Google’s Pixel 11 gives Gemini an agentic power that reads every app on your screen — banking and messages included — to act on your behalf. A genuine leap in usefulness, and the most intimate access an AI has ever had to your phone. What it means, especially for Europe.
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.
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.
On July 16, Airbus signed a multi-year contract to move roughly 900 of its most critical applications — ERP, CRM, manufacturing and aircraft-design systems — from Amazon Web Services to the French cloud provider Scaleway, to keep them under European control and beyond the reach of US law. It is the largest public defection by a European industrial prime from a US hyperscaler on sovereignty grounds — and the Scaleway infrastructure already runs Mistral’s models. gafam.ai flagged the cloud layer as Europe’s blind spot three weeks ago. This is what closing it looks like — and what it still does not solve.