A Scaleway-led AION consortium, with backing from Iliad, GENCI, Inria, Eviden, SiPearl, Hugging Face, and Mistral-adjacent partners, is positioning France as a single-country bidder against multi-state proposals from Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands…
Pope Leo XIV used a historic visit to Europe’s largest university to denounce the growing role of artificial intelligence in warfare, warning that investments in AI-directed weaponry are driving the world toward what he called a “spiral of annihilati…
XPeng (XPEV) is in talks with Volkswagen about acquiring a factory in Europe as the Chinese EV maker’s contract production in Austria runs out of capacity. The company’s exports hit a record 6,006 vehicles in April, up 62% year-over-year.
The move c…
Digital transformation minister Óscar López says ‘the profit of four tech companies cannot come at the expense of the rights of millions’ as Madrid’s regulatory package moves through parliament. Spain’s digital transformation minister, Óscar López, sai…
Europe’s external dependency exposes more than its AI sovereignty. It also affects its data sovereignty and creates political exposure. In a previous article, we discussed how Europe is heavily dependent on external providers for AI development, partic…
The Grand Chamber of the CJEU heard ByteDance’s appeal in Case C-627/24 P on Tuesday, the first DMA gatekeeper challenge to reach the bloc’s highest court. ByteDance’s TikTok went before the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union o…
Tomoro was created in 2023 in alliance with OpenAI. The Edinburgh and London-based firm built AI concierges for Virgin Atlantic, in-game support agents for Supercell, and deployment systems for Fidelity International, Tesco, Red Bull, Mattel, and the…
Tesla has quietly removed Basic Autopilot from its online configurator in the Netherlands. New orders now only offer Full Self-Driving (Supervised) — no free driver-assistance tier at all.
The change makes the Netherlands the first European market w…
The European Commission president said an EU age-verification app is technically complete and that bloc-level rules on minimum social-media ages are next. France, Spain, and several others are already moving alone. European Commission President Ursula …
New AutoMotive’s data tracker, reported by Reuters on Sunday, marks the threshold and puts the question to industrial policy: how much of the headline number will end up producing cells at scale, given that roughly 600 GWh of announced European battery…