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Future
Future on Europa Now: AI, climate tech and the long bets that will decide what Europe builds next.
Climate Tech
Fraunhofer and Korean Research Partners Chart Joint Battery Development Path
Germany's Fraunhofer Battery Alliance has formalized research ties with South Korean institutions, signing agreements to advance battery materials, manufacturing and recycling technologies.
AI
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.
AI
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.
AI
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.
AI
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.
AI
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.
AI
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.
AI
A Decade of Space-Powered Learning: ESERO Austria Marks Ten Years of STEM Inspiration
Since its founding in 2016, the European Space Agency's education office in Austria has trained thousands of teachers and engaged over 125,000 people through space-themed programs that make science tangible for young learners.