Von der Leyen launches “AI First” at Italian Tech Week: three obstacles to overcome and a €2 billion startup lost along the way. Turin, October 3, 2025. Before thousands of entrepreneurs and investors at the OGR, Ursula von der Leyen launched her vision: “AI First.” And to explain the urgency of this revolution, the President of the European Commission told a story that still stings: that of the Italian startup Kong , which was forced to cross the Atlantic to find someone who believed in it. The startup that Europe let slip away It all began with two young men from Milan,

Data centers in space, lunar landers, Martian missions: the future designed by Bezos in Turin. But the real revelation is the anecdote about his grandfather that reveals his human profile. This year, Turin was once again the European capital of innovation for three days, with Italian Tech Week bringing together global icons from the tech scene and beyond. But the undisputed star? Jeff Bezos, who, between a vision of the future of AI and a moon landing, also gave the audience an unexpected life lesson. In the coming decades, millions of people will live in space. This isn’t the plot of a

From learning machines to self-improving ones: the evolutionary leap that is rewriting the code of the future As you read this article, most likely, in a data center around the world, a machine is writing code more efficiently than a senior engineer. This isn’t science fiction: it’s the reality of July 2025, where AI programs itself, marking a turning point for the future of programmers. The question is no longer if a machine will surpass us in intelligence, but when it will happen. According to Mark Zuckerberg, this moment could arrive within 12-18 months, with most code generated by artificial intelligence¹. An

Whoever has as a mission, to deal with computer security and therefore also with cryptography, must necessarily pass through the figures of two giants of the last century. We are talking about: Alan Turing and Claude Elwood Shannon. The first, formalized the concept of algorithm. Created a machine with a logical structure capable of executing any algorithm (The universal computer); the second gave us a clear image of the concept of information together with other theories that then became the cornerstones in the transmission of information. During the Second World War, the military invested heavily in the study of cryptography. Both Turing