EU selects EUROPA for sovereign model; Shazeer joins OpenAI

Europe picks Italian-led EUROPA for its open-source frontier AI, Shazeer joins OpenAI, and agentjacking puts coding agents on alert.

• Europe selects EUROPA to build its open-source frontier model in all 24 EU languages
• Noam Shazeer, transformer co-inventor, leaves Google for OpenAI
• "Agentjacking" lets attackers run code on developers' machines by fooling AI assistants
• FERC orders six US grid operators to rethink how AI data centres connect to the power supply
• SpaceX closes $60 billion deal for AI coding platform Cursor — the largest VC-backed startup acquisition ever
• PwC survey of one billion job ads finds AI reshaping, not replacing, most roles