Cohere retains a German headquarters after acquiring Aleph Alpha, with CEO Gomez diagnosing Europe’s competitive problem as lack of will rather than lack of resources.
Google is shifting the focus of its AI platforms from assistive functions to independently operating systems, making mobile and web development a priority in the process.
Bull and Foxconn are establishing European manufacturing capacity for AI and cloud infrastructure in Czechia and France to strengthen technological sovereignty and supply chain independence.
Large technology companies are systematically contesting European GDPR fines in court, with significant implications for the implementation of AI regulation.
KPMG is rolling out Claude enterprise-wide to 276,000 employees and embedding the technology in its Digital Gateway platform to automate workflows in tax, legal, and cybersecurity.
Current frontier models achieve less than 50 percent success rate on the new ITBench-AA benchmark for evaluating agentic IT capabilities, revealing a significant gap between model capabilities and production readiness for autonomous IT tasks.
