Europe’s push to loosen Big Tech’s grip runs into Europe’s own divisions
Europe’s push to loosen Big Tech’s grip runs into Europe’s own divisions

The Tech Sovereignty Package arrives on Wednesday, but the EU is still arguing internally over what ‘digital sovereignty’ should actually require. The European Commission is preparing to publish its Tech Sovereignty Package on Wednesday afternoon, the …

The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity
The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity

The Dutch government has imposed a “complete prohibition” on the acquisition of Solvinity, a Dutch cloud provider, by Kyndryl, the American IT infrastructure company spun out of IBM in 2021. The deal, valued at roughly €100 million, would have given a …

xAI told staff to stop mingling with Cursor employees, weeks after they started working together
xAI told staff to stop mingling with Cursor employees, weeks after they started working together

  Elon Musk’s xAI has told employees to limit their contact with staff from Cursor , the AI coding startup that SpaceX has an option to acquire for $60 billion. The directive came from James Burnham, xAI’s general counsel and former chief lawyer at the…

China extends AI travel curbs from DeepSeek to other private firms
China extends AI travel curbs from DeepSeek to other private firms

Top researchers at private Chinese AI companies are being asked to surrender passports, in a quiet expansion of the controls that began at DeepSeek earlier this year. China is widening its informal travel restrictions on senior AI researchers, extendin…

Spain blocks Polymarket and Kalshi over missing gambling licences
Spain blocks Polymarket and Kalshi over missing gambling licences

A three-to-four month suspension while Madrid’s gambling watchdog investigates makes Spain the latest European jurisdiction to treat prediction markets as unlicensed betting. Spain has temporarily blocked the US-based prediction markets Polymarket and …

Brussels prepares biggest-ever DMA penalty for Google
Brussels prepares biggest-ever DMA penalty for Google

The European Commission is preparing to fine Google a sum running into the high hundreds of millions of euros for breaching the Digital Markets Act, according to a Handelsblatt report on Monday, in what would be the largest penalty ever issued under th…

China is giving every humanoid robot a 29-character ID code, and over 28,000 already have one
China is giving every humanoid robot a 29-character ID code, and over 28,000 already have one

Summary: China has launched a national ID system for humanoid robots, assigning each a 29-character code that tracks it from production to recycling. Over 28,000 robots across 200 models already have IDs. The system logs real-time performance data incl…

The ECB is convening banks to fix the cybersecurity flaws that AI models like Mythos keep finding
The ECB is convening banks to fix the cybersecurity flaws that AI models like Mythos keep finding

The European Central Bank is calling banks in for a meeting on Tuesday to address the cybersecurity risks created by a new generation of AI models that can find and exploit software vulnerabilities faster than any human team. The meeting follows months…

Huawei unveils ‘Tau Scaling Law’ as China’s workaround for US chip sanctions
Huawei unveils ‘Tau Scaling Law’ as China’s workaround for US chip sanctions

He Tingbo used a Shanghai keynote to argue that cutting signal-propagation time, not shrinking transistors, is the new frontier, and that Huawei has been quietly building chips around the idea for six years. Huawei used the opening day of the IEEE Inte…

Two Amazon data centres in the UAE were hit by drones. The Gulf’s AI ambitions are being tested.
Two Amazon data centres in the UAE were hit by drones. The Gulf’s AI ambitions are being tested.

Two Amazon Web Services data centres in the UAE were targeted early in the Middle East war. Nearly three months later, oil prices remain around $100 a barrel and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. The Gulf’s ambition to become a global AI hub is faci…