Anthropic to open a Milan office, lining the Italy push up behind a Vatican-led repositioning
Anthropic to open a Milan office, lining the Italy push up behind a Vatican-led repositioning

EMEA is already Anthropic’s fastest-growing region, with run-rate revenue up roughly 9x and large-business accounts up 10x year-on-year. The Milan office is the commercial operationalisation of an Italy strategy the company has been seeding politically…

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software just landed in its second European country, with more in the queue
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software just landed in its second European country, with more in the queue

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is no longer a single-country experiment in Europe. Lithuania became the second EU member state to approve FSD (Supervised) on Tuesday, just weeks after the Netherlands became the first. Greece and Belgium are expecte…

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is creeping into Europe

First came the Netherlands, now it’s Lithuania. And more European countries appear to be in the queue for Tesla’s driver assistance system.

Tesla launches FSD in second European country
Tesla launches FSD in second European country

Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” (Supervised) driver assistance software is now rolling out in Lithuania, making it the second European country to allow the system on public roads.

The Lithuanian Transport Safety Administration confirmed it has recognize…

French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites
French companies bid $10bn for one of the EU’s five planned AI gigafactory sites

A Scaleway-led AION consortium, with backing from Iliad, GENCI, Inria, Eviden, SiPearl, Hugging Face, and Mistral-adjacent partners, is positioning France as a single-country bidder against multi-state proposals from Spain, Germany, and the Netherlands…

Pope Leo XIV calls AI-directed warfare a “spiral of annihilation” in historic La Sapienza address
Pope Leo XIV calls AI-directed warfare a “spiral of annihilation” in historic La Sapienza address

  Pope Leo XIV used a historic visit to Europe’s largest university to denounce the growing role of artificial intelligence in warfare, warning that investments in AI-directed weaponry are driving the world toward what he called a “spiral of annihilati…

XPeng in talks to buy a Volkswagen plant in Europe as exports surge 62%
XPeng in talks to buy a Volkswagen plant in Europe as exports surge 62%

XPeng (XPEV) is in talks with Volkswagen about acquiring a factory in Europe as the Chinese EV maker’s contract production in Austria runs out of capacity. The company’s exports hit a record 6,006 vehicles in April, up 62% year-over-year.

The move c…

Spain holds the line on social media and AI rules as US tech lobbying intensifies
Spain holds the line on social media and AI rules as US tech lobbying intensifies

Digital transformation minister Óscar López says ‘the profit of four tech companies cannot come at the expense of the rights of millions’ as Madrid’s regulatory package moves through parliament. Spain’s digital transformation minister, Óscar López, sai…

Europe’s cloud dependency is a political risk, not just a technical one
Europe’s cloud dependency is a political risk, not just a technical one

Europe’s external dependency exposes more than its AI sovereignty. It also affects its data sovereignty and creates political exposure. In a previous article, we discussed how Europe is heavily dependent on external providers for AI development, partic…

TikTok asks Europe’s top court to scrap its gatekeeper status
TikTok asks Europe’s top court to scrap its gatekeeper status

The Grand Chamber of the CJEU heard ByteDance’s appeal in Case C-627/24 P on Tuesday, the first DMA gatekeeper challenge to reach the bloc’s highest court. ByteDance’s TikTok went before the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union o…