#Germany & AI
Posts tagged #Germany & AI – 31 posts.
- AI-Economy
Aleph Alpha merges with Cohere – Heidelberg only research now
The Canadian AI provider Cohere and the Heidelberg-based company Aleph Alpha signed a binding merger agreement on September 16, 2026. The new company will operate worldwide under the name Cohere…
- AI in Practice
DeepL Voice now translates meetings in your own voice
The Cologne language service DeepL expands its meeting translation DeepL Voice: instead of a synthetic voice, participants will now hear the real tone, speaking pace, and individual voice of the…
- Security
Consumer advice center warns of deceptively real AI job ads
Three German consumer protection agencies have been warning since mid-September 2026, almost simultaneously, about fake job advertisements created with artificial intelligence that are hardly…
- Security
FBI warns of hacker group Waterplum: disguise as AI company
The security authorities from the USA, Japan, Australia, and Germany jointly warn about the North Korean hacker group Waterplum, which poses as an AI company during job interviews. According to the…
- AI-Economy
UAE invest 40 billion euros in German AI data centers
The United Arab Emirates pledge Germany new investments of 40 billion euros during the state visit of President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed on September 10 and 11, 2026. The money is to flow into data…
- AI-Economy
Bitkom: 57 percent of German companies are now using AI
The digital association Bitkom reports a majority for the first time: 57 percent of German companies with 20 or more employees are using artificial intelligence according to their own statements…
- AI-Policy
Google shows AI answers less frequently in elections
The organization AlgorithmWatch has, for the first time, systematically examined how Google deploys its AI overviews around Germany's three state elections. Based on 4,480 search queries, the study…
- AI-Economy
IFA Berlin: China presents almost every second exhibitor
At this year's IFA technology fair in Berlin, around 931 of the approximately 1,900 exhibitors come from China – almost every second booth. Last year, there were still around 700. The strongest…
- Legal
BGH hears photographer lawsuit against AI dataset LAION
The Federal Court of Justice heard for the first time on Thursday whether AI training datasets may contain copyrighted photos without the permission of the copyright holders. The professional…
- Security
AISI Germany: Institute examines the safety of AI models
Germany has launched a new authority for the safety of Artificial Intelligence with AISI Deutschland. The institute began its work on August 31, 2026, in Berlin and consolidates the competencies of…
- AI-Economy
Schwarz Group Builds €5.6 Billion AI Data Center Near Rostock
Retail group Schwarz is building an AI data center worth up to €5.6 billion in Dummerstorf near Rostock. By 2033, the site is set to reach 240 megawatts of connected capacity, with a later expansion…
- Security
Meta closes recording light gap of its AI glasses again
Meta now allows the camera of its AI glasses to automatically stop when someone covers the recording light during an ongoing recording. AR Vice President Alex Himel announced the software update on…
- AI-Policy
Wildberger lowers Germany's AI target to third place
Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger formulated a new interim goal for German AI policy on August 25, 2026, during the cabinet retreat of the federal government in Neuhardenberg: third or fourth place…
- AI-Policy
Federal Government Eases Reporting Obligations for Data Centers
Germany's state data center register remains full of gaps: more than half of the reporting operators have not submitted consumption data for 2025. At the same time, the federal government wants to…
- AI-Policy
Germany brings AI law for asylum procedures to Bundestag
The Federal Cabinet approved the draft for an AI Migration Management Act at the end of July, which allows the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) and the immigration authorities to use…
- Research
Bremen hosts IJCAI-ECAI: first time in Germany in 43 years
Bremen will host the IJCAI-ECAI from August 15 to 21, 2026, one of the oldest and most significant AI conferences. After the last German edition in 1983 in Karlsruhe, around 4,000 researchers from…
- AI-Economy
OpenAI Plans Second Office in Berlin – Data Center in Discussion
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a Handelsblatt interview on August 14, 2026, a second German office in Berlin, in addition to the existing location in Munich. Germany ranks among the three largest…
- Security
LiteLLM Leak: Hudson Rock Finds 153-Gigabyte Archive of Credentials
The security firm Hudson Rock has evaluated and released an archive of stolen credentials from the LiteLLM attack of March 2026. The 153-gigabyte collection contains 433,909 files, which analysts…
- Security
LiteLLM attack hits over 2500 companies worldwide
A March 2026 attack on the open AI gateway LiteLLM has affected significantly more companies than previously known. The security firm CloudSEK now puts the number of affected companies at over 2500…
- AI-Economy
Uniper transforms ten power plants into AI data centers
The energy company Uniper is building data centers at its own power plant locations, positioning itself as an infrastructure provider for the AI economy. The company has identified more than ten…
- AI-Economy
Germany raises AI Gigafactory funding to one billion euros
The federal government is increasing its funding commitment for a German AI gigafactory by around 200 million to one billion euros. This was announced by the Federal Ministry of Research according to…
- AI-Economy
The 10 Most Valuable AI Companies from Germany
Germany was long seen as a straggler in the global AI race – the result of a chain of neglected compute infrastructure, federal friction and regulation ahead of enabling conditions. In 2026 the…
- Society
Berlin Police Launches AI Surveillance at Kottbusser Tor
The Berlin police will launch their first AI-supported behavior recognition system in public spaces at Kottbusser Tor in August 2026. Cameras automatically analyze movement patterns of passersby and…
- Legal
GEMA wins Munich ruling: licensing duty for Suno
The Munich District Court I fully upheld the collecting society GEMA on Friday, July 31, 2026, in the legal dispute against music AI provider Suno. The 42nd Civil Chamber ruled that both training and…
- AI-Economy
SAP completes Prior Labs acquisition: 1 billion euros for AI lab
The software company SAP has completed the acquisition of Freiburg-based AI startup Prior Labs. According to its own statements, the company is investing more than one billion euros over four years…
- Legal
Google: Media supervision classifies AI search as content provider
The Commission for Licensing and Supervision of the State Media Authorities (ZAK) issued decisions against Google and Perplexity for the first time on July 14, 2026, classifying their AI search…
- Research
Soofi S: German Consortium Releases Open AI Model
A German research consortium has released Soofi S, an open language model trained specifically for German and English. According to its developers, the 31.6-billion-parameter model surpasses the open…
- Legal
Google: Court holds company liable for AI errors
Two German courts have recently decided that companies must take responsibility for the errors of their AI systems. The Munich District Court ordered Google to stop its AI summary falsely accusing a…
- Legal
GEMA Wins Music Lawsuit Against Suno in Munich Court
In July 2026, two court decisions are due that could prove groundbreaking for how AI music generators are allowed to handle copyrighted material. In Munich, the regional court is set to rule on the…
- AI
Germany's biggest AI missteps: asleep and scattered
Germany has not failed at a single point in artificial intelligence – it has become entangled over the years in a chain of decisions, the consequences of which are now, in mid-2026, clearly visible…
- AI
GITEX AI Europe in Berlin Ends After Just Two Editions
The second edition of GITEX AI Europe in Berlin was apparently also the last. According to the Berliner Morgenpost, organizer Kaoun International has terminated its contract with Messe Berlin …
