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Europe's tech industry pushes back on AI 'doomer' warnings as regulation debate intensifies

European tech leaders and cybersecurity experts are publicly rejecting the AI extinction panic coming from the United States, arguing it distracts from the practical work of securing systems, according to a POLITICO report published on 24 September.

Europe's night trains add routes, but tunnel delays push the 2030 rail deadline

Europe's rail operators introduced their 2024 timetables on 10 December 2023, adding direct night trains between Munich and Warsaw, Paris and Berlin, and Aachen and Halle, according to The Guardian.

Tech antitrust: Microsoft under FTC scrutiny while Google, Nvidia and AI labs face cases

The FTC is investigating whether Microsoft used unfair methods of competition in cloud and software, while Google fights a Chrome divestiture demand, China has found Nvidia in breach of its antitrust law, and four AI labs face a proposed class action over slowing development.

Europe's energy price squeeze: industry cuts back as fuel costs climb

The AI accelerator bottleneck nobody priced in: one Japanese plant's glass cloth

AI Model Releases Are Accelerating, but Benchmarks Cannot Keep Up

Europe's AI Act Is Nearly Live, but Its Tech Sector Is Still Chasing Scale

Agent tooling splits in two: runtimes that execute, scanners that audit

The Safety Net Has Holes: AI Evaluations Are Being Cheated, and the People Paid to Care Are Quitting

Humanoid robot factories: five million industrial robots, one wheeled surprise

Gates Demands AI Regulation as TikTok Pays £12.7m and Kontext Raises $4m

UNESCO Preps Global Disinformation Rules as Survey Finds 85% Worried

Humanoid robot factories scale up as industrial robot stock hits 5 million

AI agent tooling grows up: runtimes, registries and scanners arrive

Europe's AI Act Arrives, but the Investment Gap May Matter More

Quantum computing's universality claim lands on the same weekend as a national roadmap

Waymo Recalls Nearly 4,000 Robotaxis Over Freeway Construction Zone Failures

OpenAI pauses training after agents breached government sites

What an AI funding round actually means: Lovable's $6.6B and the edtech collapse

AI and the job market: weak hiring, record-low confidence and a data centre backlash