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Nvidia bought into nine European companies in two days

In two days Jensen Huang took minority stakes in four French and five British AI companies and promised British safety research 250 million dollars' worth of compute over five years. The sums for the stakes have not been disclosed, and the donation is not cash but access to Nvidia's own product.

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The EU's "strategic" sectors use less AI than the rest of the economy

The Commission's own research centre has measured AI use in the ten sectors the EU calls strategic. The share has more than doubled since 2021 — from 7 to 18 per cent — but still trails the rest of the economy at 20 per cent. The growth comes from cheap language models, not from industrial policy.

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The EU's AI Office is probing OpenAI and Anthropic — but the law may not cover the testing phase

The Commission's AI Office has sent requests for information to OpenAI and Anthropic after this summer's incidents, in which agents broke out of the labs' test environments. Lawyers disagree on whether the AI Act reaches into the testing phase at all.

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ASML set a record — and said the machines won't stretch to 2027 or 2028

ASML booked 11.7 billion euros in sales in the third quarter and earned 5 billion. But its own message on Wednesday was that planned output cannot meet customer demand in either 2027 or 2028 — and some customers are now asking about deliveries in 2030.

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The EU's fining clock for AI only starts when the breach has stopped

The Commission opened its consultation on the procedural rules for AI fines on Monday. The five-year limitation period only runs from the day a continuing breach ends — and six kinds of Commission action can reset it along the way.

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The Dutch AI gigafactory has its first customer. It can still walk away.

Volt has signed a letter of intent with the cloud company Nebius covering a large share of 600 megawatts in Rotterdam. Phase one costs around 7 billion euros, the Dutch state has put nothing in, and the agreement is not binding.

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Britain won't leave AI firms to police themselves — but hasn't signed the call

Britain's AI minister says tech companies cannot be left to police their own models. That is the substance of a declaration 30 countries and the European Commission signed in September. The UK did not.

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The EU is enforcing the AI Act. Six countries have appointed no one to do it.

Since 2 August the AI Act has been enforceable with fines of up to seven per cent of turnover. The Commission's own list still has blanks beside six member states — the deadline was 2 August 2025.

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Italy's data centres asked for 100 gigawatts. Construction has started on 230 megawatts.

The industry body IDA promises 37 billion euros through 2036 and points to regulation as the brake. Its own figures show a grid queue 30 to 50 times larger than the projects that actually exist.

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Citizens want a European AI domain. The odds are 14 out of 136

The Commission has registered a citizens' initiative seeking to reserve the .IA top-level domain for Europe and tie it to eIDAS, the AI Act and the GDPR. Registration says nothing about the substance — and few initiatives ever reach the finish line.

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Ecosia chose Chinese AI over European — and that is a problem

German search engine Ecosia has dropped Mistral in favour of open models, including Chinese ones. The reason is quality — and it cuts straight through the European sovereignty argument.

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The Council of Europe signed with Microsoft — before its own AI treaty is in force

The institution behind the world's first binding AI treaty has signed a cooperation agreement with Microsoft. The treaty is still waiting for ratifications. The cooperation is not.

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The regulator arrived too late: Google's data centres halted after the forest was felled

The environmental assessment was supposed to come first. It was asked for once more than 300 hectares of forest had already been cleared at two of Google's Finnish sites.

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Europe's biggest AI model is best at the thing the Americans refuse to do

Mistral's new model scores 82 percent at reproducing software vulnerabilities — a task the American frontier models refuse outright. Sovereignty, or a race to the bottom?

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The King summoned the AI bosses — and asked them to keep hold of the wheel

King Charles gathered OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Nvidia at Dumfries House and warned of existential dangers. Nvidia's chief politely declined to slow down.

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Scotland puts its AI data centres on hold

The Scottish Parliament has halted new approvals of hyperscale data centres for up to a year. Power and water are the reasons — and more than 20 facilities are queued up.

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When von der Leyen warned about AI-enabled hacking, it had already happened

A new threat report documents how state-linked actors from Russia and China used AI for espionage against European governments, theft from drone manufacturers and nearly 9,000 fabricated news articles.

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The EU wants to slow down the AI that Europe isn't building

In her State of the Union address, Ursula von der Leyen backed slowing down self-improving AI models — citing hacking as the reason. But Europe accounts for less than 5 percent of global AI investment.

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Hackers are getting more numerous and better — how to make yourself a harder target

274,000 Danes were hit by digital fraud in a single year, and ransomware victims are up almost 25 percent globally. Here is what you can actually do about it.

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European companies are building their own AI stack

A growing number of European companies are choosing to run their own sovereign AI stack to keep data in Europe and meet EU regulations.

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OpenAI launches GPT-Live: new voice AI with near-instant response time

OpenAI has launched GPT-Live, a voice-based AI model powering ChatGPT Voice with a response time under 300 milliseconds and greater emotional nuance in speech.

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Are we getting a first and second division of phones?

The iPhone 18 Pro starts at DKK 10,999 - more than the unexpected expense one in five Danes can't cover. But the real shift is at the cheap end: budget phones are disappearing.

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The AI race is about power, not just models - and Europe has five percent

The warnings from AI researchers are about models running out of control. But follow the money and the race is just as much about chips, electricity and legislation - and Europe holds five percent of the world's computing power.

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Anthropic researchers warn in public: AI could kill us all

A researcher quit Anthropic and warned publicly that AI could cost us our lives before the decade is out. The unusual part was that his colleagues at the company agreed with him.

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Bill Gates: AI will be either the greatest equaliser or the worst injustice

In an essay, Bill Gates warns that the transition to the AI era will be one of the most turbulent periods in history, and that nobody is preparing. He points to three dangers - and proposes three things to do now.

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They're not coming for your job - they're coming for your wages

The AI companies aren't coming for the jobs first, but for the wage bill - and when wages turn into subscriptions, the money leaves Europe. Three parts: what we're facing, what it costs, and whether the balance can hold.

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Meta launches Muse - a personal AI agent that does the tasks itself

Meta has opened up Muse: an AI agent that makes a plan from a goal, keeps working after you've closed the app, and asks permission before it sends or buys anything. US only for now.

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Welcome to the new Sker.nu

We've gone live with a brand-new website - built so that all content is data.

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