Digital Sovereignty
Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm Back the EU AI Gigafactories
The Commission signed letters of intent with Nvidia, AMD, and Qualcomm for its 30 billion euro AI Gigafactories program. The EU owns the buildings, not the chips.
Digital Sovereignty
Digital Sovereignty
ASML and CMA CGM Now Fund Europe's AI Compute
Mistral launched EU/US region-pinned inference and an SLA-backed Priority Tier as ASML, CMA CGM, Amadeus and Caisse des Depots signed multi-year deals toward 1 GW of European AI capacity by 2030.
Digital Sovereignty
Microsoft's India Hub Outpaces Its EU Sovereignty Push
Microsoft's Hyderabad Azure region launched complete on 6 August 2026: zero-water cooling, four live customers, $20.5bn committed. Its EU sovereignty pledges took three years and still fall short, say critics.
Digital Sovereignty
NATO and an AI Firm Join the EU's CVE Root
On 6 August ENISA onboarded NATO's NCIA and AI-security firm AISLE as CVE Numbering Authorities, taking its CVE Root to 20 - eight of them moved off the US-run MITRE Root.
Digital Sovereignty
Fraunhofer and SAP Publish an Exit From Lock-In
On August 3, 2026, Fraunhofer and SAP published ApeiroRA, an open reference architecture for moving workloads between data center and edge without hyperscaler lock-in, feeding into the NeoNephos Foundation.
Digital Sovereignty
EuroHPC Opens Four Quantum Machines to Free Pilots
EuroHPC has opened free pilot access to four European quantum computers in Germany, France, Poland and Czechia, with monthly application cutoffs running through December 2026.
Digital Sovereignty
EU Sovereign Satellite Deal Signals Procurement Shift
On Aug 7, 2026 the European Commission and SpaceRISE signed IRIS2's implementation deal: 348 satellites, first launches in 2029, and a security-driven expansion.
Digital Sovereignty
Atos Sets a New Bar for Sovereign Cloud Claims
Atos launched an EU-designed, EU-operated sovereign cloud platform on 23 July 2026, giving owners a real EU-native benchmark against hyperscaler sovereignty claims.
Digital Sovereignty
The Commission Hired US AI to Vet Its Own Staff
Brussels used Anthropic's Claude on AWS to screen 170,000 EU job applicants - and only reviewed European alternatives after staff objected.
Digital Sovereignty
The UK Just Bet State Money Against HBM
OLIX raised $312M at a $3.3B valuation with the UK's own Sovereign AI fund investing. The real story is not the round size - it is a state bet against the HBM supply chain.
Digital Sovereignty
Palantir's Sovereignty Pitch Is 19 Percent Foreign
Palantir made AI Sovereignty the organising idea of its Q2 investor deck. Subtract the disclosed US figures from the disclosed global ones and its entire commercial book outside America comes to about 181 million dollars.
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Your UK iCloud Backup Lost Its Encryption in 2025
Apple has gone back to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over a second UK backdoor order. Advanced Data Protection has already been off in Britain since February 2025, and the new notice was scoped to survive the objection that killed the first one.
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