Digital Sovereignty
Your AI Vendor Can Lie About Which Model Answered You
A US advisory and Anthropic's own report show an AI vendor secretly routed queries to a rival's model. The disclosure gap in EU rules leaves buyers guessing.
Digital Sovereignty
Digital Sovereignty
Nvidia and Palantir Call It Sovereign, Germany Already Said No
Nvidia and Palantir launched a sovereign AI stack for supply chains on September 10. Germany's own military rejected Palantir for the exact dependency this stack does not remove.
Digital Sovereignty
Germany's New Quantum Computer Needs No Deep Freeze
North Rhine-Westphalia inaugurated JION, a trapped-ion quantum computer built by university spinout eleQtron - one of three different qubit technologies the state is funding at once.
Digital Sovereignty
50 Satellites, Built in Abu Dhabi, Will Watch Europe
Royal Group of Abu Dhabi is funding a $1 billion earth-observation constellation for French and European government use. Orbitworks calls it sovereign - the UAE's.
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China Puts a Number on Chip Independence
China's new five-year plan targets 9,800 exaflops of AI compute by 2030 and 3.8 trillion yuan in investment, built around Huawei's own chip roadmap rather than Nvidia's.
Digital Sovereignty
Norway Just Put Europe in Orbit Without SpaceX
Isar Aerospace reached orbit from Andoya, Norway on September 5, 2026, becoming the first European commercial company to deliver satellites to orbit, on its second flight.
Digital Sovereignty
Europe's Chip Spy Never Had to Hack Anything
Belgian prosecutors say a Belgan director fed gallium nitride trade secrets to GaNkool, a Chinese rival he ran on the side. No hack was involved.
Digital Sovereignty
Europe's Record AI Seed Round Just Lost Its Last Scientist
H Company raised Europe's largest AI seed round in 2024 to keep talent out of US hands. Its CTO just left for Microsoft, the fourth of five founders to go.
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Saudi Sovereign AI Runs on Borrowed Chinese Weights
HUMAIN's humain-m3, unveiled at LEAP Riyadh, is a 428-billion-parameter model fine-tuned on Arabic data but built on China's MiniMax-M3 base under a MiniMax license. What that means for how any government should define AI sovereignty.
Digital Sovereignty
France Won't Let OpenAI Scan Its Own Weaknesses
France is hiring AI tools to hunt for flaws in its own government systems after a tax-agency breach, and explicitly excluding OpenAI from that specific job.
Digital Sovereignty
A German Rocket Reached Orbit. The Real Story Was the Funding.
Isar Aerospace put the first rocket into orbit from Western European soil. Its own funding round three months earlier already showed what sovereign launch means.
Digital Sovereignty
EU Cloud Sovereignty Law Splits Defence Contractors
Europe's defence establishment is pushing back on the European Commission's Cloud and AI Development Act, warning a fast retreat from AWS, Azure and Google Cloud creates security gaps.
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