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Where are the big AI pushes of this summer?

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If you want to see what’s really moving this summer, stop scrolling announcements and open the AI dashboard at artificialanalysis.ai . It turns noise into shape by lining up models against costs, context windows, and measured competence. You can watch the price-to-performance frontier inch forward—cheap “utility” models becoming surprisingly capable while high-end “reasoners” stake out narrower, high-impact domains. The mood isn’t hype so much as compression: more capability per euro, and less tolerance for waste. What can you actually learn there? Costs are no longer a mysterious line item; the dashboard breaks out input and output token pricing, surfaces latency and throughput, and lets you weigh long-context promises against the realities of speed and budget. Intelligence is treated with some humility—scores across reasoning, coding, and language offer texture rather than a single crown, a reminder that what counts as “smart” depends on the job at hand. That perspective makes it ...
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and during that hot summer....

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Across Europe, the calendar softens in July and August. Beaches and mountain trails fill, inboxes slow to a humane pace, and many leaders finally find the untidy, generative space to connect ideas that have been jostling for attention since spring. Out of that quiet comes a different kind of energy: not the brittle rush of deadlines, but the steadier conviction that follows perspective. It’s often in these warm weeks that AI stops being a headline and starts to look like something you can actually touch, shape, and put to work. Back under the sun, speculation also matures. Will we see IPOs from OpenAI and Anthropic, and what would public markets demand in return—clearer governance, more predictable unit economics, sharper answers on the compute supply chain? Or will a new player, perhaps from an unexpected European lab or an open-source coalition, announce something smaller yet smarter: a model that sips power, understands context, and nestles into actual workflows rather than chasi...
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Just back from WeAreDevelopers in Berlin!

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Just back from Berlin and still buzzing from WeAreDevelopers 2026 — the kind of week that reminds you Europe’s tech scene isn’t a sideshow, it’s the main act. Werner Vogels’ “Impossible made possible” keynote struck that rare balance of humility and ambition, weaving AWS’s long transformation into a simple idea: breakthroughs follow from patient architecture and unglamorous discipline. It was less fireworks, more load‑bearing honesty about primitives, culture, and stubborn customer focus. For leaders wrestling with AI promises and procurement realities, it felt like permission to be both brave and exacting at the same time. The F1 session on building an AI‑led system of work was the standout case study because it felt transferable beyond the paddock. You could see how telemetry becomes a nervous system, how human judgment and machine inference trade leads in real time, and how orchestration — not genius — wins the race. Hospitals, logistics networks, even municipal services will reco...
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When Your Own Marketing Becomes a Legal Brief: Anthropic's Eventful Summer

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Some companies dream of a quiet, orderly march toward their IPO. Anthropic, it seems, prefers the scenic route. The firm filed confidential IPO paperwork with the SEC on 1 June 2026, reportedly putting it on track to be the first AI company to test public markets at a valuation flirting with the trillion-dollar mark. A fine moment to project calm competence — which is, of course, precisely when the universe tends to schedule its plot twists. On 9 June, Anthropic launched Fable 5 and Mythos 5; three days later, both models were offline everywhere in the world.  The cause was not a glamorous corporate scandal but something more bureaucratically dramatic: the U.S. Commerce Department invoked national security export controls to bar the company from distributing the models to any foreign national — a category that, awkwardly, included Anthropic's own non-citizen employees. The directive landed at 5:21 p.m. Eastern on a Friday, because regulators apparently share my fondness for ruining...
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A New Wave of Skills and Certifications...

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  In our line of work, standing still is the quickest way to fall behind. The technology landscape reinvents itself roughly every eighteen months, and clients quite reasonably expect their consultants to have read the memo — ideally before they did. That is why we have invested, once again, in a fresh round of training and certifications across cloud, AI, and modern infrastructure. Think of it as keeping our toolbox sharp, our methods current, and our coffee consumption heroically high. Certifications, of course, are not trophies to be admired on a shelf (though we will admit they look rather nice on LinkedIn). Their real value lies in what they enable: faster diagnostics, sounder architecture decisions, and the quiet confidence that comes from knowing the difference between a passing trend and a foundation worth building on. Each badge represents hours of study, a few late evenings, and the occasional muttered conversation with a documentation page that refused to cooperate. Wha...
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Doing more with less in public services...

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Across Europe, public administrations are being asked to do more with less: ageing populations, rising service expectations, and tight fiscal constraints have become the norm rather than the exception. Digital transformation, once about putting forms online, now blends automation with AI to unclog the back office and simplify the citizen’s journey. Case files can be summarised in seconds, triaged more fairly, and translated across languages without losing nuance; routine verifications can be automated with auditable trails, not opaque shortcuts. The productivity story is not only about speed, but about quality, consistency, and the space for human judgment where it matters most. For the workforce, this is not a tale of mass replacement but of work changing shape. Expect the routine to thin out and the complex to thicken, with public servants spending more time on interpretation, outreach, and decisions that require empathy and proportionality. New roles are already appearing—product...
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