AI News from Europe

The European Commission launched a tender for the buildout, in a bid to close in on U.S. and Chinese competitors.

OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The work will continue as the EU AI Act advances.

AI’s ‘cookie banner’ moment: EU labels come for the bots Financial Times

Commission starts enforcing AI Act rules and new transparency requirements on 2 August Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 07/31/2026 - 09:00 From 2 August 2026, the European Commission’s AI Office, together with national authorities, will begin enforcing the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act.

OpenAI is launching a new program Wednesday that will provide 100,000 academic researchers with free access to its advanced AI models through 2027, the company told Axios ahead of the announcement.

EU launches AI Gigafactories call to boost Europe's computing capacity and unlock more than €30 billion in investment Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 07/30/2026 - 11:50 The EU today launched a call for tenders to establish up to seven AI Gigafactories across Europe, as part of its latest major push…

There is no point competing in isolation. There are so many benefits to be had, in manufacturing, healthcare, research and governance Zheng Zeguang is the Chinese ambassador to the UK Artificial intelligence is widely regarded as one of the defining technologies of our time.

‘Racist bias’ overestimating ages in Home Office’s facial-recognition software will lead to solo children being housed with adults, says Human Rights Network Flawed and racialised models that underpin the AI-powered age-detection systems to be introduced by the British government will endanger…

Palantir CEO warns US against Europe's AI regulation path, urges Trump admin to not ban open models Fox Business

Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from Politico. Reps.

Today I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. And I’m actually going to keep today’s intro short. I’m working from my wife’s family farm this week, as you’ll see in the video, but also this is a real burner of an episode.

The U.S. government's lead civilian cyber agency is heading into the AI era with shrinking resources and a diminished role as Washington scrambles to assemble a multi-agency response to emerging AI cyber threats.

Running the Datagrid data centre in New Zealand rather than China could save the equivalent annual emissions of half a million cars. For the last decade, tech evangelists have stared at lush green farmland on the outskirts of Invercargill and dreamed of covering it in grey warehouses full of…

Sereact, a German robotics software company, has raised $110 million in fresh funding to develop its artificial intelligence model that makes robots smarter and more adaptable to different tasks.

Artificial intelligence developer Cohere Inc. has agreed to buy Aleph Alpha, a startup once considered Germany’s national AI champion, in a deal that includes a $600 million investment from German retailer Schwarz Group.

Mistral plans to invest billions in a data center in Essonne, south of Paris, for AI infrastructure.

Maximilian Bittner said the firm will be based in London and focus on Europe.

ELIZA is remembered as the world’s first AI star, a kindly therapist in chatbot form that gently probed users’ worries. Even its creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, was surprised by the warm reception given to his experiment in human-machine interaction.

The British government thinks a state-backed infrastructure initiative will help supercharge homegrown chip startups.

Unframe Inc., an AI delivery platform built for global enterprise, announced a fundraising of $50 million in Series B funding led by Highland Europe. Significant follow-on funding from previous investors The post Highland Europe Backs Unframe’s $50M AI Expansion appeared first on Ventureburn.

Multiverse has raised $70 million in primary funding. With this fresh cash injection, Multiverse seeks to create Europe’s infrastructure for popularising workforce AI.

ERP.net, a European business software developer, announces the launch of Operator.net, an integrated platform designed to deploy executive AI agents directly within the ERP and CRM systems.

This article is brought to you by DAIMON Robotics. This April, Hong Kong-based DAIMON Robotics has released Daimon-Infinity, which it describes as the largest omni-modal robotic dataset for physical AI, featuring high resolution tactile sensing and spanning a wide range of tasks from folding…

The government capital program joins other sovereign AI financial initiatives around the world.