Σάββατο 12 Σεπτεμβρίου 2026
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UniCredit’s 49.65% Awaits ECB Approval
UniCredit has lined up enough Commerzbank shares to command 49.65% of voting rights, but the transfer still needs regulatory clearance. Berlin’s 12% stake gives it influence over jobs, lending and headquarters commitments—not a veto—leaving the ECB’s decision pivotal to whether the Italian bank gains de facto control.
Lean Accepts Claude’s 10.5-Million-Line Fermat Proof
Anthropic’s agents translated the established proof into a complete formal artifact in eleven days, and Kevin Buzzard independently confirmed that it compiles. The repository is open and checkable, but the campaign behind it is not reproducible: Anthropic withheld its internal model, orchestration details and compute costs, while building on Mathlib and years of human formalization work.
Usmanov Dispute Pushes EU Blacklist to Deadline
The EU’s sanctions list expires Tuesday after ambassadors failed three times to agree on its renewal. France has reportedly joined Slovakia in seeking Alisher Usmanov’s removal, turning one oligarch’s listing into a test of unanimity—and risking an untested legal gap between the bloc’s expiring sanctions decision and the regulation enforcing its asset freezes.
Zagreb’s driverless robotaxi isn’t on Uber
Pony.ai and Verne are carrying invited passengers without an onboard safety operator along a restricted Zagreb airport corridor. It is a genuine European milestone, but not a bookable taxi service: permit conditions, driverless mileage and remote-intervention procedures remain undisclosed, leaving the public without the evidence needed to assess safety.
Czech taxpayers front Agrofert’s €3.18m gap
Brussels has paused reimbursement for a narrow tranche of Agrofert-linked spending, not Czechia’s wider EU funding. Prague’s agricultural agency is still paying the conglomerate from public money, leaving the state exposed if the Commission permanently rejects the claims over Prime Minister Andrej Babiš’s potential conflict of interest.