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Month: August 2026

  • Europe Will Certify the Robot. It Will Not Certify the Learning

    Europe Will Certify the Robot. It Will Not Certify the Learning

    How Autonomous AI Agents Collide with the Machinery Regulation, the AI Act, and a Shrinking Industrial Workforce A conformity certificate is a portrait. It fixes a machine at one instant, in one configuration, with one documented behavior, and asks the world to accept that likeness as permanent. Europe has spent four decades perfecting this portraiture,…

  • A Genome Every 200 Euros, a Decision Nobody Can Sign

    A Genome Every 200 Euros, a Decision Nobody Can Sign

    The cost of reading a human genome has fallen so far that the accountant, not the geneticist, is now the bottleneck. Illumina’s NovaSeq X platform, deployed in fourteen European reference labs by early 2025, has pushed whole genome sequencing below 200 euros per sample, and Ultima Genomics is testing sub-100-dollar runs. What was once a…