Welcome back to another episode of Upside where Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen of SuperSeed go behind the headlines shaping European tech, capital, and power.
This week we’re joined by Eyal Malinger, co-founder of Resurge Growth Partners, to unpack a genuinely strange week in global tech.
China unveils humanoid robots that look disturbingly battlefield-ready. Anthropic tries to draw moral lines in defence AI. Peter Steinberger leaves Europe almost as fast as he went viral. Munich becomes less “security conference” and more “Europe, wake up.” And in the background, billion-dollar AI seed rounds and quantum mega-funds quietly signal that the frontier is accelerating again.
This isn’t just a tech cycle.
It feels like a systems cycle.
This is Upside, where optimism is earned, not assumed.
What’s covered:
02:10 China’s humanoid robot moment: hardware dominance meets AI brains
06:20 Battlefield AI and the ethics problem Anthropic can’t avoid
14:00 Raspberry Pi, edge AI, and Europe’s accidental meme stock
20:30 Anthropic vs Palantir: moral lines vs deterrence logic
25:10 Peter Steinberger leaves Europe — ecosystem gravity in action
31:00 AI inside venture: workflow automation vs real alpha
43:00 Munich Security Conference: defence budgets, sovereignty, and Stark vs Thiel
52:10 Psychedelics and glucose monitors: Europe’s quiet biotech strength
55:30 Quantum funds and Europe’s billion-dollar AI seed round
