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Multilingual AI has a longitude problem. For centuries, sailors could fix their latitude from the stars, but not their longitude, until a Yorkshire clockmaker built a timepiece precise enough to survive the ocean. Marzieh Fadaee, Head of Cohere Labs, has described her own research in almost identical terms: she is "exploring the longitude problem of AI" (X), the puzzle of giving language models a genuine sense of place when nearly everything about how they are built, measured and rewarded still points due English.

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In April 2026, Uber's engineering leadership discovered that a five-thousand-person team had burned through the company's entire annual AI budget in four months. Per-engineer token costs were running $500 to $2,000 a month, usage had doubled in eight weeks, and the company's COO admitted the surge in spend wasn't translating into proportionally better products (Forbes,Reuters). Uber was not an outlier. The FinOps Foundation's 2026 State of FinOps report found that 73% of enterprises exceeded their original AI cost projections this year, even as the price of a single token kept falling (TechCrunch).

That paradox, cheaper tokens and bigger bills, is exactly the terrain Meryem Arik has spent the last several years mapping. Meryem is Co-founder and CEO of Doubleword, a London-based inference platform that helps enterprises self-host open source and custom AI models (Doubleword), and she was recently interviewed by our Chief Editor, Fawn Hudgens, to talk through what she calls the "hot open weight summer": a moment when cost pressure and a jolt of geopolitical risk are forcing enterprise leaders to rethink how they buy intelligence, not just which model they buy.

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On 30 July 2026, the European Commission opened a call to build up to seven AI Gigafactories, pairing €10 billion in public funding with an ambition to mobilise at least €20 billion in private investment. It is Brussels’ largest infrastructure push yet—and a reminder of how far Europe still has to go to secure the compute, cloud capacity and strategic options that advanced AI requires. European Commission | Reuters

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The strategic promise of agentic AI is not that work gets faster. It is that organisations can start to redesign how work moves and what an agentic AI operating model actually looks like in practice.

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AI is no longer just answering questions. In more and more systems, it is deciding what to do next: moving money, changing prices, rewriting workflows, dispatching people and machines. “Agentic AI” has become the shorthand, but the more important reality is this: a growing share of consequential actions in the economy is being taken by software that is allowed to act with limited human oversight.

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For years, data centres sat in the background: expensive, essential, and mostly invisible. In the AI era, that has changed. Data centres have quietly become the physical backbone of digital power – and increasingly, a geopolitical asset in their own right.

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For years, Europe has been cast as the world’s AI referee: strong on rules, light on hyperscalers. That story is only half‑true now.

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