Europe’s AI Sovereignty Push, Asia’s Export-Control Opening, and Faster AI Bug Hunting | UpNext AI – June 29, 2026
A quick catch-up on the AI stories shaping strategy, markets, and security to start the week. Today: Europe’s push to build more sovereign AI capacity, Asian model makers using export-control uncertainty as an opening, a research paper on using LLMs to find business-logic vulnerabilities much faster, and three notable headlines on OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 lineup, the widening open-model ecosystem, and an AI assistant hacking challenge.
Covered in this episode:
- Europe’s new urgency around AI sovereignty and why leaders there no longer want to rely on American models
- Asian startups launching…
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