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Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: The First Big Test of AI Sovereignty

Anthropic’s clash with the Pentagon is the first major test of AI sovereignty. We analyse what’s at stake for AI labs, investors and Europe.

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OpenAI’s Enterprise Reality Check: Why GenAI Still Hasn’t Rewired Business

OpenAI admits generative AI hasn’t truly penetrated enterprise processes. Here’s why that gap exists, what Frontier really signals, and how it reshapes the AI race for global and European companies.

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Google’s Opal becomes an AI workflow engine – and the no‑code stakes just changed

Google’s new Opal agent turns chat prompts into automated workflows, raising the stakes for no‑code tools, AI agents and Europe’s regulators.

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Oura’s Women-Focused AI Is Really a Data Power Play

Oura’s new women-focused AI model is a strategic data play in digital health, with big implications for privacy, regulation and the future of wearables.

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Meta’s $100B AMD Bet: Chips, Power and the Myth of ‘Personal Superintelligence’

Meta’s up-to-$100B AMD deal is more than chip shopping. It’s a power grab in AI infrastructure, with huge energy, competition and regulatory stakes.

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Google Labs adopts ProducerAI: when AI music stops being a toy

ProducerAI joins Google Labs: what Google’s new AI music push means for creators, competitors and EU regulators.

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Meta’s 6‑Gigawatt Bet: When Your AI Supplier Becomes Your Investment

Meta’s AMD deal converts AI compute into equity, reshaping chip finance, energy demand and competition. What it means for Nvidia, Europe and the AI race.

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Anthropic’s enterprise agents are really a bet against SaaS

Anthropic’s new enterprise agents and plugins aim to sit above SaaS, reshaping corporate workflows, compliance, and the power balance in enterprise AI.

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New Relic’s AI agents show where observability is really heading

New Relic’s new AI agent platform and OpenTelemetry tools signal where observability is heading: open standards at the edge, proprietary AI in the middle.

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Canva’s quiet land grab: from simple designs to a full creative and marketing OS

Canva’s buys of Cavalry and MangoAI signal a push from simple design app to full creative and AI‑driven marketing OS, with big implications for Europe.

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When Your Inbox Becomes a Test Lab: What OpenClaw’s Meltdown Really Tells Us About AI Agents

OpenClaw’s rogue inbox incident exposes how unsafe today’s AI agents are and why Europe must demand real permission models and kill switches.

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Google’s Three-Frontier Theory of AI Models Changes How We Should Build With Them

Analysis of Google Cloud’s three-frontier model for AI capability—intelligence, latency and cost—and what it means for agentic AI and European enterprises.

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Anthropic vs. DeepSeek: Distillation Wars Reveal AI’s Next Battleground

Anthropic’s clash with Chinese labs over large-scale distillation of Claude exposes AI’s next battleground: IP, chip exports, and safety-driven access controls.

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From Black Boxes to Glass Boxes: Why Guide Labs’ Interpretable LLM Is a Strategic Shock to Big AI

Guide Labs’ Steerling-8B makes every token traceable. Here’s why interpretable LLMs could reshape AI regulation, risk management and competition.

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Microsoft’s new Xbox boss wants “no bad AI” – but can she actually deliver?

Analysis of Asha Sharma’s appointment as Microsoft Gaming CEO, her hard line on “bad AI”, and what it means for Xbox, developers and European players.

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OpenAI’s consultant army: why “Frontier” is really about distribution, not just tech

OpenAI’s Frontier Alliance with top consultancies shows AI’s enterprise future will be decided by distribution, governance and vendor lock‑in, not just models.

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When “Learning” Looks Like Copying: What LLM Memorization Really Means for AI

New research shows that large language models can reproduce near-verbatim copies of novels, challenging Big AI’s legal defenses and accelerating a European-led crackdown on opaque training data.

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The Pentagon vs. Anthropic: AI’s First Big Test of Military Red Lines

Anthropic’s clash with the Pentagon over Claude and autonomous weapons is AI’s first major test of military red lines—and Europe should pay attention.

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Spotify’s AI Prompted Playlists Turn Your Life Into a Query

Spotify’s AI Prompted Playlists turn your life into a query. Here’s why that shift in interface, data and regulation matters for music’s future.

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AI Agents and the Deflationary Doom Loop: Real Risk or Thought Experiment?

Analytical look at Citrini Research’s bleak AI agent scenario: who loses, who wins, and how Europe can avoid an AI‑driven deflationary doom loop.

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India’s AI Power Play: From IT Back Office to Global Compute Superhub

India’s AI Impact Summit reveals a bold plan to become a global AI compute superhub. Here’s what it means for Big Tech, Europe, and the future of IT.

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Sam Altman’s Energy Argument Misses the Real AI Sustainability Question

Altman’s defence of AI’s energy use reframes the debate. We examine why comparing ChatGPT to human brains misses the real sustainability issues.

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Microsoft Puts an AI Veteran in Charge of Xbox – Now It Has to Prove It Still Cares About Games

Microsoft just put its CoreAI chief in charge of Xbox. Our analysis: what this means for AI in games, monetization, and Europe’s tightly regulated market.

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OpenAI, a Mass Shooting and the Birth of AI’s “Duty to Report”

OpenAI flagged a future Canadian shooter’s chats but didn’t call police. What this reveals about AI’s emerging duty to report and Europe’s privacy-first laws.

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AI Money Has Chosen Sides: What Anthropic’s Political Bet Really Means

Anthropic is funding a PAC to back an AI safety‑minded candidate against a rival AI super PAC. What this power struggle reveals about who will write AI rules.

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What Musk’s Baldur’s Gate Test Really Tells Us About xAI

Musk delaying xAI’s Grok over Baldur’s Gate answers is more than a meme. It reveals how AI labs set priorities, and why that should worry — and amuse — us.

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Indie film’s new dilemma: AI superpowers, human loneliness

AI video gives indie filmmakers blockbuster‑style powers while hollowing out crews. How Europe’s film ecosystem can embrace the tech without losing its soul.

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When Your SRE Is a Bot: What AWS’s AI Outage Really Signals

AWS’s AI coding bot Kiro helped trigger outages. Beyond "user error", this shows how agentic AI reshapes risk, governance and regulation in cloud ops.

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Toy Story 5 Makes the “Always Listening” Toy the Villain – and a Warning

Toy Story 5’s AI tablet villain turns kids’ toys into a privacy and AI ethics debate, with big implications for parents, regulators and tech makers.

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G42, Cerebras and India’s 8‑exaflop bet: when AI compute becomes geopolitics

G42 and Cerebras giving India 8 exaflops of AI compute is about sovereignty, geopolitics and who will write the rules of the AI era.

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India’s AI Generation: Why OpenAI Is Betting Big on Young Coders

OpenAI’s India numbers reveal a youth-driven, coding-heavy AI boom—and a coming shock for Europe’s software and outsourcing landscape.

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India’s AI Summit Signals a New Power Center — And a Wake‑Up Call for the Rest of the World

India’s AI Summit shows the country aiming to be a third global AI power. What that means for infrastructure, talent, Europe and the future of AI geopolitics.

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Google’s Gemini 3.1 wins the benchmark war. The real battle is elsewhere

Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro tops key AI benchmarks, but the real battle is shifting from scores to reliability, governance, and who controls agentic AI.

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YouTube Turns Your TV Into a Chatbot: Smart Upgrade or Walled Garden?

YouTube is testing conversational AI on smart TVs. We analyse how this reshapes the living room, boosts Google’s power, and raises new issues for Europe.

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Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro: Real Reasoning Breakthrough or Just Better Benchmarks?

Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro boosts reasoning and agent performance, but the real story is platform lock‑in, enterprise trust, and looming EU regulation.

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Reddit Wants to Turn ‘r/BuyItForLife’ Into a Cash Register. Can AI Do It Without Breaking Trust?

Reddit is testing AI-powered shopping search. Here’s why it’s a big bet on search, a risk to community trust, and a likely flashpoint for EU rules.

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OpenClaw Shows Why Agentic AI Is the Next Big Security Headache

OpenClaw’s chaos shows why agentic AI is the next big security risk – and why enterprises urgently need an AI control layer before agents go mainstream.

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The Handshake That Didn’t Happen: What Altman vs. Amodei in India Really Tells Us About AI Power

Sam Altman and Dario Amodei’s awkward non-handshake in India reveals a deeper AI power struggle over business models, geopolitics and safety—and why Europe risks becoming just a rule‑taker.

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AI Coding Assistants Are Breaking Open Source’s Social Contract

AI coding tools are flooding open source with cheap code and bad bug reports. The real crisis isn’t code scarcity, but maintainer scarcity.

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Reliance’s $110B AI Gambit Could Redraw the Global Compute Map

Reliance’s $110B AI bet aims to turn India into a global compute superpower. Here’s what it means for the AI race and for Europe’s tech ecosystem.

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OpenAI and Reliance Turn JioHotstar Into an AI Testbed for the Future of TV

OpenAI’s partnership with Reliance turns JioHotstar into a testbed for AI-first TV discovery – with big implications for streaming, India and Europe.

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OpenAI’s Indian Power Play: Why a 1GW Bet with Tata Reshapes the AI Map

OpenAI’s 1GW data center bet with Tata makes India a core AI hub and exposes Europe’s growing dependence on a U.S.–India infrastructure stack.

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OpenAI’s Pine Labs bet turns India into a live lab for AI‑native payments

OpenAI’s Pine Labs deal quietly turns India into a live testbed for AI‑native payments. Here’s why that matters for fintechs in Europe and beyond.

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Amazon’s Blue Jay Retreat: A Reality Check for AI‑First Warehouse Robotics

Amazon’s abrupt halt of its Blue Jay robot exposes the limits of AI‑first warehouse automation and opens space for more pragmatic, human‑centric systems.

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Google’s Lyria 3 Puts AI Music in Everyone’s Pocket — Now Things Get Complicated

Google’s Lyria 3 brings AI music generation into Gemini and YouTube. Here’s why this is a turning point for creators, platforms, and Europe’s music industry.

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Google Turns Gemini Into a Music Studio – And a Legal Stress Test

Google’s new Gemini music tools turn your phone into a song factory – and force Europe to confront AI training data, copyright and cultural power on YouTube.

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OpenAI Turns Indian Campuses into an AI Beachhead — and Europe Should Pay Attention

OpenAI’s push into Indian universities is a strategic bid to shape global AI skills and norms. Here’s why it matters for Europe and the talent race.

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Sarvam’s “good‑enough giants”: India’s open models are a stress test for closed AI

Indian lab Sarvam is testing whether efficient, open models backed by state compute can rival closed AI giants. What this means for Europe and open AI.

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Why India’s Tiny AI Models Could Reshape the Next Billion Devices

Indian startup Sarvam is squeezing AI into feature phones, cars and smart glasses. Here’s why its ultra‑compact, edge models matter for Europe too.

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Microsoft’s Copilot Email Leak Is a Warning Shot for ‘Enterprise AI’

Analysis of Microsoft’s Copilot bug that exposed confidential Office emails, and what it means for enterprise AI, security and EU regulation.

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