Policy
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AI search reopens France’s publisher settlement
French publishers have asked the competition authority to intervene over Google’s AI search summaries, reopening disputes over traffic, content value, remuneration, and platform bargaining power.
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AI and active cyber powers enter Germany’s intelligence law
Germany is rewriting intelligence law to govern AI analysis, longer data retention, and narrowly defined cyber intervention as state security work becomes more dependent on digital systems.
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Northern Ireland sets rules for public AI
Northern Ireland has opened consultation on its first AI strategy, putting governance, public-service adoption, data, skills, and human oversight into one framework.
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ACRO reprimand exposes a patching governance failure
The ICO has reprimanded ACRO after security weaknesses left highly sensitive criminal-record and identity information potentially exposed during a prolonged compromise.
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Europe trains for quantum’s error-correction bottleneck
A €4.66 million European doctoral network is bringing universities and quantum companies together around the engineering problem of fault-tolerant computing.
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Marlink buys GRC as sovereign networks consolidate
Marlink is acquiring UK communications specialist GRC as governments and critical infrastructure operators put greater weight on resilient, managed connectivity.
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Mistral turns sovereignty into a compute contract
Mistral is adding regional inference, service guarantees, open-model choice, and long-term compute commitments to its European sovereign AI proposition.
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FCA tests scale-up supervision with fintech cohort
FCA’s first solo-regulated cohort pairs growth support with closer supervision.
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Water cyber guidance gets an operational blueprint
NCSC maps secure connectivity onto water utilities’ operational technology estates.
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UKRI funds the harder explainable AI problem
UKRI is funding speculative research into more explainable AI systems.
