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AI coverage on Europa Now: models, rules and what European teams actually do with both.

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Claude-assisted breach at OpenAI: old vulnerabilities, new speed, and weak bounty signals
Researchers used Anthropic's Claude to chain two web flaws into access to OpenAI systems in under 72 hours. The incident reveals not AI-specific risks, but how machine learning has compressed the timeline from discovery to exploitation.

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Open Models Close the Gap: Europe Pursues Sovereignty While China Leads Capability
Mozilla's latest assessment of open-source AI reveals the technology has matured from experimental to production-ready, yet Europe faces a capability gap with China while betting on infrastructure and regulatory frameworks to carve out its own position.

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Huawei's 2035 Vision: Agents Will Drive 100,000-Fold Growth in AI Token Consumption
Days before Connect 2026, Huawei released forecasts projecting massive shifts in AI infrastructure and economics. The company expects global token use to explode while autonomous agents dominate traffic, and it is positioning itself to supply the hardware this transformation demands.

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Reading the Dial: How Edge AI Turns Analog Gauges Digital Without Touching Equipment
Michael Bryan Ross demonstrates a non-invasive approach to digitizing analog gauge readings using computer vision and edge AI, sidestepping the operational risks that make equipment modifications impractical in industrial settings.

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Waymo targets Singapore for Southeast Asia debut, robotaxis arriving in 2028
The autonomous vehicle operator plans to begin commercial service in Singapore in 2028, with Jaguar I-PACE vehicles arriving within months for a year of local testing and adaptation.

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Beacon acquires Haize Labs to embed AI safety across its portfolio of essential-industry software
The Toronto holding company, which owns 45 software firms serving utilities, government and manufacturing, has bought the AI testing and safeguarding startup to build an applied research group focused on making AI dependable for Main Street businesses.

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France opens criminal investigation into camera-equipped glasses used for covert filming
Paris prosecutors have initiated a criminal probe into smart glasses being used to film women without consent, marking an escalation from privacy regulation to criminal courts as the issue spreads across Europe.

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Google's $10M Spirit Airlines data buy faces challenge from airport software maker over trade secrets
Springshot, which powers operations at over 475 airports worldwide, is objecting to Google's acquisition of Spirit Airlines bankruptcy data, arguing the archive contains proprietary records generated by its own platform that could be misused to train competing AI systems.