Mistral’s chief executive, Arthur Mensch, has warned that Europe will get “leftovers” if it stops building frontier AI models. Apps built on American or Chinese models would also give Europe a “big trade balance problem”, he said on 20 October. Mensch …
The centrist parties behind Ursula von der Leyen split in the European Parliament on Thursday. The question was whether AI companies should answer for harm their models cause. Socialist and Green MEPs called for a new AI liability act. The centre-right…
PHP has warned of a third flaw that could let an attacker run code on a web server, two days after its emergency fixes for the PHP2Shell bugs. This time it will not rush out a fix. In a short advisory on 23 October, PHP said the new bug, CVE-2026-11556…
Spain’s main opposition party has posted a campaign video built with AI deepfakes. In it, likenesses of people linked to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists appear to confess to wrongdoing. The conservative People’s party (PP) shared it on 21 Oct…
Google cleared an estimated 250,000 trees at its planned data centre site in Muhos, northern Finland, before finishing the required environmental assessment. Miranda Bryant reported this for the Guardian from the site. The clearing covers 330 hectares,…
Ukraine’s Starlink and Starshield links now work for drones flying faster than 400 km/h, Defence Minister Yevhenii Khmara said on Saturday. A speed cap had cut the link for fast-moving drones since 14 October. Khmara told reporters that the defence min…
Wayve, Stellantis and Nvidia announced a collaboration with the French government to deploy self-driving vehicles in France and across the EU. Stellantis supplies L4-ready platforms, Wayve its AI Driver and Nvidia its Hyperion system. Uber is also invo…
An engineer at Nscale’s Stavanger data centre has sued the AI cloud firm and subcontractor CloudBrothers, Bloomberg reported. He claims Nscale directed his work like an employer and that he was fired after raising pay concerns. The case comes as Nscale…
Anthropic is planning to back a new European AI consultancy with Hg, the London-based private equity firm, the Financial Times reported. The independent company will place AI engineers and consultants inside businesses to help them build and deploy the…
Telefónica and IQM Quantum Computers will install an IQM Spark at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid before the end of 2026. It will be the first quantum computer in the Community of Madrid, the two companies said when they announced the deal on Fri…