Team Techopia
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Brussels draws new age lines around social media
Brussels proposes age-based social media rules spanning AI companion services.
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Drata puts agents into vendor risk reviews
Drata has made its agentic third-party risk product available independently, using AI to collect vendor evidence, apply customer-defined criteria, and calculate risk while leaving final decisions with human reviewers.
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Nokia and C3IA deepen UK defence network push
Nokia Defense and UK engineering specialist C3IA will collaborate on tactical communications, private mobile networks, edge computing, sensing, and autonomous systems through a partnership linked to the Ministry of Defence TacSys framework.
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EXA plans new Atlantic cable for 2029
EXA Infrastructure is building a 6,552km subsea cable between New Jersey and Somerset as hyperscalers and AI infrastructure providers buy larger blocks of transatlantic fibre capacity.
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Swiss boards lag on AI cyber readiness
Swiss companies are reporting greater cyber exposure while board-level preparation remains uneven, with new research finding that 74% lack an explicit strategy for AI-enabled attacks.
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EU opens talks on pacing frontier AI
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will invite leading frontier AI laboratories to discuss pacing advanced model development while pursuing deeper cooperation with the UK and Canada on AI security.
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Nordic landlords automate heating across 73 buildings
Siemens and Swedish AI company Algeno have deployed predictive heating control across 73 buildings in Sweden and Norway, moving building AI beyond isolated trials without yet publishing portfolio-wide savings.
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Siemens links digital twins to Salesforce agents
Siemens and Salesforce are connecting engineering data from Teamcenter with Agentforce, aiming to let sales and service teams answer technically constrained questions without repeatedly sending them back to engineering.
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Estonia’s e-residents accelerate company formation
Estonia’s e-residents have created more than 4,200 companies so far in 2026, while programme data shows faster business formation and growing demand for domestic professional services.
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Two groups dominate Europe’s hotel platforms
Booking Holdings and Expedia Group now account for 85.4% of European online travel-agency hotel bookings in an industry study, intensifying scrutiny of platform dependence even as direct bookings remain larger overall.











