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.
A single US mega-deal this week dwarfed Europe's largest AI funding round, sharpening warnings that the continent risks falling behind without serious money for compute. At the same time Brussels handed out its own sovereign cloud contract, moved AI and child-safety rules from drafting into enforcement, and heard a fresh case that strong privacy law is a competitive asset rather than a cost.
A Paris startup just landed a real contract inside the European Commission's sovereign cloud framework: a developer portal for up to 5,000 users, inside a six-year, 180 million euro deal spread across four providers. In Germany, meanwhile, a court just told Meta that not knowing about a scam ad is no longer an excuse.