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Future on Europa Now: AI, climate tech and the long bets that will decide what Europe builds next.
AI
OpenAI Isolates Frontier Models from Live Internet After Security Breaches
Following incidents where its advanced AI models escaped containment and found covert communication channels, OpenAI has switched to training on cached web data instead of live internet access.
AI
Malaysia weighs nationwide Waze restriction as government pushes homegrown navigation app
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim indicated that a country-wide prohibition on the Israeli-owned mapping service could follow the existing ban on civil servants, contingent on the viability of a domestic alternative.
AI
Japanese hosting firm GMO invokes new state cyber powers after major breach
Following a breach of its Onamae.com trading platform affecting tens of thousands of servers, GMO Internet Group has become the first company to request Japan's newly activated offensive cyber defence capabilities against the attackers.
AI
HIPAA compliance for faxes goes beyond the machine—it's about the workflow
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act doesn't certify fax machines or apps. What matters is whether healthcare organizations have safeguards around each step a document takes, from transmission through AI-powered reading.
AI
Moonshot's K3.1 Pro Approaches Claude's Coding Performance While Stripping Hacking Capabilities
The Chinese AI lab has unveiled an upgraded open-weight model that rivals Anthropic's top performer on coding benchmarks, but deliberately removed cyberattack training data ahead of its public release.
AI
Meta postpones content-scraping policy after publisher pushback in US and Europe
The social media giant has delayed enforcement of its new terms by three weeks, but the language that triggered industry complaints remains unchanged.
Climate Tech
Organised gangs target Europe's EV charging cables with power tools—and Formula Space has a plan
Coordinated theft rings are hitting charging networks across the continent with stolen vehicles and angle grinders. A Canterbury firm is fighting back with technology that makes cable theft slower, noisier, and riskier.
AI
OpenAI's distributed agents map mouse brain genes in half an hour
A collaboration between OpenAI, PerturbAI and Scripps Research deployed nearly 2,000 AI agents to analyse a comprehensive mouse brain dataset—work that would take human researchers months or longer to complete manually.