News - For Governments

What this column called a rumour on 27 August has a signature now: Nvidia has confirmed it is buying Hugging Face, the French-founded hub much of Europe's open-source AI runs on, for $12. 93 billion....

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.