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Future on Europa Now: AI, climate tech and the long bets that will decide what Europe builds next.

AI
Meta's $825B commitment to AI infrastructure signals massive acceleration in data centre buildout
The social media giant has locked in nearly $825 billion in future leases and computing contracts, mostly for the artificial intelligence infrastructure underpinning its expansion strategy.

AI
Boomi's Lucas: AI Will Create 10 Times More Work Before It Destroys Jobs
The integration platform's CEO tells Europa Now why the SaaS apocalypse narrative misses the mark, and why his company's approach to data and AI governance matters for European enterprises.

AI
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.

AI
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.

AI
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.

AI
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.

AI
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.

Climate Tech
Go Eve lands £750K to refine DockChain multi-bay EV charging system
The University College Dublin and Imperial College London spin-out is using fresh funding to make its sequential charging technology more reliable for fleet operators managing electric vehicle infrastructure.