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Agentic AI is moving from buzzword to boardroom, and we are bringing the practitioners behind that change together. The next edition of ADC's Tech Meetup is open for registration, turning the spotlight on agentic AI in 2026. Two speakers will lead the evening. 🎤 Edward Jansen, Technology and Innovation Lead at ADC, opens with "Agentic AI in 2026, the state of play", mapping the categories that matter, where production deployments are real, and what enterprises should buy versus build, drawn from work with major Dutch and European institutions. 🎤 Bauke Brenninkmeijer, AI Research Engineer at orq.ai, follows with "Red teaming your AI agent before it ships", covering the OWASP LLM Top 10, the new OWASP Agentic AI Top 10, and the attacks that matter once an LLM can act, with walkthroughs from the open source framework his team has built. And there is more. From the moment you arrive, our Demo Marketplace will be open, giving you a chance to take a peek behind the scenes at what ADC is shipping with agentic AI right now, based on real work with clients in complex and regulated industries. 📅 In person at our Amsterdam office, 9 June, 17:00 to 20:00. Seats are limited, reserve yours here: https://lnkd.in/eqyG6tf4

🚨🚨🚨 It's just a router 🚨🚨🚨 Heard this from prospects more times than I can count over the past few months. Spent the weekend debugging edge cases in our AI Router and wrote down what actually breaks when you try to build that router. Reasoning signatures that vanish on the next turn. Tool calls that duplicate side effects on retry. Fallback that silently corrupts conversations. Streaming state machines that finalize blocks too early. Single turn tests pass. Production breaks two turns later. If you are building or buying an AI router, the question is not Can it route? It is What happens on the next turn? Article in comments. ⬇️

Using a US cloud provider's European region doesn't make your AI stack sovereign. 🇪🇺 That's the part most teams get wrong... The US CLOUD Act allows American law enforcement to compel US-headquartered companies to hand over data stored abroad, including data sitting in Frankfurt or Amsterdam. If your LLM provider is incorporated in the US, your prompts are subject to US jurisdiction regardless of where the servers are physically located. This matters now. GPAI model obligations under the EU AI Act have been enforceable since August 2025. Full high-risk enforcement lands in August 2026. GDPR fines in 2025 alone reached €2.3 billion, a 38% increase year over year. The window to address this proactively is closing. ⏳ The architecture question isn't "where is the data stored?" It's "who controls the stack, and under which jurisdiction?" True data sovereignty for AI requires three things: inference staying inside EU jurisdiction, minimal retention by design, and a routing layer that can demonstrate what happened to every prompt at every step. That last part is the product design problem. Observability isn't just an engineering discipline. It's the mechanism that makes compliance auditable. A call you can't trace is a call you can't prove was handled correctly. 🔍 At orq.ai, routing policies can restrict traffic to compliant endpoints, enforce Zero Data Retention per route, and log every call in a way that survives regulatory scrutiny. Not as an account-level setting, but per policy, per team, per use case. Sovereignty isn't a checkbox. It's an architecture decision made at the routing layer. #DataSovereignty #EUAIAct #GDPR #LLMOps #AICompliance #ProductDesign #orqai #AIInfrastructure

Our co-founder Sohrab was on the Marketing From Zero To One podcast to discuss the origins of orq.ai Spotify link in the comments.

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Without ASML there would be no AI boom. Now, Dutch founders are building the next layer of the AI stack. Here are 15 Dutch AI companies worth following: 1/ Axelera AI - Fabrizio Del Maffeo AI inference chips competing with Nvidia at a fraction of the power. $250M raised, $1B+ valuation. Co-founder is an IEEE and IBM Fellow. HQ'd in Eindhoven, next to ASML. 2/ DataSnipper - Maarten Alblas, Jonas Ruyter & Kai Bakker AI audit automation used by all Big Four. $100M Series B at $1B valuation. Three UvA alumni who started it from a cafe conversation. 3/ CuspAI - Max Welling AI materials discovery. $100M Series A, nearing $1B with a $130M follow-on. Nvidia-backed. A search engine for molecules. 4/ Weaviate - Bob van Luijt & Etienne Dilocker Open-source vector database powering AI search and RAG pipelines globally. $135.8M raised. 5/ Cradle - Stef van Grieken & Elise de Reus Generative AI for protein engineering. $73M Series B, past $100M total. Index Ventures backed. 6/ Wonderful - Bar Winkler & Roey Lalazar Enterprise AI agents across 30+ countries. Israeli founders, moved HQ to Amsterdam in 2026. $150M Series B at $2B valuation. Founded to unicorn in under a year. 7/ Duna - Duco van Lanschot AI business identity for regulated enterprises. €30M Series A led by CapitalG. Built by Stripe veterans. 8/ Overstory - Indra den Bakker & Anniek Schouten AI vegetation intelligence. $43M Series B. Serves 6 of 10 largest utility companies in the Americas. 9/ Dexter Energy - Luuk Veeken AI forecasting for renewable energy. €23M Series C. Predicts wind and solar output across European markets. 10/ Source.ag - Ernst van Bruggen AI for greenhouse farming. $60M+ total raised. Powers 300 greenhouses across 18 countries. 11/ Altura AI agents for winning tenders. €8M Series A. Acquired Berlin-based Tendara to expand across Europe's €700B+ procurement market. 12/ Orq.ai - Sohrab Hosseini Enterprise AI agent runtime. €10M total raised. Recognized in three Gartner Emerging Market Quadrants. 13/ Reson8 - Thomas Kluiters, Raoul Ritter & Jarno Verhagen Speech AI for European languages. €5M pre-seed from Balderton. Building speech-to-text for 20+ languages. 14/ Minimal AI (YC S25) - Niek Hogenboom AI for e-commerce customer support. $3.6M raised. YC Summer 2025. Three people, $1M ARR in 8 months. 15/ Dashmote Coca-Cola, Nestle, Philips as clients. AI sales assistant for field reps. $9.3M total raised. Two corridors are feeding the Dutch ecosystem. ASML's Eindhoven corridor produces the hardware side. The Amsterdam-UvA-Booking.com corridor produces the software side. DataSnipper's founders are UvA alumni. Duna's team came through Stripe's Amsterdam hub. Axelera AI sits in ASML's backyard. -- Who else belongs on this list?