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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brussels used Anthropic's Claude on AWS to screen 170,000 EU job applicants - and only reviewed European alternatives after staff objected.
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.
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.
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.
The UK Sovereign AI fund took equity in Olix as it raised 312 million dollars at a 3.3 billion valuation. The DX-1 reaches its first customers in the second half of 2027, two budget cycles away.
ENISA opened consultation on the EUMSS certification scheme on 24 July. It covers one of the five services the law defines, and comments close on 13 September.
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