO — own OpenAI at $1tn or Anthropic at $965bn? 9:50 — Bending Spoons files for Nasdaq: Europe's app-Berkshire 14:01 — ECB's first hike since 2023, and Iran 14:35 — European Quantum Week: inside OQC's £260m round 24:45 — Quantum sensing: navigation without GPS 31:08 — Fable & Mythos: Anthropic's new model and the AI glass ceiling 41:30 — AI safety, ENISA and CADA: the European sovereignty angle 46:17 — Lumen Sovereign: Britain's first sovereign frontier model 54:55 — UK AI Hardware Week: the £1.1bn plan & the Playground Global cheque 1:05:50 — WWDC: Siri reborn with Google Gemini under the hood 1:06:58 — Deal of the week: ICEYE (Finland) 1:07:56 — Deal of the week: Neura Robotics (Germany) 1:10:30 — The week ahead: SpaceX trades, Bending Spoons, AI Act loosening, Accenture This week's guest Callum Stewart — Investment Principal, Bullhound Capital Hosts Mads Jensen (SuperSeed) & Andrew Scott (7percent Ventures) Links & sources Quantum OQC Series C: https://oqc.tech/company/newsroom/ser... BBB £100m into OQC: https://www.british-business-bank.co.... Quobly €115m Series A: https://www.quobly.io/press-releases/... IQM upsized PIPE: https://thequantuminsider.com/2026/06... Anthropic — Fable & Mythos https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude... https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/09/ant... https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-rel... ENISA / Mythos access: https://thenextweb.com/news/anthropic... Lumen Sovereign https://cosine.sh/blog/building-lumen... https://tech.eu/2026/06/08/cosine-sec... UK AI Hardware Week Gov £1.1bn plan: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/a-... BBB / Playground Global: https://www.british-business-bank.co.... AMD up to £2bn: https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-... WWDC / Siri https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... EU rejects exemption: https://www.techtimes.com/articles/31... Deals of the week ICEYE €450m: https://tech.eu/2026/06/09/iceye-rais... Neura Robotics: https://www.ft.com/content/237f10c2-b...

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