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RAISE Summit hit by power outage during keynote with Mozilla president and Mistral CEO

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and Mozilla president Mark Surman were making the case for open-source AI’s reliability at RAISE Summit. Then the venue lost power, and their fireside chat finished almost in the dark. It was, in fairness, the perfect cue. Midway through a RAISE Summit fireside chat on open-source AI, the Master Stage lost […]

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Nomagic’s warehouse robots got an AI brain, and it halved the calls for human help

Nomagic, a Warsaw-based warehouse robotics firm, put a vision-language-action model into live customer operations. It says the model roughly halved the rate at which its robots stall for human help. Its new AI lab, run by a former Google DeepMind researcher, is betting on mastery before generality. A Polish robotics company has quietly done the […]

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Apple loses its EU court challenge over gatekeeper status under the DMA

Apple has spent two years arguing that Europe’s digital rulebook should not apply to it in quite the way Brussels insists. On Wednesday, the EU’s General Court told it, in effect, that it does. The court threw out Apple’s challenge to being labelled a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act, the designation that ties the […]

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Londoners fight a Brick Lane datacentre, and it is not even for AI

Residents in east London are fighting a datacentre planned for Brick Lane, saying the site should hold homes, not servers. The twist: it would serve high-frequency trading, not AI. Britain’s datacentre backlash has reached the heart of east London. Residents around Brick Lane oppose a plan for the old Truman Brewery site. It would put […]

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UK tech secretary backs driverless cars as Burnham’s team gets cold feet

Britain’s tech secretary backs driverless cars and British AI startups. The likely next prime minister’s team has doubts, and her own job is on the line. Liz Kendall wants Britain to back its own AI companies before someone else does. In a Sifted podcast, Kendall, the UK’s science and technology secretary, made a pointed case […]

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UiPath’s Dines: not hiring juniors is a mistake

At the Raise summit in Paris, two enterprise leaders asked why AI agents keep stalling in pilots. Their fix starts with people, not models. Most enterprises stall. Their AI agents run in pilots and never reach production. That was the blunt diagnosis from Daniel Dines, chief executive of UiPath. He spoke at the RAISE CxO […]

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Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony fight Belgium’s creator-pay law at the EU court

Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony have taken Belgium to Europe’s top court. They say its copyright law forces platforms to pay creators far beyond what the EU intended. Four of the biggest names in tech asked the EU’s Court of Justice on Tuesday to rein in Belgium. They say the country rewrote who gets paid […]

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Scotland could freeze new datacentres, threatening the UK’s AI plan

Scotland’s governing party wants to freeze every new datacentre in the country. If ministers agree, a core pillar of the UK’s AI strategy could stall. The Scottish government is weighing a sweeping moratorium on new datacentres. Last Sunday, the Scottish National Party (SNP) voted to freeze all new builds, the Guardian reports. The motion now […]

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AI writing tools can subtly steer public opinion, Oxford study finds

You ask an AI to polish your post. It keeps your point, but tilts it. New Oxford research says those tiny tilts can move public opinion. AI writing tools that tidy up social media posts can quietly shift what they say, and those shifts can spread, according to a new study from the Oxford Internet […]

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Predatorgate victims sue the spyware maker for €8M

Greece’s Predator spyware scandal has reached the courts. Eight people it spied on want €1 million each from the firm that built it. Eight victims of Greece’s “Predatorgate” wiretapping scandal have sued the Athens surveillance firm Intellexa and 13 people linked to it, Reuters reports. Each is seeking €1 million in moral damages, a combined […]

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