The European Commission's push to reduce dependence on foreign cloud providers may backfire, creating market confusion and failing to deliver the intended sovereignty benefits. The policy risks compli…
A China-led research team has developed a deep-learning system that automatically detects space hurricanes, a phenomenon in Earth's upper atmosphere that can disrupt satellite signals, radar, and radi…
Alibaba Cloud launched a new cloud region in France with two availability zones in Paris, expanding its global footprint to 105 availability zones across 32 regions. The region is designed to comply w…
Hong Kong has launched a two-month public consultation on its first five-year plan to align with Beijing's 2026-2030 blueprint, focusing on high-quality development, technological self-reliance, and e…
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lashed out at NATO allies on Thursday, announcing a six-month Pentagon review of American forces in Europe that will depend on how fast they take responsibility for thei…
Alibaba Cloud launched its first data centres in France on Wednesday, expanding its European footprint amid growing demand for data sovereignty. The move responds to increased customer demand and alig…
Tyler Cowen and Alexander Tabarrok published a Marginal Revolution post on June 16, 2026, warning that regional AI champions like France's Mistral could create political leverage and cross-border depe…
Tyler Cowen warns that Europe's AI nationalism could lead to intra-European dependencies, as France's Mistral AI may dominate the EU market, giving France and Mistral leverage over other European coun…
Cloudflare's Radar tool reports that agentic AI bots now generate 57.4% of global web requests, surpassing human traffic for the first time. CEO Matthew Prince noted the milestone arrived years earlie…
French President Emmanuel Macron, with less than a year left in office, is betting on artificial intelligence to cement his legacy, leveraging France's nuclear energy to attract AI data centers and se…
A new scenario warns that Europe is on track to lose its ability to shape its own future due to misjudging the speed and scale of AI, leading to economic and political sidelining by 2031. The report d…
The US government has ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable and Mythos AI models for foreign nationals, including employees, drawing a line that treats the technology as too dangerous for n…
European enterprises are increasingly adopting AI agents, but their success depends on robust regional cloud infrastructure to meet data sovereignty and latency requirements. The New Stack reports tha…
Google expanded Gemini in Chrome to Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa, making the AI browser feature available in nearly every global region except Europe. The tool offers a personalized brow…
Americans and Chinese both fear artificial intelligence as a tool for information warfare, according to a new assessment. Industrialized nations including the United States, China, Europe, Russia, Jap…
AirTrunk, an Australian data center operator, is committing $30 billion to build 5 gigawatts of AI data center capacity in India, marking one of the largest single regional infrastructure investments …
The EDIH Summit 2026 will convene the European Digital Innovation Hubs network, EU institutions, Member States, and AI infrastructure providers on 9-10 June 2026 to assess the operational effectivenes…
Europe's heavy focus on AI regulation and governance frameworks has failed to boost its competitiveness in the technology sector, according to a new commentary. The analysis argues that the continent …
Superintelligence developed by US companies and run on US data centers will massively boost US military and economic power, potentially leaving middle powers like the UK, Europe, Japan, South Korea, a…