The case for artificial intelligence in Germany is being made, increasingly, in the language of arithmetic rather than ambition. The country does not have enough workers, and AI is being pitched as a way to need fewer of them. The concrete version of t…
European government has, in writing, asked the European Union to find a way to host an American artificial-intelligence company. The request is unusual enough that the official making it conceded, in the same breath, that people would doubt it could be…
Volkswagen reportedly wants to cut 100,000 jobs, about 15% of its workforce, and close German plants. It would be the biggest overhaul in the carmaker’s history, and the unions are vowing to fight. Europe’s car industry is shrinking, and its biggest na…
The institution that counts France found itself counting victims this week. INSEE, the national statistics department, said a cyberattack had exposed personal data belonging to about 12,800 current and former staff, along with members of the civil-serv…
The regulator says customers were moved to a pricier Copilot-bundled plan unless they actively opted out, with too little information to choose. The mechanics of a price rise can matter as much as the price itself, which is the question Italy’s competi…
Tesla plans to hire another 1,000 workers at its Gigafactory outside Berlin, the automaker confirmed Thursday, as it moves to ramp production at its only European plant.
The hiring push comes as Tesla targets 7,500 vehicles per week at the Grünheide fa…
The partnership will fund EU AI hardware and data centres, and launch aiUSX, a yield asset that puts companies’ idle AI cash to work as infrastructure lending. Building sovereign AI in Europe takes chips, and chips take capital. TensorX and Solstice sa…
The European Commission told Amazon and Microsoft that it takes the preliminary view that their cloud arms, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act. The wording matters more than it loo…
Brussels is joining a Washington-led effort to secure AI chip supply chains, a fortnight after unveiling a tech-sovereignty agenda built on the opposite instinct. The European Union is set to join Pax Silica, the US-led initiative to coordinate AI chip…
The actor and MEP Eva Maydell revealed RSL Media’s Human Consent Registry at the European Parliament, a tool that lets anyone set the terms on which AI can use their name, face and voice. The context is disarmingly simple: your face, your voice, your n…