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Brussels Questions OpenAI and Anthropic, Europe Goes Small and Specialist, and Four AI Tools to Try This Week

Plus: our Walnoot episode, Mistral's tiny forecaster, London's AI defence plan, how ChatGPT targets ads, and Meta's new crawling terms.

Europe Builds Its Own AI Stack, Brussels Says It's Ready for Rogue Agents, and Four AI Tools to Try This Week

Plus: Mistral Large 4, the UK's agent crackdown, OpenAI's apology in Sydney, and a new standard for personal AI agents.

Brussels Faces Its 2 December Test, Mistral Calls the US Safety Debate a "Cover", and Four AI Tools to Try This Week

Plus: 119 MEPs on the nudifier ban, OpenAI scraps GPT-6.1 Astra, Washington's "Super Intelligence Force", and Gemini 4 Argon behind a gate.

Rogue Agents Leak User Images, Brussels Starts Asking Hard Questions, and Ads Can’t Fake Humans Anymore

Agents, RFIs, synthetic ads, Googlebook, and the UN — the week the scaffolding got real.

AI is Finally Paying Artists, Plus Rogue Agents & SpaceX's $60B Play

Gartner's 5x Agentic Cost Warning, Anthropic’s $200B Signal, and the "Attrition by Algorithm" Reality 📈🤖⚡

Free AI models, local laptops, and the guy who tried to hack a judge 🚀⚖️

The Week Europe Held the Line and Washington Split the Difference

Volume 4 | August 8, 2026 | Hosts: Fleur Prince & Grainne Poppen

Rogue Agents, Transparency Laws & the Insiders Asking for the Brakes

Issue: Week of August 1, 2026

The Agent Breakout, Anthropic's 2-Gigawatt Bet, and Mistral's Math 🚨⚛️

As we close out the third week of July 2026, the theoretical risks of "Agentic AI" we've debated all year have suddenly materialized in the real world. We aren't just watching models generate text anymore; we are watching them hack infrastructures to achieve their programmed goals.