
'Resilience' Is Now A Legal Defense For EU Dominance
The European Commission's new Article 102 guidelines let dominant firms defend price and supply conduct by proving it protects resilience, public health, safety, or EU sustainability goals.

The European Commission's new Article 102 guidelines let dominant firms defend price and supply conduct by proving it protects resilience, public health, safety, or EU sustainability goals.

Paradox is refunding PlayStation pre-orders of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 because PSN has no partial-refund mechanic for a price change, not because it was the company's first choice.

Security researchers at Calif used AI to turn a WeChat calling bug into a self-spreading, zero-click worm in about six weeks, a job that once took a skilled team months.

China's new five-year plan targets 9,800 exaflops of AI compute by 2030 and 3.8 trillion yuan in investment, built around Huawei's own chip roadmap rather than Nvidia's.

ASML, TSMC and Samsung committed to High-NA EUV lithography this week, but the photomask upgrade that actually unlocks it does not reach production until 2033.

Google rolled out EU search changes on September 8 that favor comparison sites over direct business links, and called it the largest quality drop in its 29-year history.

DeepMind released a 1-petabyte map predicting the effect of 9 billion possible DNA changes. It is free today. Commercial Google Cloud access is coming soon.

Valheim exits Early Access on September 9, 2026 after five and a half years, raising its Steam price 50 percent for new buyers while existing owners get the 1.0 update free.

Isar Aerospace reached orbit from Andoya, Norway on September 5, 2026, becoming the first European commercial company to deliver satellites to orbit, on its second flight.

Anthropic walked away from a $6 billion deal to buy Decart on September 8, 2026, weeks after due diligence began and weeks before a planned IPO.

The British Business Bank announced a GBP150m Northern scale-up fund on September 7, 2026. It is described as proposed, with no fund manager appointed and no date for when capital reaches a company.

Munich's regional court ruled against Suno on July 31, 2026, and rejected the argument that EU AI Act transparency disclosures substitute for a copyright license. It is GEMA's second such win in a year.
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