Iran has resumed its attacks, and in Jordan, sixty Patriot interceptors were deployed in a single night. Ukraine is requesting three hundred; the more that are used up in the Middle East, the fewer will reach Kyiv. Calculations

Canadian officials are discussing the broadest possible ties, right up to the limit of EU membership, which is legally impossible. All options are on the table: rewriting the CETA agreement, negotiating a new treaty or creating new forms of cooperation. But it will take more than a couple of speeches in Strasbourg to build the pact

Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old employee at Anthropic and a researcher who previously worked at OpenAI, has resigned because, in his view, Dario Amodei’s company and its competitors are building something they will not be able to control

The AI race is propelling not only Nvidia but also Caterpillar, lorry drivers, construction firms and logistics companies. Behind ChatGPT lie bulldozers, cables, water and energy: so ‘digital gold’ requires very tangible infrastructure

The Ministry of the Interior, led since 2018 by former magistrate Fernando Grande-Marlaska, had been systematically compiling files on journalists, complete with passport photos and everything, including a definition of their (alleged) political ideology. The scoop by the daily newspaper Confidencial and the resistance amongst ministry officials

Even at Macron’s International Space Summit, the talk is of sovereignty, and little of unity

The EU is now protesting against the “conspiracy trial” orchestrated by Saied, in which dozens of opposition figures have been jailed for sending text messages to foreign diplomats. Chats from those convicted: “I didn’t know that was a crime in this country.”

The Magyar government is restoring a sense of sovereignty to the country. This is not a diplomatic break but a clear break with the past.