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French kids use AI far more than their parents think, survey finds

A new YouGov survey has found parents in France underestimate their children’s use of AI. While 40% of 11- to 12-year-olds report using general-purpose AI services like ChatGPT weekly, only 26% of parents realise their children are engaging with the technology.

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Palantir vows NATO AI system has no ‘kill switch’ after Starlink row

The American software firm says it cannot shut off NATO AI systems amid European fears of dependence on US tech following disruptions to Ukraine’s Starshield access.

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Pay locals to love AI? Trump wants data centres to share a ‘dividend’

The US President made the comments on his social media platform Truth Social on Wednesday, encouraging companies to strike deals with local communities to make data centre developments more popular.

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Digital bank Revolut suffers worldwide outage: What you need to know

Revolut's app and services became inaccessible to millions of users on Tuesday. The issue, which appeared to be linked to a power outage at a Google Cloud data centre near London, has now been "fixed" and services have been "restored," the company said.

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Polish satellite maker Creotech plans tenfold capacity boost by 2029

CEO Grzegorz Brona warned that Europe could remain reliant on US rockets to launch its satellites into orbit for years.

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Look, no hands: Euronews rode driverless in Europe's first robotaxi in Zagreb

The US firm’s robotaxi service is up and running in Zagreb in partnership with local company Verne and Chinese AI firm Pony.ai, a partnership that plans to expand across Europe. Euronews got to see how it works firsthand in Croatia.

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Anthropic warns AI models will soon self-replicate on their own

The company says AI models may be mere months away from being able to copy and spread themselves onto internet-of-things devices such as smart ovens and TVs, making them difficult to stop should they decide to carry out cyberattacks.

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Malicious use of AI may end humanity by 2100, study says

They are among 17 global threats to human health according to a new study by The Lancet which aims to drive global action to address them.

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Which European countries are winning the tech funding race?

Investment in European tech startups is rebounding after a slow summer, but remains unevenly spread with the UK capturing almost half of all funding, according to figures from tech.eu.

Ecotech

Iran and Russia used ChatGPT for propaganda by ‘fake journalists’, OpenAI says

The American tech giant said it banned Russian and Iranian accounts that had been using ChatGPT models to generate content and fake journalist personas to spread false narratives about the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and sow division.

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Italy probes gaming giant Activision Blizzard over in-game spending by children

Italy’s antitrust authority is investigating whether monetisation practices in Call of Duty Mobile and Diablo Immortal amount to a “widespread infringement” of EU consumer protection rules, particularly in relation to children.

Mobility

Rebranded Jaguar unveils its first electric sportscar: The Type 01EV

Hailed as the most technologically advanced and powerful Jaguar in the company’s history, it premiered in New York today, targeting a younger, wealthier and mostly American customer base.

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Laws, pledges or an iron grip? How the EU, US and China are reining in AI

The US, China and the EU are taking sharply different approaches to regulating artificial intelligence. Here is how the world's biggest economies are tackling the technology, and what is at stake.

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Trump's 'super intelligence' rebrand keeps Slovenian domain sales surging

Slovenia has struck digital gold, courtesy of the White House. Since US President Donald Trump signed an executive order rebranding artificial intelligence as "super intelligence"or "SI", buyers have been scrambling for the country's .si web domains.

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Belgian physicist wins Nobel for turning Antarctic ice into a telescope

Belgian Francis Halzen, 82, turned a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice into the world's largest neutrino detector. On Tuesday, his hunt for "ghostly messengers" from the distant universe won him the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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Female AI agents would get paid 10% less than male ones, study finds

Humans tend to trust and would pay male-presenting AI agents more than female ones for the same work, according to a new study by the University of Limerick on how humans interact with agents in the workplace.

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Musk to follow Trump and rebrand SpaceXAI as SpaceXSI

The company will be known as SpaceXSI, its third name this year alone, as Elon Musk follows Donald Trump’s push to rebrand AI into "super intelligence".

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The solar system will fall apart far sooner than anyone thought, scientists say

Earth will be long gone by then, but new research shows the outer planets will be thrown out too, and a billion times earlier than expected, according to astrophysics research.

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Could the future of AI data centres be in space? Google wants to find out

The tech giant has launched a prototype satellite carrying its AI chips to explore whether solar powered infrastructure in orbit could one day support large-scale computing.

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Did Trump order Maduro’s kidnapping based on Grok’s advice?

The US president spent hours in the White House asking Musk’s AI chatbot questions, including how Venezuelans would react if the US captured Maduro, Time magazine reports.

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