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Policy and industry push for Europe to reduce reliance on non-EU cloud, hardware and software providers, driven by concerns over US laws like the Cloud Act.
Fleuret AI raised EUR 4 million in a pre-seed round led by RAISE Ventures to automate penetration testing with AI agents. The money backs a bet that NIS2's demand for demonstrable security will move buyers from periodic audits to tests that rerun whenever their systems change.
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Bull spent 80 million euros doubling its Angers factory's output from six supercomputer racks a month to 12. The larger line lets it build France's 94-rack Alice Recoque and Finland's LUMI-AI at once, something executives said the old factory could not do.
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The Italian collective has hosted activist email and blogs since 2001, and it is now telling the users behind roughly 33,000 mailboxes, sites, lists and blogs to retrieve their data before a US wind-down licence expires on 25 September.
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The Commission says no formal investigation is open, which is precisely the stage at which SAP agreed in July to let customers switch and terminate more easily. Oracle buyers may get exit terms they could not negotiate.
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The AI memory buildout is now setting the price of ordinary servers. OVHcloud is passing on part of a 6x input move, and its purchasing runs month to month while Amazon's does not.
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The Aachen company sells data structuring before the prompt, and claims up to 60% lower token costs. That figure is its own, unaudited, and hedged.
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The Aachen startup pairs a sovereignty pitch with a cost number that buyers should insist on testing. Its whole Series A is a rounding error next to Glean's 2025 valuation.
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