EUVC E700 | This Week in European Tech with Dan Bowyer, Lomax Ward & Eyal Malinger
Feb 23, 2026
Eyal Malinger, tech entrepreneur and investor who co-founded Resurge Growth Partners, explains the venture-equity approach. Conversations jump from China’s humanoid robots and battlefield AI ethics to Raspberry Pi’s edge-AI buzz. They also cover talent migration to the US, Munich security takeaways about defense and sovereignty, and big bets in quantum and billion-dollar AI seed rounds.
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China's Hardware Versus US AI Creates Military Risk
- China owns humanoid robot hardware scale while the US leads on AI "brains", creating a split between cheap bodies and advanced software.
- Eyal Malinger warns this combo raises battlefield risk because manufacturing scale plus AI could yield decisive military tech.
Ethical AI Limits Clash With Deterrence Logic
- Anthropic's refusal to let models make autonomous kill decisions highlights a moral stance that may clash with adversaries who don't self-restrict.
- Eyal contrasts Palantir's deterrence logic, arguing ethics won't stop rivals from proceeding without limits.
Peter Steinberger's Fast Exit Shows Europe's Talent Drain
- Peter Steinberger's quick move from his European moment to OpenAI illustrated Europe losing top talent to US scale and velocity.
- Dan Bowyer and Lomax Ward noted the fast poaching by US firms and the missing European counteroffers.