Satellite data in Europe is getting a cloud of its own, built with OVHcloud and CGI to cut reliance on US providers for sensitive data. On chips, the gap runs the other way: Europe holds the key technology and struggles to attract the factories that use it.
EU governments weighed changes that critics say would give AI companies easy access to Europeans' personal data, while regulators kept enforcing the GDPR and turned their attention to camera glasses. At the same time, Europe's fastest supercomputer took delivery of home-grown processors and fresh money flowed into sovereign chips, cloud and defence technology.
Brussels is investigating whether OpenAI sat on a security incident it never formally reported, less than two weeks after a similar disclosure only reached the public because a journalist found it first. Antwerp's TUSK IC turned a quieter kind of European infrastructure win, satellite chips, into mass-production funding, while Portugal put an official state service inside WhatsApp the same week.