The EU's General Court told Opera that Microsoft Edge isn't a gatekeeper on the same day the Commission opened a licensing probe into Oracle's cloud business, a split verdict that says more about where Brussels sees real market power than any single ruling could. Meanwhile a German spacetech raise shows sovereign infrastructure money moving at last, not just sovereign-AI branding.
The day Brussels' Digital Omnibus sends its rewrite of what counts as personal data into contested interinstitutional negotiation, Austria's Supreme Court just enforced the GDPR principle at stake against a credit agency that broke it. Meanwhile two European firms show what closing the sovereignty gap by building, rather than legislating, actually looks like.
The European Commission has designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, the first time an AI chatbot has been slotted into that legal box, alongside Reddit and Roblox as very large online platforms. All three now have a four-month window, running out around January 2027, to show they can contain systemic risk, the same day the Netherlands published exactly the kind of infrastructure alternative that rulebook was always meant to protect.