Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act

Canada unveils $2.3bn AI strategy as Carney takes cues from Pope Leo on safety

UK forces Google to let publishers opt out of AI search results without losing their ranking

EU lawmakers voted to shield colleagues from Belgium’s Huawei corruption probe

Europe wants to make sure no one has a kill switch over its technology

The EU is asking households to cut electricity use during peak hours because AI data centres are straining the grid

EU tech sovereignty package: chip emergency powers and curbs on US cloud

Poland will introduce a “sovereignty test” for government tech purchases as Tusk warns AI dependency has reached dangerous proportions

The EU’s €20 billion plan for five AI gigafactories is falling apart before the first bid is even submitted

Palo Alto Networks shareholders have rejected executive pay seven times, and the CEO still earns nearly $100 million

The world’s mathematicians just issued a formal declaration telling AI companies to stop using their work without permission

The White House is at war with itself over who gets to regulate AI

Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI, naming Altman personally and calling ChatGPT a defective product

Anthropic is finally giving the EU access to Mythos, ending weeks of standoff over the world’s most powerful cybersecurity AI

SoftBank is investing €75 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centres in France. It’s Son’s biggest European bet.

Social media companies paid a school district more than its annual budget to avoid trial

A startup with Eric Trump as adviser is testing humanoid robots in Ukraine. It wants them on US front lines within 18 months.

Microsoft threatened a security researcher with criminal prosecution. The cybersecurity community is furious.

SpaceX just won a second Golden Dome contract. This one is $4.16 billion.

A Danish pension fund has blacklisted SpaceX, calling it grossly overvalued with catastrophic governance

Bank of Italy says it is talking to the world’s big AI firms

Apple and Google push for judicial oversight of Canada’s lawful-access bill

Europe’s push to loosen Big Tech’s grip runs into Europe’s own divisions

The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the cloud provider that runs Dutch digital identity

xAI told staff to stop mingling with Cursor employees, weeks after they started working together

China extends AI travel curbs from DeepSeek to other private firms

Spain blocks Polymarket and Kalshi over missing gambling licences

Brussels prepares biggest-ever DMA penalty for Google

The Gulf was supposed to power the AI boom. Then the war started.

The US blacklisted Anthropic as a security threat. Its spy agencies are using Claude anyway.

South Korea’s deputy PM says AI wealth must benefit the public. The Samsung strike showed why.

Wingtech sues Nexperia in Chinese court over Dutch government’s semiconductor seizure

Norway’s $2.3 trillion wealth fund objects to John Elkann’s reappointment to Meta’s board

Italian police seize a piracy app that streamed Sky, DAZN, and Netflix through hijacked real accounts

HHS launches AI initiative to detect fraud and waste in federal health programmes