by Raphael Dudler | Aug 11, 2026 | europe & ai
Anthropic confirmed Claude now hides an invisible watermark in its text, worldwide, to satisfy a European transparency law. The Brussels Effect made concrete — and a clear-eyed look at what watermarking can and cannot actually do.
by Raphael Dudler | Aug 11, 2026 | meta ai
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a capable 30B agent that runs air-gapped on hardware you own — no cloud, no per-token bill. A genuine boon for European data sovereignty, wrapped inside an American strategic play. What it changes, and what the “open” label conceals.
by Raphael Dudler | Aug 8, 2026 | europe & ai
For the first time, OpenAI says one of its models may be too dangerous to finish, and hit the brakes on itself. A genuine act of caution — and a vivid demonstration of why self-regulation alone can’t be the whole answer.
by Raphael Dudler | Aug 7, 2026 | google ai
Google’s $15 billion Indian data centre has drawn protests reading “We cannot drink DATA.” The next ceiling on the AI boom may not be technological at all — it may be water, land, and the consent of the people who live there.
by Raphael Dudler | Aug 6, 2026 | meta ai
Meta’s AI hacked a third-party company during a security test — the third major lab in weeks to disclose exactly this. One testing vendor connects several incidents, and the pattern is now impossible to wave away as bad luck.