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AI coverage on Europa Now: models, rules and what European teams actually do with both.

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POMA AI's Alexander Kihm on Why Document Context Matters More Than Model Size
The Berlin founder explains how preserving document structure and visual context during data ingestion—not upgrading to larger AI models—is the real bottleneck holding back enterprise AI retrieval.

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New Mexico wins $25B penalty against Meta over privacy deception and hate speech failures
A state court has imposed one of America's largest civil penalties after finding Meta systematically misled Facebook users on privacy protections and content moderation rules.

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Flapping Airplanes hits $6B valuation on quest for efficient AI training
The San Francisco research lab has quadrupled its worth since January, raising $1B to develop methods that reduce the data and computing demands of artificial intelligence systems.

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Qualcomm and Arduino Launch Edge AI Certification at Maker Faire Rome
A new hands-on program teaches developers to build and deploy machine learning models on edge devices, with three real-world projects spanning voice, vision, and sensor applications.

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Luma's Jason Day on Agentic AI: Why Video Is the Shortcut to AGI
The head of Luma's EMEA operations discusses how the company's creative intelligence platform preserves cultural context across models, and why video generation offers a more direct path to artificial general intelligence than language-based approaches.

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Australia prepares Federal Court action against Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube over teen ban
Communications Minister Anika Wells has revealed that Australia's eSafety Commissioner is building a legal case against five major platforms over the country's under-16 social media prohibition, while Wells simultaneously pursues a global coalition to pressure Big Tech on child safety.

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FTC Approves Publicis' $2.2bn LiveRamp Acquisition With Strict Safeguards
The US regulator has cleared the advertising giant's purchase of the data connectivity firm on condition that competitors retain equal access for five years, even as Apple moves to restrict LiveRamp's tracking capabilities in Safari.

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Meta's Prometheus supercluster in Ohio grows toward 1 million GPUs, cuts failures by 99%
Meta has disclosed technical details of its Prometheus facility in New Albany, Ohio, which already houses hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs and is scaling toward approximately 1 million. The company has also shared rare reliability metrics showing dramatic improvements in system stability.