# 404 Found > AI without the spin. Three times a week. This file provides information about 404 Found to help large language models understand and reference this publication's content. ## Posts - [ABP Held €825 Million in Palantir. Now It Holds None.](https://www.404-found.com/p/abp-held-825-million-in-palantir-now-it-holds-none): The largest pension fund in the Netherlands sold out of America's hottest AI stock. On purpose. - [Europe Told Its Civil Servants to Delete WhatsApp](https://www.404-found.com/p/europe-told-its-civil-servants-to-delete-whatsapp): Six governments are building their own version of an app everyone already has for free. None of them are doing it for the features. - [THE JAILBREAK THAT WASN'T](https://www.404-found.com/p/the-jailbreak-that-wasn-t): Every model could do what got Fable 5 banned for 19 days - [Europe Is Replacing Visa. The Mandate Is Already Law.](https://www.404-found.com/p/europe-is-replacing-visa-the-mandate-is-already-law): How a regulatory requirement for instant bank transfers is quietly dismantling the card network's grip on European commerce - [France Is Moving Its Government Off Windows](https://www.404-found.com/p/france-is-moving-its-government-off-windows): The operating system exit that follows the Teams ban, the Cloud Act calculation, and the pattern nobody is connecting - [49% of Americans Use AI Daily. 16% Think It Will Be Good for Society](https://www.404-found.com/p/49-of-americans-use-ai-daily-16-think-it-will-be-good-for-society): The trust collapse that the industry's own usage numbers are hiding - [The Moment Europe Decided It Could Not Depend on Starlink](https://www.404-found.com/p/the-moment-europe-decided-it-could-not-depend-on-starlink): What a single infrastructure decision during a war revealed about the risk of building on someone else's network - [France Banned Microsoft Teams for Its Civil Servants](https://www.404-found.com/p/france-banned-microsoft-teams-for-its-civil-servants): The decision named a specific law, not a general preference. That distinction matters for every business operating across the Atlantic. - [The Model Benchmarks Are Broken and Everyone Knows It](https://www.404-found.com/p/the-model-benchmarks-are-broken-and-everyone-knows-it): How AI capability claims stopped meaning anything and what that changes for anyone building on top of them - [The AI Race Is Not About Models. It Is About Who Controls the Ground They Run On.](https://www.404-found.com/p/the-ai-race-is-not-about-models-it-is-about-who-controls-the-ground-they-run-on): Two stories this week pointed at the same structural problem from opposite directions. Here is what they add up to. - [The Dutch Central Bank Just Picked a Discount Grocery Chain Over Amazon](https://www.404-found.com/p/the-dutch-central-bank-just-picked-a-discount-grocery-chain-over-amazon): DNB admitted the European alternative is technically worse. They switched anyway. Here is why that decision makes complete sense. - [Karpathy Said the Era of Human Researchers Is Over. Then He Proved It.](https://www.404-found.com/p/karpathy-said-the-era-of-human-researchers-is-over-then-he-proved-it): The man who trained the AI that trained the AI just open-sourced a self-improving research loop. Here is what that actually changes. - [The City Covered the Camera With a Bin Bag and Called It a Solution](https://www.404-found.com/p/the-city-covered-the-camera-with-a-bin-bag-and-called-it-a-solution): What 90,000 AI surveillance cameras in American cities reveal about what happens when deployment speed outpaces the authority to stop it - [The ECB Excluded Amazon and Microsoft from the Digital Euro](https://www.404-found.com/p/the-ecb-excluded-amazon-and-microsoft-from-the-digital-euro): The law they cited, the dependency they identified, and what it means for any business building payment infrastructure for European clients - [Uber Burned Its Entire Annual AI Budget by April](https://www.404-found.com/p/uber-burned-its-entire-annual-ai-budget-by-april): What happened when a company built a leaderboard for token consumption and called it a productivity strategy - [The Week Europe Decided to Replace the Entire American Software Stack](https://www.404-found.com/p/the-week-europe-decided-to-replace-the-entire-american-software-stack): The staff at the European Parliament opened their browsers and found a different search engine. - [Denmark Is Not Banning Microsoft. ](https://www.404-found.com/p/denmark-is-not-banning-microsoft): It Is Doing Something More Interesting. - [Europe Has the Rules. America Has the Chips.](https://www.404-found.com/p/europe-has-the-rules-america-has-the-chips): Why the EU AI Act Regulates What It Cannot Build - [The Replacement Experiment Is Reversing.](https://www.404-found.com/p/the-replacement-experiment-is-reversing): 55% of companies that replaced workers with AI now regret it. The ones seeing returns did something different. - [Europe Took the Engine. Then Built Its Own Car.](https://www.404-found.com/p/europe-took-the-engine-then-built-its-own-car): Building a sovereign cloud from scratch costs tens of billions and takes a decade. Europe found a faster way. - [They Already Had the Data. Europe Just Found Out.](https://www.404-found.com/p/they-already-had-the-data-europe-just-found-out): Microsoft handed Dutch regulators' names, emails, and meeting schedules to Washington. The Netherlands had already signed the exit contract weeks before. - [The Card Nobody Mentions](https://www.404-found.com/p/the-card-nobody-mentions): The Register argued Europe built sovereign clouds and forgot about the processors. The analysis is correct. It never mentions ASML once. - [The Alarm and the Response](https://www.404-found.com/p/the-alarm-and-the-response): Arthur Mensch warned Europe it was becoming dependent on American AI. The infrastructure to prevent it is already being financed. - [The Bill Nobody Voted For](https://www.404-found.com/p/the-bill-nobody-voted-for): How data center demand is transferring costs to communities that never consented to any of it.