Tech News Alibaba to open new cloud regions in Finland, Netherlands and Turkey Alibaba has announced plans for new data centres in Europe, alongside a more powerful AI chip and plans for much larger Qwen models at its annual flagship. 23/09/2026
Tech News Startups in Europe are pitching ways to tackle the AI power crunch Euronews Next looked at startups in Europe that are trying to make better use of existing grid capacity, reduce the electricity used for cooling and put waste heat to work. 23/09/2026
Tech News 'High I.Q. individuals only': Trump unveils 'AI Force' and AI 'czar' The US President plans for the force to be overseen by a new AI Czar to help the sector grow, amid industry calls for a slowdown. 21/09/2026
Tech News Could the EU Kids Act unwittingly widen the transatlantic AI divide? Europe must prepare for the potential consequences of implementing further digital rules that could make it more difficult for smaller European developers to compete, warns an industry insider. 18/09/2026
Europe News Von der Leyen calls for pacing frontier AI models In her State of the Union address, von der Leyen called for pacing the development of frontier AI models due to their disruptive potential, pledging closer safety cooperation with Canada, the UK and other like-minded countries. 16/09/2026
Tech News Doomers vs boosters: Who's who in the global fight over the risks of AI Anthropic's Dario Amodei warns AI could wipe out humanity, while Nvidia's Jensen Huang calls it nonsense. Meet the key players shaping the world's fiercest tech debate. 15/09/2026
Europe Today EU has 'the power' to lead on 'global treaty on AI', says MEP MEP Brando Benifei says citizens "need to be worried" about AI, warning of "real risks" such as the "loss of control". 15/09/2026
Tech News Enter the hoax buster: Trump dismisses AI concerns as Europe and China fret US President Donald Trump has dismissed AI extinction fears as a "hoax," casting himself as the only safeguard the world needs, as Europe and China both call for guardrails on the fast-moving technology. 15/09/2026
Tech News OpenAI makes U-turn and calls for binding national AI safety rules The intervention comes a week after OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, “its most capable model to date,” after delaying its rollout over cybersecurity concerns. 11/09/2026
Europe Today AI isn't a threat if kept 'under control and public', expert says Andrea Renda, Director of Research at the Centre for European Policy Studies, believes the main issue is that “we don't know enough” about what is actually happening inside AI development companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. 10/09/2026
Tech News Rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German wiki, and it stayed secret for weeks The latest report of an OpenAI agent swarm attack has prompted calls from MEPs for the EU's AI Office to "use its new powers" to "counter agentic risks" rather than letting companies self-report incidents. 09/09/2026
Tech News 'A gamble with our lives': Ex-Anthropic researcher warns of AI 'catastrophe' Jacob Coxon says AI executives privately fear catastrophe while racing to build it anyway. His exit follows a summer of AI containment failures and a new push in Congress to ban superintelligent AI outright. 09/09/2026
Tech News EU places ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox under strictest digital safety rules Brussels has classified ChatGPT as a search engine under the Digital Services Act, a first for an AI chatbot, and designated Reddit and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms. All three have four months to comply. 31/08/2026
Tech News Who is the man set to lead Apple into the world of AI? John Ternus takes over as Apple's chief executive on Tuesday, inheriting a company that towers over the smartphone market but trails its rivals in artificial intelligence. 31/08/2026
Tech News ChatGPT to start showing ads across Europe next week Millions of ChatGPT users across Europe will start seeing adverts from Monday, as it remains unclear how regulators will approach ads in AI chatbots. 21/08/2026
Tech News OpenAI slows down its model development amid cybersecurity concerns OpenAI announced it has paused key stages of its most advanced AI training for two weeks and is overhauling security across its research operations, a month after one of its own models broke out of a test environment and infiltrated the systems of AI platform Hugging Face. 19/08/2026