Netherlands picks Groningen data centre for its €201M AI factory supercomputer
Netherlands picks Groningen data centre for its €201M AI factory supercomputer

The Netherlands’ national AI supercomputer is finally being given an address. On Monday, SURF, the IT cooperative serving Dutch education and research, announced that the machine will be installed at Eurofiber’s data center complex on the Zernike Campu…

Heidi raises $340m and doubles its valuation to $900m
Heidi raises $340m and doubles its valuation to $900m

From the day I started Heidi, the ambition was always bigger than writing doctor’s notes. Dr Thomas Kelly said that on Tuesday, as the company he cofounded announced US$340m of new funding. The money arrives in two parts. In its announcement, Heidi sai…

Bitdefender built a VPN that hides your AI agent, not you
Bitdefender built a VPN that hides your AI agent, not you

Security can no longer stop at protecting the person behind the screen. It has to extend to the agent itself acting on their behalf. Ciprian Istrate said that on Tuesday. He runs consumer operations at Bitdefender, and the Romanian company was launchin…

Legora’s CEO says Europe should not build a frontier AI lab
Legora’s CEO says Europe should not build a frontier AI lab

I think a lot of it is marketing, to overemphasize the proposed capabilities. Max Junestrand said that in Amsterdam on Tuesday. He was asked about the summer’s run of incidents in which AI agents hacked other companies. The warnings that followed deser…

Dutch government publishes call from 21 countries and the EU for international oversight of frontier AI
Dutch government publishes call from 21 countries and the EU for international oversight of frontier AI

A joint statement released today by the Dutch government has seen leaders and ministers from 21 countries, together with the European Commission, call for tighter control over frontier AI models, including mandatory testing before their release and the…

EWOR names a San Francisco team as US applications surge 237%
EWOR names a San Francisco team as US applications surge 237%

EWOR, a founder fellowship harder to get into than Y Combinator, has named a senior leadership team in San Francisco. The appointments follow a record year of US applications, up 237% in twelve months. The team comprises Charles Ferguson, the Oscar-win…

Amber Electric raises €49m to take home battery automation to Europe
Amber Electric raises €49m to take home battery automation to Europe

“We’ve built a leading energy automation platform in Australia, and this investment gives us the backing to build on that leadership globally,” said Chris Thompson, co-founder of Amber Electric. The Melbourne company has raised €49m in a Series E round…

Bending Spoons opens a Warsaw office after 50,000 Polish applications
Bending Spoons opens a Warsaw office after 50,000 Polish applications

“We’ve received around 50,000 applications from Poland so far this year, more than twice as many as the whole of 2025,” said Andrea Maiorana, Bending Spoons’ talent data lead. The Milan company said on Monday that it has opened an office in Warsaw. It …

The EU will rate data centres on energy and water from 2027
The EU will rate data centres on energy and water from 2027

Europe’s data centers are to be graded on how much energy and water they use, under a rating scheme proposed on Monday by the European Commission. Any individual site drawing more than 500 kW is covered. What the rating measures is not only consumption…

Spain’s prime minister thinks the AI industry’s safety warnings are partly a fundraising strategy
Spain’s prime minister thinks the AI industry’s safety warnings are partly a fundraising strategy

“La autorregulación no funciona.” Self-regulation does not work, Pedro Sánchez told employers and union officials at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid on Monday, closing a government event on artificial intelligence hours before flying to New York for the U…