Policy
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Planning reform gives 5G more room
England’s revised planning framework gives stronger policy support to 5G and gigabit infrastructure while VodafoneThree faces thousands of physical upgrades across its merged mobile network.
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Latvia breach becomes a governance crisis
A cyberattack on Latvia’s road authority exposed records concerning 1.2 million people and 200,000 organisations, turning an IT failure into a test of public-sector accountability.
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Digital product passports face the verification test
SealTrust has published an item-level digital product passport demonstration as EU rules move from product-data principles towards registries, identifiers, interoperability, and practical verification.
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France turns to sovereign AI after tax hack
France plans to use sovereign AI suppliers to probe government cyber weaknesses after compromised credentials enabled attackers to extract tax information concerning 678,000 individuals and businesses.
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London data centre tests net-zero planning
A proposed £14.7bn east London data centre campus has brought the electricity and carbon cost of Britain’s expanding AI infrastructure into a local planning decision.
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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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UK age checks expose an enforcement gap
Britain’s online age checks are reducing traffic to compliant adult sites, but Ofcom’s own evidence shows some users moving towards services that have not introduced equivalent controls.
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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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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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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.
