Austria’s digitalization leadership is urging the European Commission to examine whether Anthropic could be drawn into the EU after U.S. restrictions reportedly limited foreign access to the newest models from OpenAI and Anthropic. The proposal itself appears unlikely to advance, but it has turned a narrow access dispute into a broader question for Europe: whether enterprise AI strategy can rely on overseas model providers, or whether the region needs its own compute, models, and deployment stack.

Sina’s Weibo team has open-sourced VibeThinker-3B, a 3 billion-parameter model built on Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Coder-3B and tuned through a multi-stage post-training pipeline. According to reporting on the model’s technical report, it reaches much larger systems on math and coding benchmarks while trailing on knowledge-heavy tests, leading the researchers to propose that logical reasoning compresses efficiently into small models but broad factual knowledge does not.

Anthropic plans a US public listing, giving investors access to the Claude maker as its valuation nears $1 trillion.

WIRED reports that some asexual people are using AI companions to explore intimacy, role-play, and relationships without sex.