{"id":1039004,"date":"2026-09-28T08:07:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T02:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039004"},"modified":"2026-09-28T08:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T02:40:32","slug":"ai-startup-black-forest-labs-urges-optimism-from-europe-despite-safety-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/28\/ai-startup-black-forest-labs-urges-optimism-from-europe-despite-safety-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"AI startup Black Forest Labs urges optimism from Europe despite safety fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe needs to view artificial intelligence with more optimism &#8212; despite growing warnings about its dangers &#8212; or risk falling further behind, the head of a leading European AI start-up warned. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the mindset in Europe needs to shift to one of optimism and to one of opportunity, and not to one of risk and fear,&#8221; Robin Rombach, CEO of German AI image generation specialist Black Forest Labs, told AFP. <\/p>\n<p>Europe lags behind the United States and China when it comes to cutting-edge AI models. Policymakers and firms have been scrambling to find ways to make up lost ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe needs to view artificial intelligence with more optimism &#8212; despite growing warnings about its dangers &#8212; or risk falling further behind, the head of a leading European AI start-up warned. &#8220;I think the mindset in Europe needs to shift to one of optimism and to one of opportunity, and not to one of risk and fear,&#8221; Robin Rombach, CEO of German AI image generation specialist Black Forest Labs, told AFP. Europe lags behind the United States and China when it comes to cutting-edge AI models. Policymakers and firms have been scrambling to find ways to make up lost ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039023,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039004\/revisions\/1039023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}