Aleph Alpha has released Kolibri, a language model for governments and regulated industries that want control over their data. Its maker announced a merger with Canada's Cohere in April. In Denmark, hackers reached the personal data of 8.8 million people through a company that had legitimate access to the national registry.
Amazon put an email address in its legal notice that did not work, and a Berlin court has ruled that this violates Germany's Digital Services Act: consumers must be able to reach a company directly and efficiently, not only through a logged-in account. Nvidia, meanwhile, is 300 billion dollars short of a 6 trillion dollar valuation, the same sum ASML needs to reach its first trillion.
The European Commission plans to bring AWS and Azure under the Digital Markets Act, while a European satellite-data cloud and a Dutch open source agreement show what alternatives can look like. Data protection gained both stricter enforcement guidance and an economic argument, consumer authorities turned to in-game currencies and scams, and Europe's innovation strength still outruns its venture capital.