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The European Commission is making its most ambitious push yet toward technological independence. Brussels has updated its Chips Act and launched new programs aimed at reducing the continent's dependence on both American and Chinese technology. It's a signal that Europe is done waiting for others to secure its digital future.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, MIT Technology Review is out with what it calls the five things everyone needs to understand about AI right now. Drawn from a recent talk at SXSW London, the piece tackles the biggest themes reshaping the field — and notably, it's framed not as a celebration, but as a honest accounting of where we actually stand.
And on the security front, a warning worth taking seriously. AI-powered voice fraud is accelerating fast, and experts say enterprises are dangerously underprepared. As synthetic voices become nearly indistinguishable from real ones, the question of how we establish trust across a phone call is no longer theoretical — it's urgent.
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