A security researcher reveals a vulnerability in Honda Civic headunits allowing physical access attackers to install malicious updates via USB, dubbed ‘EvilValet’.
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Aleph Alpha. The retrospective case.
Analyzing Aleph Alpha’s strategic pivot, leadership changes, and recent merger to understand the costs of late structural adaptation in European AI.
Engineering Is Automated. Research Is the Residual.
Recent advances show AI can now automate most engineering tasks, but research still relies heavily on human creativity, raising strategic questions.
Software engineering. The canonical case.
Empirical data confirms a 40% drop in junior developer hiring since 2022, with senior engineers mostly augmented by AI. The sector faces a bifurcated impact and a looming pipeline crisis.
OpenEuroLLM. The third path.
OpenEuroLLM, a major pan-European project, faces significant compute challenges despite progress. First models expected July 2026.
The Coding Singularity Is Real — and Steeper Than Clark Presented
New data confirms the AI-driven coding singularity is advancing faster than previously estimated, with broader deployment implications emerging in 2026.
Mistral. The fourth path.
Mistral, a venture-backed French AI firm, has raised $830M, shipped six products, and is Europe’s strongest single-company AI effort, yet still trails US leaders in capability.
Minerva. The opposite path.
Italy’s Minerva project trained from scratch on 2.5 trillion tokens, yet scored only 4.9% on Italian academic tests, raising questions about native-language investment.
The Forecast Is the Plan.
Major AI labs publicly commit to automating AI R&D by 2026, signaling a strategic shift towards automation as a core goal, with significant implications for the sector.
AMÁLIA · The Three Hard Questions.
Portugal’s €5.5M AMÁLIA model is operational, but key questions about openness, native data, and goals remain unanswered as the project advances.
