European Commission will provisionally apply the EU Mercosur trade deal after Argentina and Uruguay ratified, starting tariff cuts before final EU votes.
Business
Eurostat said the EU posted a €28.4bn extra-EU goods trade surplus in Q4 2025 as exports totaled €643bn and imports €614.6bn; energy deficit offset surplus gains.
Travel
European Commission adopted an EU visa strategy that could allow multiple-entry Schengen visas to last beyond five years, alongside digital visa reforms in 2026.
Technology
European Parliament disables built-in AI tools on work-issued devices in Brussels, citing cybersecurity and data-protection risks tied to cloud processing today.
Antonio Guterres called India a successful emerging economy, and said it is the right place to host the AI Impact Summit, now under way in New Delhi, Feb 16-20.
Maia 200 is Microsoft’s second-gen AI chip for inference, designed for Azure data centers with HBM3e memory, on-chip SRAM, and linked scaling.
Apple boosts wireless performance on supported Macs and iPads through software updates that unlock wider Wi-Fi channels and higher throughput on 5 GHz networks.
At CES in Las Vegas, Nvidia introduced Alpamayo, an open AI model suite for autonomous vehicles, alongside new chips designed for training and inference workloads.
One in five EU enterprises now use AI, Eurostat reports, marking rapid growth in technology adoption across Europe in 2025.

