Stockholm AI Newsletter #15 - 25 September 2025
- Prince Victor Orjiugo
- Sep 28
- 9 min read
Dear Stockholm AI Community,
We kicked off our autumn event season with a bang - first with a 200 attendee signup on a massive agentic event featuring Ericsson x Anthropic x Mistral at Ericsson HQ in Kista; followed by another big event at The Park - AI and Behavioural Sciences - featuring InsightGenie, Furhat Robotics, and Stockholm University. We also launched the Stockholm AI blog, where you will find detailed summaries and takeaways from past events, as well as any other interesting news and insights for our community. We are working VERY hard to bring you a very cool podcast series - stay tuned! And naturally, we have tons of events in the planning for the autumn and the winter, including some heavy research and academia-focused events - so once again…STAY TUNED!
Your newsletter team: Christoffer Stuart, Ali Leylani, Armin Catovic, Prince Victor Orjiugo, Reza Malekzadgan, Joana Fonseca, Alex Patow, and Maria Lindström.
Upcoming Events
Future of Everything Autonomous (Zenseact x Microsoft)
Tuesday 1 October, Forskaren, The Park (Stockholm)
Technical event featuring presentations spanning mobility, industry and beyond - as well as a panel discussion and lightning talks. Register here!
AI and Industry
November (TBD), Location TBD
We are once again partnering up with Codon Consulting to deliver an event focused on AI applications in more traditional industries.
Other Sthlm AI Events
We are always cooking up something special, and while we haven’t 100% settled on the dates and full agendas as yet, we have the following events in the planning for the autumn/winter:
AI and Medicine
AI and Research
European Sovereign AI with Evroc (and special guests!)
Non-Stockholm AI Events
The following are some of the events that are not directly organized by Sthlm AI, but either involve SthlmAI representatives, or are deemed to be of high interest to our community.
9-10 October, “AI for Humanity and Society 2025”, WASP-HS & Stockholm School of Economics; our vice-chair Armin Catovic will participate in a panel discussion concerning “Algorithmic Augmentation and Expertise in Organizations”; register here.
15 October, “Nordic Legal Tech Day”, LegalWorks; Stockholm AI is represented yet again. Here, our Chairman Ali Leylani joins a panel to discuss How to protect your digital assets in the age of AI; register here.
16 October, “Deploying Trustworthy AI in Healthcare - Validation and Adoption”, Karolinska; register here
22 October, “Nordic HPC Summit 2025”; register here
Recap of Past Events
Building Agentic AI and Autonomy at Global Scale (Ericsson x Anthropic x Mistral AI), Ericsson HQ, 4 September
We had one of the largest Sthlm AI events in recent times - over 200 signups and three amazing companies giving the community "all things agents" 🤖!
Led and moderated by Aloi's Head of AI and our own Vice Chair, Armin Catovic, the community absorbed from the best and the brightest in the field. Among the main takeaways:
Jörg Niemöller from Ericsson presented the ongoing work on intent-driven autonomous networks - work that started in 2019 with roots in propositional logic, which has now evolved to modern LLM-based agents. We see the complexity of implementing agents in real networks, in terms of determinism and guarantees, security, telco regulation, and general performance
Corentin Petit from Mistral AI gave us the rundown on Mistral offerings in the agentic arena, and a strong statement that the future of AI (and Mistral's roadmap) is "open models" - not closed/proprietary models
Christian Ryan from Anthropic gave us some useful best practices on building agents - instead of going crazy with agentic mesh - keep it simple, prioritize transparency, and put emphasis on evals and observability
We also had a 30 minute panel afterwards where we discussed the implications of agentic AI in telecom networks and the society as a whole - the main takeaway being that while we can see huge benefits of agentic AI, we also foresee big security issues.
We would like to thank all the speakers and their teams, all the attendees, our community volunteers, and, of course, a big thanks to Ericsson for hosting us and, particularly, a HUGE thanks to Carolyn Cartwright for doing a LOT of work in prepping the event! . And for those who couldn’t join us, the recap blog post is available here.
AI in Behavioural Sciences (InsightGenie x Furhat Robotics x Stockholm University x Empatik), The Park Forskaren, 11 September
At our behavioural sciences event at The Park Forskaren, we tackled several questions of deep gravitas:
What is the scientific connection behind AI, neuroscience, and psychology?
Can AI-driven thought manipulation be transformed into a force for good?
How should we think in designing anthropogenic robots?
What new power dynamics emerge in the era of AI?
... and much more!
A big thanks to our speakers and panel members:
Hayk Hakobyan, CEO of InsightGenie
Gabriel Skantze, Co-founder & Chief Scientist Furhat Robotics
Donald McMillan, Associate Professor, Stockholm University
Ulrik R-T, CEO Empatik
It's clear that this topic resonated strongly and that it is a conversation of absolute importance. Expect us to circle back into this topic again in the very near term. And for those who couldn’t join us, the recordings are available here and here. A special thanks to our main sponsor of the night, InsightGenie, our friends over at The Park & our insanely talented event team - this time led by the amazing Hussein Chukair.
Sponsors
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Venue Partners
 The Park Forskaren is a creative and dynamic coworking space located in the heart of Hagastaden. Here, we create a strong community for stakeholders in Life Science, Tech, Sustainability, and Innovation. Researchers, startups, advisors, and large companies gather here alongside investors and academic institutions to promote collaboration and groundbreaking ideas. |
Local AI News
Anders Arpteg x AI-Podden News Roundup
Anders Arpteg, the Head of AI at GlobalConnect and long-time member of the community, was also present at our large Ericsson x Anthropic x Mistral event. Always interested in security aspects, Anders probed Mistral peeps on the question of “open vs closed models” vis-a-vis security. On the one hand open models allow anyone to test their innards and understand what they are deploying in the wild, whilst on the other hand their accessibility makes them a powerful tool in the hands of bad actors. On the opposite end of the spectrum, closed models allow more control, safety and guardrails, particularly since companies such as Anthropic are placing significant emphasis on these aspects; however the models are then controlled (and aligned) by a select few. This, as well as other aspects such as context engineering and Anthropic’s definition of agents, are covered by Anders and Ather Gattami in the latest edition of AI-Podden.
Workday acquires Sana AI for $1.1b USD
Workday (US company) has agreed to acquire Sana, a Swedish based AI-powered enterprise knowledge tools company, for about $1.1 billion, in a deal expected to close in Q4 of Workday’s fiscal 2026 (which ends January 31, 2026). The acquisition aims to combine Sana’s tools (notably Sana Agents and Sana Learn) with Workday’s data, context, HR/finance systems, and agent platforms to create a more proactive, personalized, and intelligent “front door” for employees. Sana’s technology will let users search across many enterprise data sources, automate workflows, assist in creating documents and learning content, and anticipate employee needs. Workday positions this move as part of its vision to reimagine work, boosting learning, upskilling, and productivity via AI, with Sana’s “learning agents” complementing Workday’s offerings in talent optimization, internal mobility, etc.
Sources: [1]
Sweden leads the way in AI and music rights
This week, Stockholm-based music rights group STIM announced what it calls the world’s first collective AI licence for music. The agreement sets a new precedent: artists whose work is used to train artificial intelligence models will now be compensated.
Why does this matter? For years, musicians have raised concerns that their songs were being fed into AI systems without permission or payment. With this deal, Sweden is putting a spotlight on fairness in the digital era, balancing technological innovation with the protection of creative labor.
The move also raises bigger questions: Could this become the model for how other countries handle AI and copyright? And how will this shape the future relationship between tech companies and artists?
Source [1]
Global AI News
Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated books used to train AI chatbots
Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5b USD to settle a lawsuit involving book authors that claim the AI company used pirated copies of the works to train their Claude models. Anthropic agreed to pay approximately $3k USD per book (out of estimated 500 000 works covered by the settlement). However, the judge in the case later denied without prejudice the settlement, claiming the deal was rushed and forced onto the claimants. As of this writing it is still unclear the status of the case.
Mistral AI raises 1.7B€ to accelerate technological progress with AI
Shortly after our large Sthlm AI event, Mistral publicly announced a Series C funding round of 1.7B€ at a 11.7B€ post-money valuation. The largest stakeholder in Mistral is now a Dutch semiconductor company ASML, famous for its global dominance on lithography machines critical for CPUs and GPUs. This investment makes Mistral the largest AI company in Europe by valuation, and it also provides a significant boost for a self-sufficient AI value chain in Europe (silicon and the models).
“This investment brings together two technology leaders operating in the same value chain. We have the ambition to help ASML and its numerous partners solve current and future engineering challenges through AI, and ultimately to advance the full semiconductor and AI value chain” - Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch.
Sources: [1]
NVIDIA to invest $100b USD and 10 gigawatts of compute in OpenAI
OpenAI and NVIDIA have formed a strategic partnership in which NVIDIA will invest up to $100 billion as OpenAI deploys at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems to power its next-generation AI infrastructure, with the first gigawatt on NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform expected online in the second half of 2026. Under the deal, NVIDIA becomes OpenAI’s preferred partner for compute and networking, and the two companies will tightly align their hardware and software roadmaps to improve efficiency and performance. The agreement underscores the massive scale and cost of advancing AI toward superintelligence, highlighting both the growing demand for compute and the importance of deep integration between cutting-edge hardware and AI model development.
Sources: [1]
Job Alerts
AI Solutions Engineer @ Redeploy (Stockholm · Hybrid)
Redeploy is a fast-growing tech consultancy helping companies across the Nordics transform with Cloud, Data, and AI. They’re now hiring an AI Solutions Engineer to join their AI Engineering team, working with advanced GenAI, LLMs, automation, and analytics to build production-ready AI solutions that make a real impact.
This role offers hands-on technical challenges, cross-functional teamwork, and plenty of room to grow, whether you’re aiming to deepen your craft, lead projects, or become a thought leader in AI.
Apply now: Redeploy Careers
Researcher in Intersectional Feminist AI for Justice & Sustainability @ KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm)
KTH is hiring a motivated researcher to join the project Intersectional Feminist AI for Visibility, Justice, and Sustainability. The work sits at the crossroads of computer science, feminist theory, and social justice, developing tools and frameworks for accountable, inclusive, and sustainable AI systems.
Deadline: Sept 27, 2025
Apply here: KTH Careers
Thesis Project (30 credits) – AI for Drug Discovery @ AstraZeneca (Gothenburg)Join AstraZeneca’s MolecularAI group in Gothenburg for a Spring 2026 master’s thesis. Work with AI/ML on molecular design, LLMs for chemistry, diffusion models, simulations, and more, no chemistry background required.
Deadline: Sept 30, 2025
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