Europe's battery-electric vehicle (BEV) market share reached 20.7% of new car registrations in the first half of 2026, up from 15.6% a year earlier, with sales topping 1.24 million units, a 33.7% incr…
France's AI regulations, including the EU AI Act and the Loi SREN, are now in effect, requiring AI-generated content to be labeled and high-risk AI systems to be registered with the French data protec…
France lowered its foreign direct investment screening threshold from 25% to 10% of voting rights for non-European investors in sensitive sectors, including cryptology, artificial intelligence, and se…
The European Union opened a competition on July 30 to establish up to seven privately operated AI gigafactories, offering up to €10 billion in combined EU and national support and seeking at least €20…
A coalition of 19 government agencies from nine countries, including the United States, South Korea, Japan, and the United Kingdom, warned on Friday that North Korean IT workers are using artificial i…
The European Commission has opened bidding to build up to seven AI 'gigafactories' in a roughly €30 billion effort to close the gap with American and Chinese AI, with Brussels and member states contri…
The eurozone economy grew 0.4% in the second quarter, beating expectations of 0.2%, driven by surging AI investment and government spending, Eurostat data showed on Thursday. Annual growth accelerated…
France must build 12GW of compute capacity under a proposed 'Plan Prométhée' to create a sovereign frontier AI lab within three years, according to an analysis prompted by U.S. export controls on Anth…
Microsoft has announced a multi-billion dollar investment in Europe, partnering with French AI startup Mistral to distribute its technology through Microsoft's cloud and software platforms. The deal a…
French automotive supplier Valeo will design and manufacture rare-earth-free electric drone motors for defense tech firm Harmattan AI entirely in France, the companies announced Monday. The motors, fo…
AI is spreading beyond the tech industry into non-tech roles across the broader economy, according to new data from Indeed. In the US, the number of AI-touched job titles has more than tripled since 2…
AI models DeepSeek and Claude AI incorrectly predicted France would beat England in the FIFA World Cup 2026 third-place match, with DeepSeek forecasting a 3-2 win and Claude a 2-1 win, while the actua…
Microsoft Copilot predicts a 2-1 win for France over England in the World Cup third-place match today, citing France's strong attack and the Mbappé-Dembélé partnership. The AI forecast includes goals …
France and Germany pledged on Friday to develop a European alternative to Palantir's military AI software, with France's Arcadia platform as the starting point. The joint declaration, signed after tal…
France and Germany pledged Friday to explore developing an alternative to military software from U.S. company Palantir, aiming to reduce European reliance on American technology. The two countries sai…
An AI tool called Predicd, which uses historical data, head-to-head form, and in-game performance indicators like expected goals, predicts Spain will defeat Argentina in the World Cup final. The tool …
A developer running a team of AI sub-agents from a Raspberry Pi in France identified four structural failure modes in multi-agent orchestration: agents incorrectly concluding absence from a single sea…
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is launching an autonomous AI avatar, PMX AI, built by Zetrix AI Bhd., to help citizens with tasks like renewing driving licenses and providing career advice. Th…
A new analysis of 3,519 AI-related job postings across eight EU countries reveals that for every professional hired to govern AI, nearly seven are hired to build it, with Sweden showing the widest gap…
AI skills are appearing in job listings across industries, with 63% of AI-related job titles in the US now outside tech occupations, according to Indeed's Hiring Lab. The number of job postings mentio…