Mistral made its EU-only inference generally available on 11 August, the same day it asked five companies to prepay for a gigawatt of compute that does not exist yet. The two offers carry very different risk.
Cursor's new Origin git-hosting platform turned on automatically for every paid user on 17 August 2026 - the same day GitHub had a major global outage.
Binance says it left Russia in 2023. Documents show its compliance team answered Russian police data requests about an EU resident a year later - and no regulator has opened a file on it.
Germany is spending 79.3 million euros to hit a January 2027 EUDI Wallet launch, and reviewers call the result a Minimalkonstrukt. If the best-funded member state ships this thin, the EU's sovereign identity layer arrives fragmented, not unified.
On July 16, Airbus picked Scaleway as its sovereign cloud provider after scoring bids on protection from foreign extraterritorial law - yet Skywise, its own flagship aviation data platform, stays on AWS, the exact cloud the tender says needs shielding from.
A federally funded pilot proved openDesk works as a crisis-resilient, cross-cloud emergency workplace - but Germany's own federal government has only 8,756 production licences of the software it just certified.
France's DINUM ordered every ministry to plan a Windows-to-Linux exit for up to 2.5 million workstations by autumn 2026. Four months on, DINUM's own in-house pilot, the one meant to prove the model works, has reached 70 production-ready machines.
Dublin scrapped a EUR750m-1bn Microsoft framework after an unnamed party raised concerns. The Dail read it as a sovereignty debate. The trigger looks like a bid challenge instead.
Five Italian banks refinanced Polo Strategico Nazionale for EUR231 million on August 6, even though the sovereign cloud operator lost EUR11.4 million in 2024.
Poland will score every public IT purchase above roughly EUR 1.15 million on supplier jurisdiction and lock-in risk from 2026, a standing procurement gate built to close a digital trade deficit above 60 billion zloty a year.
OVHcloud and Scaleway, not AWS or Azure, run the digital euro's payment backbone by procurement rule. A July parliamentary vote just gave that rule a legislative timeline.
France's Health Data Hub is leaving Microsoft Azure for a SecNumCloud-certified sovereign cloud by end of 2026, as a decree widens the mandate and five health-tech firms push back.
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