Podcast: AI Agents and Europe's Market Gap
In the latest episode of the Trending Topics podcast, Jakob Steinschaden (co-founder of Trending Topics and newsrooms.ai) and Matteo Rosoli (CTO of newsrooms.ai) discuss the rapid evolution of AI agents — and why Europe urgently needs its own solutions.
OpenClaw: Powerful Tool, Open Flanks
OpenClaw has taken the open-source world by storm with over 316,000 GitHub stars. The tool can control computers, manage calendars, send emails, and execute shell commands. But the security picture is concerning: researchers found more than 40,000 unprotected instances on the public internet, many without authentication. Up to 20% of community plugins on ClawHub contain malicious code.
For newsrooms.ai, the takeaway is clear: businesses need AI tools that are not only powerful but also secure and GDPR-compliant.
Chinese Open-Source Models Are Overtaking the West
The discussion highlights a troubling trend: Chinese open-source models like Kimi 2.5 are now matching the performance of Western flagship models — at a fraction of the cost. Peter Steinberger's move from OpenClaw to OpenAI underscores the ongoing market consolidation.
Europe's AI Gap
Europe has the talent (325,000 AI professionals), the users (133 million monthly active LLM users), and the regulation (GDPR, EU AI Act). What it lacks are the products.
newsrooms.ai fills this gap in the content space: an AI content platform hosted exclusively in the EU, one that never uses data for training and delivers the highest language quality in each customer's brand voice.
In parallel, the team behind newsrooms.ai is building eustella — the first European personal AI assistant. Private, mobile-first, open source, built in Vienna.
The Vision: European AI Sovereignty
"Europe does not need a ChatGPT clone. We need AI products that build European values into their architecture from day one," says Matteo Rosoli. "At newsrooms.ai, we do that for professional communications. With eustella, we do it for the personal AI assistant."