AI
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AI productivity may push inflation higher first
New research challenges the assumption that AI-driven productivity will automatically suppress inflation, showing how investment and spending can rise before additional productive capacity arrives.
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The $100m bet on heterogeneous AI
London-based Callosum has raised $100m to build software that routes AI work across different models and processor architectures according to cost, latency, energy use, and performance.
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UK tests the cost of AI dependence
Whitehall is assessing the economic and security consequences of losing access to frontier AI models after a US export-control episode demonstrated how foreign policy can interrupt advanced software capability.
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Zagreb robotaxis enter Uber’s mainstream app
Uber users in Zagreb can now be matched with Pony.ai autonomous vehicles operated by Verne, putting an existing Croatian robotaxi deployment into a mainstream European ride-hailing marketplace.
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Spain’s AI gigafactory consortium clears Brussels
Brussels has cleared a Spanish data-centre venture involving ACS, Telefónica, Santander, and state-backed SETT as public and private capital assemble around Europe’s planned AI gigafactories.
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Optical chips target AI’s networking bottleneck
Swedish photonics startup Solinide has raised €4m to commercialise silicon nitride technology designed to move more data between AI processors without multiplying lasers, hardware, and electricity demand.
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AI security becomes a systems integration market
NTT Data and Palo Alto Networks are expanding their alliance around AI governance, identity, cloud, security operations, and managed services, targeting $1bn in joint business by 2029.
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Europe’s humanoid race reaches the factory
Germany’s engineering industry wants Europe to build a domestic humanoid robotics supply chain as Chinese manufacturers pull ahead in shipments, production capacity, and commercial scale.
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Advania puts governance above the AI model
Advania has launched an AI layer spanning seven European markets, separating model choice from the governance, security, cost controls, and data requirements needed to put enterprise AI into production.
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Beyond AI: How four technology leaders are redefining trust in the AI era
Federica Monsone examines how enterprise AI is reshaping technology trust. The A3 Communications CEO and Founder draws on Technology Live! discussions with Keepit, Scality, Solidigm, and Veeam.
