Amazon put an email address in its legal notice that did not work, and a Berlin court has ruled that this violates Germany's Digital Services Act: consumers must be able to reach a company directly and efficiently, not only through a logged-in account. Nvidia, meanwhile, is 300 billion dollars short of a 6 trillion dollar valuation, the same sum ASML needs to reach its first trillion.
The European Commission plans to bring AWS and Azure under the Digital Markets Act, while a European satellite-data cloud and a Dutch open source agreement show what alternatives can look like. Data protection gained both stricter enforcement guidance and an economic argument, consumer authorities turned to in-game currencies and scams, and Europe's innovation strength still outruns its venture capital.
The European Commission plans to designate Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act in November. Brussels has picked the right layer to regulate. In the Netherlands, government and the education sector signed up to more open source, and France's CNIL set out when breach victims can claim damages.