Leaked memo reveals alarming German warnings over Trump
Trump’s second term will bring a โmaximum concentration of power with the president,โ Germany’s ambassador to the U.S. warns in confidential document obtained by Reuters.
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Starmer banks on AI as UKโs savior as growth agenda falters
Rishi Sunak positioned the U.K. as a world-leader on AI safety. Keir Starmer is adopting a more boosterish stance.
Zuckerberg calls on US to defend tech companies against European โcensorshipโ
He complained on the world’s biggest podcast that in the last 10 years “people started pushing for ideologically based censorship.”
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Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies
Comparing the bloc’s antitrust penalties to tariffs, the Meta boss argued that Brussels is “screwing with” American industry.
Europeโs economic apocalypse
Stagnation, flagging competitiveness, Donald Trump โ the continent is facing “an existential challenge.”
Europe jumps into โincredibly costlyโ AI supercomputing race
The EU will fund AI-optimized supercomputers across the bloc to help startups compete with U.S. rivals.
Nordic justice ministers still not happy after TikTok, Meta gang violence meeting
As the region grapples with gang violence, tech companies must do their bit to prevent it.
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Who were the biggest dunces? Final grades for von der Leyenโs first Commission
Whoโs at the top of the class and who flunked? Here are POLITICO’s grades for each 2019-2024 European commissioner.
France doubles down on age minimum of 15 for social media use
Paris renews push for EU-wide uptake of its “digital majority” at 15.
Why Europe needs a Connectivity Union
With competitiveness lagging, the EU must take urgent, decisive action to reignite the regionโs economy
5 things to know about EU tech security chief Henna Virkkunenโs hearing
Elon Musk and Europe’s tech gaps show the Finnish nominee has a major task at hand.
What lawmakers should ask the EUโs new tech boss
Queries for Henna Virkkunen: What’s tech sovereignty? How can Europe win the AI race? And how will you enforce EU tech rules?
Trumpโs in. Hereโs what it means for Europe.
From energy and trade to finance and defense, hereโs how Donald Trumpโs second presidency will impact EU policy.
EU shrugs off Trumpโs threats to scrap green handouts
Trump may cut Europe out of Americaโs subsidy splurge, but EU industries aren’t seeing many benefits yet anyway.
Lack of reliable data hampers water-resilient Europe, says water tech industry [Advocacy Lab Content]
A group of water tech companies, including Siemens, Bentley, Cisco, and Schneider Electric, says a lack of reliable data and lack of measurement at the EU level is hampering Europe from becoming fully water resilient.
โChaos and confusionโ: Microsoft braces for foreign election interference in days ahead
Hereโs what the disinformation hunters at Microsoft will be watching from the โsituation roomโ on Election Day and beyond.
Peak America: No matter who wins Tuesday, Europe has already lost
U.S. interest in the continent has been in decline since the end of the Cold War.
New rules to build corporate giants wonโt reverse EU decline, officials say
Europe’s competition enforcers are alarmed by talk of changing merger rules to allow big firms in key industries.
EU events on curbing big tech โdistortedโ by attenders with industry links
Campaigners say 21% of people at workshops did not disclose on their applications relationships with firms being discussed More than one in five attenders at EU events on regulating big tech companies did not disclose links to the industry when applyin…
EU to spend โฌ900M on expanding critical technologies
Brussels has lined up cash to prevent European tech companies from falling into foreign hands.
Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children
Prime minister wants young people to be shielded from โpower of the algorithmโNorway is to enforce a strict minimum age limit on social media of 15 as the government ramped up its campaign against tech companies it says are โpitted against small childr…
EU props up โฌ90B investors club to plug tech funding gap
The “trusted” network includes 71 members.
Meet Elon Muskโs man in Washington
The SpaceX billionaire is forging new ties with a federal telecom official who could help funnel billions of dollars to his company if Trump is elected.
Wars are won with code, says German military AI maker
Helsing is riding the wave as Europe seeks defense tech leadership.
Europeโs privacy patrol is spoiling Big Techโs AI party
New leadership in Dublin has put the EUโs privacy regulators on a collision course with Big Tech.