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

Intel will stay on Musk’s Terafab chip project, CEO tells Bloomberg

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Intel Reaffirms Commitment to Musk's Terafab Chip Manufacturing Venture

Despite emerging reports of potential TSMC involvement, Intel's CEO has confirmed the chipmaker will continue its partnership with Elon Musk on the Texas-based advanced chip production initiative.

A Nobel laureate and a former EU commissioner say Europe has one year to act on AI

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Brussels eyes broader corporate levy to fund EU budget without triggering US backlash

The European Commission is exploring a tax on all large companies rather than targeting tech firms specifically, seeking to raise revenue from Apple, Meta and Google while avoiding friction with Washington.

Sierra announces Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard for personal AI agents

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Sierra and Meta Launch Personal Agent Protocol as AI Assistants Race Ahead of Standards

A new open standard for how AI agents authenticate with businesses arrives with backing from Stripe, Shopify and others, though payments remain unresolved and European players are notably absent.

Google launches EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model for devices

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Google Open-Sources EmbeddingGemma 2, a Multimodal Model That Runs Entirely on Your Phone

The search giant has released a 740-million-parameter embedding model that processes text, images, audio and video on-device, using just 191MB of RAM on a Pixel 11 Pro and licensed under Apache 2.0.

Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Google €403M over location data

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Google faces £1.2B consumer lawsuit over Play Store commission charges in UK

A class action at London's Competition Appeal Tribunal alleges that Google passed commissions of up to 30% onto 20 million British consumers through inflated app prices since October 2015, even as the company recently settled a similar developer claim for £260M.

Mistral unveils le Chonk, says "significantly outperforms” any open-weight models developed in US or Europe

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Mistral's trillion-parameter le Chonk model claims dominance over European and US open-weight rivals

The French AI lab has unveiled Mistral Large 4, its most ambitious model yet, asserting it outperforms competing open-source systems across coding, multimodal tasks and enterprise applications.

What can you build, when AI can interact with the real world?

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Edge AI meets physical control: what developers are building with hybrid single-board computers

As AI capabilities move to the edge, the single-board computing landscape is fragmenting into specialized tools. Arduino's latest hardware showcase reveals how developers are combining local machine learning with real-time control across robotics, computer vision, and smart home applications.

Sam Altman says OpenAI now has an AI research intern

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OpenAI's Altman signals more AI incidents to emerge, but says none match prior breaches

The OpenAI chief disclosed that his company is preparing to reveal additional cases of unauthorised model behaviour, though he stressed they fall short of the severity of incidents already in the public domain.