Dutch watchdogs urge Europe’s banks to pool buying power against US tech giants
Dutch watchdogs urge Europe’s banks to pool buying power against US tech giants

A single European bank haggling with Amazon or Microsoft has almost no leverage. A few hundred of them haggling together might. That, stripped to its essence, is the recommendation Dutch regulators handed their government on Friday, in a report warning…

SAP averts an EU antitrust fine by opening up its support market
SAP averts an EU antitrust fine by opening up its support market

SAP has talked its way out of an EU antitrust fine. The European Commission said it would accept a set of commitments from the German software group, closing an investigation into how SAP handles maintenance and support for its on-premise enterprise so…

EU Parliament revives a ‘zombie’ child-abuse scanning bill it rejected in March
EU Parliament revives a ‘zombie’ child-abuse scanning bill it rejected in March

The European Parliament has voted to advance a bill letting tech companies legally scan for child sexual abuse material. On Thursday in Strasbourg, lawmakers sent the proposal to EU member states for approval, Politico reports. The twist is that Parlia…

A four-year-old has seen more of the world than ChatGPT. Yann LeCun is betting $1bn on that
A four-year-old has seen more of the world than ChatGPT. Yann LeCun is betting $1bn on that

Yann LeCun is not a natural contrarian, but he is playing one right now. The man often called a godfather of AI built the convolutional neural network in the late 1980s. That design still powers phone cameras, medical scans, and driver-assistance syste…

AMD’s CTO: agentic AI doesn’t just need GPUs, it needs a lot more CPUs
AMD’s CTO: agentic AI doesn’t just need GPUs, it needs a lot more CPUs

On stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris, the interviewer put it bluntly to Mark Papermaster. He should have bought AMD shares six months ago, he joked, back when they traded near $200. They now sit above $500. AMD is no longer the plucky underdog chasing…

This EU-first robocar tests at 120 km/h, and uses no AI to drive
This EU-first robocar tests at 120 km/h, and uses no AI to drive

Aidoptation can now test a fully self-driving car at highway speed on Belgian public roads. It is the first Level 4 permit of its kind in the European Union. The company announced the approval, which covers 100 km of the E313 and E314 motorways in Limb…

The John Deere repair win isn’t about tractors. It’s about software lock-in
The John Deere repair win isn’t about tractors. It’s about software lock-in

John Deere owners can finally fix their own machines. The US Federal Trade Commission and five states have reached a settlement with the tractor giant that forces it to share the software and tools needed for repairs, the Associated Press reported. It …

Oracle’s Mark Hura: your AI advantage is your data, not the model
Oracle’s Mark Hura: your AI advantage is your data, not the model

The pitch for enterprise AI usually starts with the model. Mark Hura, Oracle‘s president of global field operations, wants to flip that. He spoke on stage at the RAISE Summit in Paris. The companies winning with AI, he argued, are not shopping for an A…

Lithuania’s Oxylabs raises $130M from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6bn valuation
Lithuania’s Oxylabs raises $130M from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6bn valuation

Oxylabs has raised $130M from private equity firm Warburg Pincus. It is the company’s first outside investment since it launched in 2015. The deal values the Vilnius-based data infrastructure firm at around $3.6bn. Oxylabs announced the raise on Thursd…

France plans to triple penalties for AI-driven election disinformation
France plans to triple penalties for AI-driven election disinformation

French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu has announced a bill to sharply increase penalties for spreading false content during elections. He set out the plan in the Senate on 8 July, according to Public Sénat, in response to a question about AI in the c…