Europe's Satellite Internet Constellation Launches Its First Batch
Thirty satellites went up from French Guiana on Friday, the start of a network meant to give governments an alternative to American providers.
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A Small Research Lab Says It Has Built the First A.I. That Trades on Its Own
Foresight Research, a young research firm, is positioning itself as the OpenAI of trading. Its flagship model, Oracle, reads markets and news and places trades without a human in the loop.
Small Drones, Big Questions: Europe Rewrites the Rules of Its Lower Airspace
A new framework would require every drone above 250 grams to broadcast its position, and would give cities the power to declare no-fly corridors in minutes rather than months.
Paris A.I. Lab Releases a Freely Downloadable Model It Says Matches the Best Commercial Systems
Lumière Labs published the weights of its 400-billion-parameter model under a license allowing commercial use, intensifying a debate in Europe over open A.I. and the Continent’s dependence on American platforms.
Phone Makers Race to Redesign Devices as E.U. Replaceable-Battery Rule Nears
From February 2027, every portable device sold in the bloc must have a battery that users can swap with common tools. Repair shops are delighted; engineers say waterproofing is the hard part.
Europe’s Digital Identity Wallet Nears Its Deadline With 11 Countries Live and 16 Lagging
By the end of the year, every E.U. member must offer citizens a phone-based wallet for I.D., diplomas and prescriptions. Estonia and Italy are ahead; Germany is behind.
Dutch Quantum Start-Up Raises 640 Million Euros in Europe’s Largest Deep-Tech Round of the Year
Orbital Qubits, spun out of a Delft university lab, says it will use the money to build a 1,000-qubit machine by 2029, as European governments scramble to keep quantum talent from leaving.
Inside the Race to Make Europe's Chips in Dresden
Three new fabrication plants are rising in Saxony. The engineers to run them are harder to find than the subsidies that paid for them.
Five E.U. Countries Begin Requiring Age Checks for Social Media, Testing a Bloc-Wide Model
Denmark, France, Spain, Greece and Ireland will require platforms to verify that users are at least 15 using a common digital credential, in a pilot that could become binding across the European Union next year.
Humanoid Robots Have Arrived at the Trade Show. The Factory Is Another Matter.
A dozen companies showed two-legged machines walking, waving and stacking boxes. Asked how many were earning their keep, most changed the subject.
