European AI firms trail US and Chinese competitors, but open-source projects and regulation could help continent catch up, ...

Qwen, released by Alibaba, is the new model making waves because it technically surpasses the likes of DeepSeek and ChatGPT.

First to act was Rome, which launched an investigation into DeepSeek and said it was blocking the upstart Chinese app from possessing Italian users' data. Italy's Data Protection Authority briefly ...