Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces say they hit Novy Urengoy and Purovsky gas plants in Yamal-Nenets — claimed deepest strike of the war, >3,000 km from the border.Al JazeeraThe Guardian
Regional governor: drone debris sparked a fire at an industrial site in Novy Urengoy; he says no deaths/injuries and that the attack was otherwise repelled.Al Jazeera
Kremlin Urals envoy Artem Zhoga: first-ever strike on the Arctic part of the region (per Al Jazeera).Al Jazeera
Why it matters —Extends Kyiv’s long-range campaign into Russia’s Arctic gas heartland while overnight Russian strikes again hit Ukrainian cities and briefly pull NATO Poland into a readiness scramble.
European Commission spokesman (Thu): EU cybersecurity agency ENISA has been granted access to Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and is now testing it.Reuters
Same statement: ENISA was also granted access to OpenAI’s latest model, GPT-6-Astra.Reuters
Why it matters —Puts Europe’s cyber agency on frontier models just as labs face fresh scrutiny over agent/security incidents — useful for how EU regulators will actually probe these systems.
Handelsblatt: Bundeswehr is testing systems from 30 firms to fuse combat data in real time; story framed as introducing a Palantir alternative already in 2027.Handelsblatt
One path highlighted: sensor firm Hensoldt with KI startup Helsing and their MDOCore stack (simulated Shahed-swarm demo).Handelsblatt
Why it matters —Berlin is trading speed for sovereignty on battlefield decision-support software — with a 2027 prototype timeline that still trails Maven’s existing deployments.
Bitkom (survey of 603 firms ≥20 employees, KW 28–33 2026; among AI users): ChatGPT 76% (was 70% prior year); Microsoft Copilot 35% (28%); Google Gemini 28% (22%).Bitkom
Chinese apps barely register: DeepSeek 2%, Alibaba Qwen 1%. Llama 8%, SAP Joule 6%, Claude 3%; no surveyed firm reported Perplexity or European Mistral.Bitkom
Why it matters —Hard numbers behind the sovereignty talk: German corporate AI stack is still US-first even as Berlin funds defence/sovereign alternatives.
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