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#14 4 Aug
Three enforcement checks came back empty
European Tech Sovereignty#1 2 Aug
Mentioned in: AI Office gains enforcement powers in August
European Tech Sovereignty#14 2 Aug
Mentioned in: AI Act fines land on a stale register
European Tech Sovereignty#1 2 Aug
“imposed gpai compliance obligations”
European Tech Sovereignty · source event
#11 31 Jul
Mentioned in: Marking code draws 190, none of them TV
Media's AI Pivot#14 30 Jul
Mentioned in: Germany declines to open an SAP case
European Tech Sovereignty#14 27 Jul
Mentioned in: Omnibus widens the AI Office's reach
European Tech Sovereignty#12 24 Jul
Mentioned in: Odisha signs a $1.5bn sovereign AI park
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#13 23 Jul
Mentioned in: Trump orders Section 301 probe into EU tech rules
European Tech Sovereignty#13 22 Jul
Fined for Search self-preferencing and Play anti-steering
European Tech Sovereignty: Google fined €890m four days before EU deadline#11 22 Jul
Mentioned in: Alphabet lifts 2026 capex to $205bn
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#18 21 Jul
Mentioned in: Alphabet adds 11,830 staff in a year
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#18 20 Jul
Mentioned in: Anthropic now outspends Nvidia in Washington
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#13 15 Jul
Ordered to open Android and share Search data
European Tech Sovereignty: Brussels orders Google to open Android to AI rivals#11 14 Jul
Mentioned in: Britain edges DNA screening into law
Pandemics and Biosecurity#10 13 Jul
Mentioned in: New York freezes new permits by decree
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#9 9 Jul
Partnered with Formula E on the nominated Strategy Agent
Media's AI Pivot: IBC names its agentic-editing award nominees#10 9 Jul
Mentioned in: Microsoft ends the Nightmare Eclipse run
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#11 2 Jul
Lost its final appeal against the Android antitrust fine
European Tech Sovereignty: Google loses €4.1bn EU Android appeal#10 26 Jun
Mentioned in: Trump's 100% tariff threat on digital taxes
European Tech Sovereignty#8 25 Jun
Amazon lifts India bet to $48bn
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#9 24 Jun
Fought to keep Botetourt County water-draw records sealed
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Virginia forces water draw into daylight#10 23 Jun
Mentioned in: Mistral ships self-hosted OCR 4 to Europe
European Tech Sovereignty#8 22 Jun
Mentioned in: Five Eyes warn AI threat is months away
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#8 22 Jun
Mentioned in: Chevron builds Microsoft a gas plant
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#9 20 Jun
Mentioned in: CuspAI raising $400m on Bezos money
UK Startups and Innovation#7 18 Jun
Mentioned in: WBD rebuilds ad stack on AWS agents
Media's AI Pivot#7 18 Jun
Mentioned in: Penske folds Vox titles into PMX
Media's AI Pivot#7 18 Jun
Mentioned in: Horizon ships its own buying layer
Media's AI Pivot#7 18 Jun
Mentioned in: WPP convenes six rivals on AI buying
Media's AI Pivot#7 16 Jun
Mentioned in: AI news use rises as trust stays low
Media's AI Pivot#6 15 Jun
Named explicitly in MOW's Search-Only Contracts as a target crawler subject to the £500 per-article charge
Media's AI Pivot: Publishers bill AI £500 a piece#6 15 Jun
Mentioned in: Fox pays $22bn for Roku's data
Media's AI Pivot#13 10 Jun
Mentioned in: States write the AI law Congress won't
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#9 9 Jun
Mentioned in: Brussels used antitrust to reopen WhatsApp
European Tech Sovereignty#6 5 Jun
Mentioned in: New York forces AI crawlers to sign in
Media's AI Pivot#7 4 Jun
Mentioned in: Ex-DeepMind founders raise £14.9m for Airspeed
UK Startups and Innovation#8 4 Jun
Removed as default search engine from European Parliament devices
European Tech Sovereignty: Parliament drops Google for Qwant search#7 3 Jun
Published a $17m water-stewardship pledge targeting 19 billion gallons of annual replenishment by 2030
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash: Google prices its water ahead of rules#6 3 Jun
Received binding CMA order to build opt-out tools for publisher content and to attribute publisher content inside AI search results
Media's AI Pivot: CMA orders a Google AI opt-out tool#7 3 Jun
Mentioned in: Apoha bets £26.7m on lab data
UK Startups and Innovation#7 3 Jun
Mentioned in: Attack worm kit now open-sourced freely
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#8 2 Jun
Mentioned in: Gartner sees EU sovereign cloud up 83%
European Tech Sovereignty#4 2 Jun
Mentioned in: Lenovo runs the World Cup AI feed
Media's AI Pivot#6 2 Jun
Mentioned in: Old Linux container bug back in the wild
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#10 1 Jun
Mentioned in: Bruegel says EU sovereignty mimics rivals
European Tech Sovereignty#6 28 May
Mentioned in: Orbital's $50m raise has no UK lead
UK Startups and Innovation#6 27 May
Mentioned in: EU sovereignty law slips a third time
European Tech Sovereignty#5 27 May
Mentioned in: Brussels locks 27 May for CAIDA and Chips II
European Tech Sovereignty#6 25 May
Faced Commission confirmation of a high triple-digit million euro DMA fine under Article 6(5)
European Tech Sovereignty: Brussels readies record Google DMA fine#3 19 May
Launched Gemini as the orchestration layer calling Canva, Adobe and CapCut within four days
Media's AI Pivot: Gemini makes Canva and Adobe callable#5 18 May
Mentioned in: GitHub's own code cloned via add-on
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#3 18 May
Mentioned in: Judge probes $1.5bn Anthropic class deal
Media's AI Pivot#4 18 May
Mentioned in: Baker Hughes drills geothermal for Meta
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#3 15 May
Mentioned in: Runway raises to $5.3bn as a world model
Media's AI Pivot#2 15 May
Mentioned in: Netflix confirms INKubator, no vendor named
Media's AI Pivot#9 15 May
Mentioned in: WARN Act untested: four AI cuts, zero enforcement actions
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#2 14 May
Mentioned in: Alsup withholds approval on Anthropic $1.5bn
Media's AI Pivot#2 14 May
Mentioned in: SMART Stories shows its CRDT working
Media's AI Pivot#2 13 May
Mentioned in: WBD ships agentic ads on its last upfront
Media's AI Pivot#4 12 May
Mentioned in: Sovereign AI unit backs Alphabet-owned lab
UK Startups and Innovation#2 12 May
Mentioned in: Paramount buys The Free Press for $150m
Media's AI Pivot#4 11 May
Mentioned in: UNC6780 takes Cisco AI Defense source code
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#4 11 May
Deployed Big Sleep autonomous vulnerability-discovery agent, which found its first real-world unknown bug; CodeMender began auto-patching critical code paths
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences: GTIG names the first LLM-written working zero-day#10 11 May
Mentioned in: Brussels gives no case number on Article 102 file
2026 FIFA World Cup#2 11 May
Mentioned in: Allen buys BuzzFeed for the AI bet
Media's AI Pivot#4 11 May
Mentioned in: UNC1069 expands the npm WAVESHAPER supply chain
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#4 8 May
Mentioned in: LiteLLM SQL injection hits in 36 hours
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#2 8 May
Mentioned in: Akamai puts Claude on the EU edge for $1.8bn
Media's AI Pivot#1 8 May
Mentioned in: News Corp names $1.5bn Anthropic settlement
Media's AI Pivot#4 7 May
Three EU-US deadlines collide in 9 days
European Tech Sovereignty#3 7 May
Mentioned in: CSIS calls for operational US-ROK cyber alliance
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#5 7 May
Mentioned in: CAIDA leak: US clouds barred from EU public data
European Tech Sovereignty#5 7 May
Mentioned in: AI Omnibus deal splits enforcement into two speeds
European Tech Sovereignty#3 5 May
UNC1069 planted WAVESHAPER.V2 in Axios via maintainer phishing
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#5 1 May
Mentioned in: Brussels moves Article 50 to December
Media's AI Pivot#4 1 May
Brussels keeps Google DMA replies sealed
European Tech Sovereignty#7 1 May
Remained subject to an unissued record DMA fine and an imminent 27 July search-data sharing ruling
European Tech Sovereignty: Google fine stuck on von der Leyen's desk#1 30 Apr
Mentioned in: Nine newsrooms back SMART STORIES open standard
Media's AI Pivot#2 30 Apr
Mentioned in: Hyperscalers raise 2026 capex to $725 billion
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#8 30 Apr
Mentioned in: Apple R&D up 33% as Tim Cook announces exit
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#8 29 Apr
Mentioned in: Meta raises capex twice, confirms 8k May cuts
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#3 29 Apr
Mentioned in: Hyperscalers post record $110.75bn Q1 capex
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#3 28 Apr
Mentioned in: Dex closes $5.3m matching ML talent
UK Startups and Innovation#4 28 Apr
Mentioned in: Commission says DMA is fit, eyes cloud
European Tech Sovereignty#3 27 Apr
Mentioned in: Ineffable lands $1.1bn seed, SAIU rides minority
UK Startups and Innovation#6 24 Apr
Mentioned in: Digital euro stays on its own track
European Tech Sovereignty#4 24 Apr
Mentioned in: Schwarz triangle closes at $20bn merger
European Tech Sovereignty#4 24 Apr
Mentioned in: CISPE ships rival sovereign cloud badge
European Tech Sovereignty#2 22 Apr
Mentioned in: Beazley shareholders clear Zurich's £8.1bn bid
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#3 19 Apr
Mentioned in: KB5091157, Gentlemen C2 intel, ENISA CNAs: in brief
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#3 17 Apr
Mentioned in: Commission awards sovereign cloud slot to Google joint venture
European Tech Sovereignty#2 17 Apr
Mentioned in: EU awards first sovereign cloud deal
European Tech Sovereignty#1 16 Apr
Mentioned in: Sovereign AI Unit to launch with £500m
UK Startups and Innovation#2 16 Apr
Received preliminary DMA measures requiring FRAND search data sharing with rivals and AI chatbots
European Tech Sovereignty: DMA orders Google to open search data#3 16 Apr
Required to share anonymised search ranking, query, click, and view data with rivals on FRAND terms
European Tech Sovereignty: DMA clock starts toward six-day AI Act collision#1 16 Apr
Mentioned in: Avid embeds Google Gemini in Media Composer
Media's AI Pivot#1 16 Apr
Mentioned in: IEA: 17% growth, $700B capex run-rate
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#2 16 Apr
European Tech Sovereignty · source event
#2 16 Apr
European Tech Sovereignty · source event
#2 16 Apr
Mentioned in: SAIU names seven firms in first cohort
UK Startups and Innovation#1 15 Apr
#2 15 Apr
Mentioned in: Meta faces DMA order on WhatsApp AI
European Tech Sovereignty#2 15 Apr
Mentioned in: ORG brands UK tech dependency a risk
European Tech Sovereignty#2 13 Apr
Mentioned in: OpenAI takes first permanent London base
European Tech Sovereignty#5 10 Apr
Mentioned in: Shield AI acquires Aechelon for autonomy
Drones: Industry & Defence#5 9 Apr
Mentioned in: Tom's Hardware challenges Mythos zero-day claims
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#5 8 Apr
Anthropic withholds Mythos from public release
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#5 8 Apr
“granted restricted model access via glasswing”
AI: Jobs, Power & Money · source event
#1 1 Apr
Mentioned in: Reach signs AWS pay-per-usage AI licensing deal
Media's AI Pivot#8 1 Apr
Alphabet books $35.7bn Q1 capex; backlog hits $460bn
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#8 31 Mar
Mentioned in: 24 MEPs name Digital Fairness Act
2026 FIFA World Cup#1 30 Mar
Mentioned in: Mistral raises $830m debt for GPU build
European Tech Sovereignty#1 28 Mar
Mentioned in: Granola hits $1.5bn in three years
UK Startups and Innovation#1 19 Mar
Mentioned in: BuzzFeed bets the company on Branch Office AI apps
Media's AI Pivot#8 11 Mar
Microsoft and Google back the Warner-Rounds bill
AI: Jobs, Power & Money#1 1 Mar
Mentioned in: Mistral CEO proposes EU-wide AI levy
European Tech Sovereignty#1 1 Mar
Mentioned in: Nscale raises $2bn in record European round
UK Startups and Innovation#1 1 Mar
Mentioned in: BRICKSTORM dwell hits 393 days, Mandiant
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences#1 1 Mar
Completed its $32 billion acquisition of cloud security vendor Wiz in March 2026
Cybersecurity: Threats and Defences: Google closes $32bn Wiz deal; 38 M&A#1 1 Mar
#1 1 Mar
“proposed levy disproportionately affecting”
European Tech Sovereignty · source event
#1 1 Feb
Mentioned in: Sovereign cloud spend set to triple by 2027
European Tech Sovereignty#1 1 Feb
“admitted as member undermining sovereignty mandate”
European Tech Sovereignty · source event
#1 1 Jan
Mentioned in: Brussels fines Apple, Meta, and X €820m
European Tech Sovereignty#1 1 Dec
Mentioned in: GE Vernova gas backlog hits 80 GW into 2029
Data Centres: Boom and Backlash#1 1 Oct