Horizon Europe, EuroHPC, AI factories and the research base behind European tech. Coverage from Continental Brief.
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has launched an ongoing call for proposals to grant preliminary access to quantum infrastructure across four European sites for testing and development work.
A new collaborative project brings together European and Japanese researchers to develop hybrid quantum-accelerated supercomputing systems, with funding of around €4 million from Horizon Europe and Japan's innovation programme.
A patchwork of conflicting state AI regulations threatens to slow innovation and undermine the federal government's ability to adopt commercial AI tools, according to Daniel Castro of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.
Over a dozen academics warn that social media and messaging apps fundamentally alter how people process information and reach collective decisions, creating urgent risks from false and misleading content.
A coalition of academics argues that the study of how social media and messaging apps affect collective behaviour should be treated with the same urgency as medicine or climate science, calling for a Hippocratic oath in tech.
Industry leaders warn the government has roughly a year to establish a national framework for sharing data centre benefits with local communities, or risk facing the organised opposition already blocking projects in the US.
Finnish law enforcement has signalled that preparations for rolling out a digital identity credential are substantially complete, with the system set to launch in 2027 through a wallet managed by the country's Digital and Population Data Services Agency.
Teams at the e-Governance Academy continue EU-backed cybersecurity projects in Ukraine despite constant Russian attacks, air raid alerts lasting up to 20 hours daily, and the psychological toll of living in an active war zone.