AI

Brussels hears US banks on red tape — and AI lending sits in the middle

The Bank Policy Institute filed its follow-up response to the Commission's banking competitiveness plan on 16 September. The rules being debated also shape how European banks can use AI for credit decisions.

September 17, 2026 Miriam Česáková

AI agents in practice: what they finish today and where they still break

 Most "AI agent" demos are a five-minute magic trick. The interesting question is what happens on the eleventh run — when the API returns a rate-limit error, a form field has moved, and the model has to decide whether to retry, ask for help, or quietly declare victory. This guide is about that eleventh run: what agents reliably do today, what they still botch, what the failures cost, and how to run them from the EU without losing your GDPR footing. 

First, define the word before you buy the hype

An "agent" is not a product category.

September 16, 2026 Daniel Cesak

Spain ranks 7th globally on AI — Brussels says the hard part starts now

At Barcelona's Forward Tech Summit, the European Commission's man in Spain pushed for faster AI adoption and more data centres — while binding EU AI Act obligations that took effect in August change what companies actually have to do.

September 15, 2026 Miriam Česáková

Agility's Digit 5 drops the safety cage — Europe's rules arrive in 2027

Agility Robotics unveiled Digit 5 with a cage-free safety architecture on NVIDIA's Halos stack. The order book looks impressive, the revenue doesn't — and EU machinery rules land in January 2027.

September 15, 2026 Daniel Cesak

Real-SWE: even Claude Fable 5.1 fails 6 in 10 tasks on private code

Specific Labs' new Real-SWE benchmark drops coding agents into private enterprise repositories instead of public GitHub issues. The best model solves 38.8% of tasks — and how it fails explains why your agent struggles on your code.

September 15, 2026 Daniel Cesak

SUTD Gave 3,000 Students One AI Login — and a Cost Problem Europe Shares

Singapore's SUTD now routes 3,000 students and 170 faculty through a single gateway to 15 AI models. The privacy plumbing is the clever part — but the price spread inside that gateway is what European institutions should study first.

September 15, 2026 Daniel Cesak

The EU's €30 million plan to stop charging you for the standards you must follow

A leaked Commission draft confirms plans to make harmonised European standards free to read and to give open-source developers a formal seat at the drafting table, with the proposal due on 6 October 2026.

September 14, 2026 Miriam Česáková

Agentic AI Arrived This Month — and Europe's Enforcement Powers Are Already Live

Four frontier models shipped in ten days, most built to act rather than answer. We converted September's token prices into euro and checked what the AI Act's live enforcement powers actually change for European teams.

September 14, 2026 Daniel Cesak

Agentic AI Moves to Production: The Token Math and EU Rules Behind the Hype

Q3 Technologies is scaling multi-step agentic automation for enterprise finance and logistics. The press release skips the invoice — so we priced a 20-step agent task across today's frontier models, and the spread is 72×.

September 14, 2026 Daniel Cesak

Google's API leaked an "RSI model" — what the evidence actually shows

A leaked API response contained the model name rsi-model-liverl-le, Google revoked keys within hours, and nobody has confirmed anything. Here is what the evidence shows — plus what a million tokens now costs in Europe.

September 14, 2026 Daniel Cesak

Subscribe to AI

AI

First, define the word before you buy the hype

Don't miss out!