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

Meta reports $825B in future lease and contract commitments

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.

Boomi CEO Steve Lucas says AI now reviews half its accounts payable

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.

A Chat With Alexander Kihm, Founder And CEO Of POMA AI

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.

Meta to pay $25B in New Mexico case over misleading Facebook users

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 lab Flapping Airplanes is now worth $6B, four times its January value

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.

Discover the Qualcomm Academy new AI Associate Certification: Model to App at Maker Faire Rome!

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.

A Chat With Jason Day, Head Of EMEA At Luma: How Agentic AI Is Rewriting The Rules Of Creative Production

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.

Go Eve secures £750K to advance its DockChain EV charging technology

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.