European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called for closer US-EU cooperation on AI at the G7 Summit in France.

Across Central and Eastern Europe, the conversation around cybersecurity and enterprise AI is changing fast. It is no longer enough to buy another isolated tool, run another disconnected security project, or treat AI as a standalone experiment.

The European Commission stated it would engage with consumers and publishers by the end of this year to explore ways to improve industry standards for video games.

The UK government unveiled plans to ban children under 16 years of age from social media.

Italian antitrust body has opened an investigation into Apple over alleged violations of the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

The French government announced a sovereign AI push, declaring that its intelligence agency would stop working with US company Palantir.

Anthropic was directed by the US administration to immediately suspend all access to its two most advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5.

French startup Mistral AI is in early talks to raise around €3 billion in a new funding round.

The GSMA has warned that European regulations must be aligned to enable further infrastructure investments.

T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom’s IT service provider, is setting up Volkswagen’s new private cloud and will operate it globally for the automotive group.

Telecom Italia received a €1 billion payment from the Italian state, a refund for a charge from the late 90s.

SpaceX raised a total of $75 billion in an IPO, pricing 555.6 million shares at $135 each.

Advanced robotics and, in particular, the very dynamic growth of humanoid systems are heralding the next stage of automation.

The European Commission has ordered Meta to restore free access to WhatsApp for rival general-purpose AI assistants.

OpenAI has confidentially filed paperwork for an IPO, becoming the latest AI company to move towards a listing.

The European Commission published the final Code of Practice on marking and labelling of AI-generated content.

Orange made a second decisive acquisition move in two days after completing a buyout of its partner in the Spanish joint venture MasOrange.

Video piracy in Croatia is no longer a marginal issue or a matter of users occasionally watching an illegal stream. It has evolved into an increasingly organised parallel business that is putting real pressure on the legitimate television market.

Amazon announced it would invest more than €10 billion in upgrading its facilities in Europe with next-generation robotics.