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Future on Europa Now: AI, climate tech and the long bets that will decide what Europe builds next.
AI
North Korea blamed for $6bn Binance theft as exchange restarts withdrawals
The FBI has attributed the massive Binance hack to North Korean actors, while the crypto exchange moves to restore user access after covering the majority of losses from its own reserves.
AI
General Motors to pay $220m over Smart Driver data sales to insurers
A coalition of US state attorneys general secured a settlement from GM over the automaker's sale of driver behaviour data to insurance companies without proper consent.
AI
AI spending surge forces Big Tech to halt share buybacks
Alphabet, Meta and other major technology firms have slashed shareholder returns to fund massive artificial intelligence infrastructure investments, marking a historic shift in capital allocation.
AI
Amazon Bets on Alexa for Shopping as Its Answer to Meta's Muse
Amazon reported 400 million customers used Alexa for Shopping over the past year, as CEO Andy Jassy dismissed rival AI shopping agents as not yet ready for mainstream adoption.
AI
Amazon's AI spending spree pushes free cash flow into the red as AWS accelerates
Andy Jassy outlined plans for Amazon to potentially operate two $1 trillion revenue businesses within a decade, even as the company's massive infrastructure investments drain its cash reserves.
AI
AI's credibility crisis: Theranos whistleblower warns of easy deception and chilling NDAs
Tyler Shultz, who exposed Theranos fraud, says artificial intelligence capabilities are simple to fabricate and that restrictive agreements silence workers who might raise safety concerns.
AI
Vatican calls for international AI weapons controls ahead of Geneva negotiations
Pope Leo XIV has urged world governments to establish binding restrictions on lethal autonomous weapons systems, emphasizing that decisions affecting human life must remain under human control.
AI
Four AI Giants Adopt Unified Training Opt-Out Standard for Publishers
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic have committed to recognizing a single robots.txt signal that lets publishers block their content from generative AI training, eliminating the need for separate rules per company.