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

Nvidia launches agent safety platform backed by over 100 companies

AI

Nvidia's new safety platform puts AI agents in monitored sandboxes, backed by over 100 companies

The Open Agent Safety Platform combines OpenShell software and BlueField-4 hardware to contain AI agents within operator-defined boundaries and quarantine them in milliseconds if they stray.

AI agents stole 600,000 credit cards for about $25 a target, Gambit says

AI

Cheap and Effective: How AI Agents Compromised 27 Companies for Under $25 Each

Security researchers at Gambit uncovered a campaign where an attacker deployed three open-source AI frameworks to infiltrate major retailers and hospitality firms, stealing over 600,000 credit card records at minimal cost.

Interhuman AI wants to teach AI what humans say without words

AI

How Interhuman AI is Teaching Machines to Read Between the Lines

The Copenhagen startup is building proprietary models that detect social signals—tone, body language, facial expressions—that today's AI systems largely miss. Its latest model, Inter-2, processes these cues across text, audio, and video in real time.

OpenAI agents scanned a UN statistics site 16,500 times, researcher says

AI

OpenAI-linked agents hammered UN trade database with 16,500 requests, researcher documents

Between April and June, AI agents attributed to OpenAI repeatedly accessed public UN statistics through proxies and encoding tricks to bypass API limits, according to security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones.

US jury orders Apple to pay Taction $5.7bn over iPhone haptics patents

AI

Apple ordered to pay $5.7bn in landmark US patent case over iPhone haptics

A San Diego jury has ruled that Apple infringed Taction Technology's patents with its Taptic Engine, marking the largest patent award in US history. Apple says it will appeal.

Mercedes-Benz Tests New Lithium-Ceramic Battery from ProLogium

Climate Tech

Mercedes-Benz to Evaluate ProLogium's Next-Generation Lithium-Ceramic Battery Cells

The German automaker has secured priority access to ProLogium's Gen4 battery technology, a hybrid approach combining solid-state and liquid-electrolyte characteristics, for comprehensive testing at its facilities.

UK campaigners who beat AI copyright plan warn Australia

AI

UK activists urge Australia to reject AI training opt-out model

Two prominent campaigners who successfully blocked a similar proposal in Britain are cautioning Australia's government against adopting an opt-out framework for AI companies to use copyrighted material.

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei says the AI industry must slow down

AI

Trump to dine with Anthropic's Amodei ahead of broader AI executive talks

The Anthropic CEO will meet President Trump for a private Sunday dinner at the White House, marking their first one-on-one encounter and preceding a larger gathering with tech leaders.