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Major supermarket chains in Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg, and Estonia reported suspected cyberattacks that remotely tampered with their fridge and freezer cooling systems, raising temperatures and threatening food supplies across Europe.

Supermarket chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg reported a second suspected cyber-attack that remotely raised freezer and fridge temperatures across dozens of stores, following a larger French incident affecting up to 700 supermarkets and causing millions in food losses.

ERICI (European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative) launches an open, non-commercial reference stack spanning firmware, hypervisor, real-time and Linux OSes, verified to boot together on new RVA23 RISC-V hardware to break the software-hardware adoption deadlock in industrial computing.

European countries are increasingly capturing waste heat from crematoria to warm homes, swimming pools, and public buildings, turning an otherwise wasted byproduct into a low-carbon energy source that reduces fuel costs.

As AI-driven data center growth strains Europe's electricity grids, EU governments are moving to prioritize housing and renewables over data centers in grid connection queues, with Ireland serving as a cautionary example of the consequences.

Stripe is collecting and publishing empirical data on European startups and computing power, with Patrick Collison saying he hopes this will provide valuable insights for Europe's entrepreneurship and industry.

Meta的欧洲广告收入增长因欧盟《数字市场法》要求推出“低个性化广告”选项而显著放缓，欧盟地区增速落后于美加市场，监管压力正成为其广告业务的实际拖累。

At GTC Berlin, major European banks and financial firms showcased production-scale AI built on NVIDIA accelerated computing and open-weight models, including Revolut's PRAGMA foundation model, Lloyds' ATUM, and Starling Intelligence. Institutions like Santander, NatWest, and bunq are adopting NVIDIA's Nemotron and Kumo model families to build proprietary intelligence on their own data at lower cost.

NVIDIA highlighted how European retailers are adopting its open models and physical intelligence technologies, with Shopify cutting inference costs by 90% and retailers like zooplus, Vestiaire Collective, and L'Oréal using digital twins and AI for product discovery, image processing, and research.

NVIDIA announced that organizations across Europe, including AXA, Vaisala Xweather, University of Manchester, and TotalEnergies, are deploying its Earth-2 open AI weather and climate models, with the new StormScope EU regional nowcasting model joining the family at GTC Berlin.

NVIDIA 和其欧洲合作伙伴宣布多项利用开放模型的公共服务项目，涵盖欧盟委员会的 AI@EC 平台、波兰的医疗影像与就业服务智能体系统，以及英国本地化数据建设。

At Nvidia's GTC in Berlin, Jensen Huang laid out a European vision centered on modular plug-and-play DSX Pod data centers, physical AI, and AI agents, while announcing robotics platforms and partnerships with VW and Mercedes.

NVIDIA highlights how its European cloud partners — including Nscale, Crusoe, Nebius, Vultr, G42 and others — are scaling sovereign AI infrastructure built on Vera Rubin and the DSX platform, adding capacity, power-efficient inference and open-model support across Europe, the Nordics, Africa and Central Asia.

欧洲工业巨头正与 NVIDIA 合作，利用 CUDA-X、Omniverse、Cosmos 和 Nemotron 等技术革新工程与制造流程，并推出工厂运营蓝图 FOX，西门子、梅赛德斯-奔驰、Cadence 和 Autodesk 等企业已采用相关方案以提升生产力并降低成本。

NVIDIA announced an expanded family of open models across language, robotics, biology and quantum computing—including Nemotron 3.5 Super VL/Bolt, Nemotron Retriever, Kumo, Cosmos 3.5, Alpamayo 2 Edge, BioNeMo and Ising—to help European organizations build sovereign, locally customized AI applications.

在 GTC Berlin 2026 主题演讲中，NVIDIA CEO 黄仁勋宣布 DSX POD 与 DSX AI 工厂平台等新品，强调欧洲在 AI 经济中的角色，并将智能体（agents）视为新的计算平台。

德国计划到2030年将数据中心规模翻倍、AI算力提升四倍，但其气候承诺与《能源效率法》中要求数据中心回收废热的规定产生冲突，政府最终在行业压力下弱化了该要求，凸显欧洲在AI扩张与减排目标之间的两难。

Nvidia 投资了四家德国初创公司（Agile Robots、Avelios Medical、Mirelo、Reflex Aerospace），作为其近100亿美元欧洲AI基础设施承诺的一部分，并在柏林Invest in Germany峰会上与德国政府及西门子、奔驰达成工业AI合作。

European AI cloud providers and server manufacturers are adopting NVIDIA's Vera CPUs to build local, sovereign AI infrastructure optimized for agentic workloads, with early adopters reporting strong performance across data processing, analytics, and agent sandbox environments.

A Google Cloud outage disrupted banking services and numerous other operations across Europe, highlighting reliance on cloud infrastructure for critical financial systems.