The week of IO+: We're covering your commute
Our weekly overview offers an overview of the most interesting stories around key innovations every Sunday.
Published on August 31, 2025
Bart, co-founder of Media52 and Professor of Journalism oversees IO+, events, and Laio. A journalist at heart, he keeps writing as many stories as possible.
Every day at 6:30 a.m., our IO+ Daily is released on Spotify. It’s the ideal way to fill your brain with some positive news from the world of innovation and technology. In less than ten minutes, our AI-voices (named Oliver and Shelby) discuss two intriguing topics for you. So even if your commute is short, it’s long enough to get yourself inspired for the whole day. It literally gets you going.
But… how about the credibility of an AI-supported podcast? Well, we’ve got you covered there. The stories on the IO+ Daily are based on the articles that are published on the IO+ website. These articles are always journalist-sourced and fact-checked. From there, we feed these stories into our own Laio podcast engine. This machine, called Podcaist and also publicly available via podcaist.com, turns the stories into a conversation. Laio ensures that no external aspects are added (only conversational elements), resulting in a fully fact-based outcome.
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Why don’t you give it a try? Click here for the latest episodes. Or, if you’re interested, consider creating your own podcast channel using podcaist.com.
In the same Spotify channel, you will also find a series of podcasts that we are producing in the run-up to our Watt Matters in AI conference. We have mentioned this before: on November 26, we will bring together a group of experts to look at possible solutions to curb AI's energy hunger. Order your tickets here (and if you do so today, you can still take advantage of the Early Bird discount!).
And while we're on the subject of that conference, there are a few more very interesting stories in which we take a closer look at solutions for the excessive energy consumption of systems that use AI. Here’s our latest one, an interview with data center boss Stijn Grove. Read all the stories here.
A selection of this week’s other highlights:
- We’re in an A.I. Bubble. No, We’re Not.
- Quantum revolution: ‘The Netherlands has a strong position’
- New anode boosts battery energy density by 50%
- Who will win €50,000? Last chance for AI startups
- Navigating without Google: European alternatives
- Hable acquires an app helping the visually impaired
- Q*Bird is building the quantum internet of tomorrow
- Drone powered by liquid hydrogen takes to the skies
- Google measures and shares the environmental cost of AI prompts
- ‘Healthcare is unprepared for the good advice by Doctor ChatGPT’
Enjoy your Sunday, and remember that tomorrow morning at 6:30 a.m., a new episode of the IO+ Daily is waiting for you.