Biotech & Experimental Art

Humanoid robotics in Q2 2026 are shipping at pilot and mass-production levels, with Chinese firms leading in units, while Western companies focus on prestige deployments.

• Cornford and Cross Team
• June 16, 2026

Spain launches ALIA, a 40B parameter multilingual AI trained on 9.37 trillion tokens, highlighting strategic positioning and operational capabilities.

• Cornford and Cross Team
• June 15, 2026

An analysis of EuroHPC’s compute substrate, its current capabilities, structural challenges, and implications for Europe’s AI ambitions.

• Cornford and Cross Team
• June 15, 2026

Apertus, developed by the Swiss AI Initiative, is a new open, multilingual, compliance-first AI model, offering a novel structural approach for European AI sovereignty.

• Cornford and Cross Team
• June 15, 2026

An analysis of Aleph Alpha’s strategic pivot, acquisition, and what it reveals about Europe’s AI development challenges and timing.

• Cornford and Cross Team
• June 14, 2026

Recent developments suggest AI can now automate most engineering tasks in AI R&D, but research remains less automated, raising strategic questions.

• Cornford and Cross Team
• June 14, 2026

Italy’s Minerva project trained from scratch on 2.5 trillion tokens but scored just 4.9% on Italian school exams, raising questions about native-language investment.

• Cornford and Cross Team
• June 14, 2026

Major AI labs publicly commit to automating AI research by September 2026, signaling a strategic shift toward automation as a core objective.

• Cornford and Cross Team
• June 14, 2026

Portugal’s €5.5M AMÁLIA project is operational, but key questions about openness, native data, and goals remain unanswered amid broader European efforts.

• Cornford and Cross Team
• June 14, 2026

Senior CTOs and technical leaders are shifting from traditional SaaS and enterprise roles to hands-on positions at Anthropic, signaling a shift in tech power dynamics.

• Cornford and Cross Team
• June 9, 2026