The European Union is set to lift a sanction on a Chinese firm after seeking relief from China for sanctions that threatened the survival of Sindlhauser Materials GmbH, an ASML supplier. The available text does not identify the Chinese firm or describe the terms of the proposed relief.
Russian bot farms continue trolling after Ukraine’s drone strikes on Yandex. Zelenskyy celebrated “less division” on social media after the strikes, but the data does not yet support that assessment.
Ecosia is replacing French AI provider Mistral with open-source and open-weight models through AI platform Melious, including Chinese models Qwen, GLM and Kimi. CEO Christian Kroll cites recurring server problems and disappointing quality, saying the new arrangement roughly halves costs while improving quality and performance. The shift reflects Ecosia’s view that open models offer Europe a route to stronger AI without the expense of training frontier systems, despite concerns about censorship and bias in Chinese models.
EU regulators are questioning Binance over its use of a legal exemption to serve customers in the region without securing a license. Securities regulators are examining the exemption used by the world’s biggest crypto exchange.
