etn. — the European Technology Network — is Europe's daily live technology show. It broadcasts three hours a day from a studio in King's Cross, London, covering European startups, frontier AI labs and technology policy, and streams free on X and YouTube.

etn. is hosted by its co-founders, Luke Knight and Ronan Chambers, who started the show in October 2025.

etn. is live every weekday, Monday to Friday, from 12:00 to 15:00 UK time, followed by long-form guest interviews.

Where can I watch etn.?

etn. streams live on X and YouTube, and full episodes are published as a podcast on Spotify. Watching is free and requires no subscription.

Who has appeared on etn.?

Guests have included former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the UK's first AI minister Kanishka Narayan, Sequoia partner George Robson, and founders from Synthesia, Legora and Granola.

etn. raised a $1.6 million seed round announced in July 2026, backed by Powerhouse Capital, Axel Springer SE, a co-founder of LADbible, and angel investors from OpenAI and Google DeepMind.

Dr. Andre Retterath

General Partner @EarlybirdVC

@AndreRetterath

1 episode · 3 moments · last on 1 May 2026

1 May 2026Earnings Call Bonanza, OpenAI Trial, Legora $50M Extension CRO Joins, King Charles Dinner

57:187 min

Musk vs Altman: The OpenAI 'Stolen Charity' Trial Begins

The hosts dig into the Musk v. OpenAI trial, where Musk testified that OpenAI 'stole a charity' by converting into a for-profit now valued at $850B, with his lawyer likening OpenAI to a museum selling the Picasso from its gift shop. They walk through early exhibits from The Verge, including a 2015 Altman-Musk email about recruiting donations from Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg and Musk's governance demands, plus courtroom memes.

1:04:2216 min

Jarek Kutylowski (DeepL): Real-Time Voice-to-Voice Translation

DeepL founder and CEO Jarek Kutylowski explains the company's push into real-time voice-to-voice translation and why language is a bottleneck both inside global companies and for entering new markets. He argues enterprises are moving past POCs toward specialized vendors, credits product-plus-research focus for DeepL's roughly 82% adoption, and points to embedded translation in customer service as the near-term roadmap.

1:37:3617 min

Dr. Andre Retterath (Earlybird VC): €360M Fund & Augmented VC

Earlybird GP Dr. Andre Retterath announces the firm's new €360M early-stage fund, its largest ever, and walks through its deep tech, infrastructure/foundation model, and AI application theses. He explains how AI collapsed the cost of generation and shifted the bottleneck to distribution, details Earlybird's in-house data stack and 'augmented VC' philosophy, and argues public markets are entering an accountability phase after the capex build-out.