Microsoft
Microsoft promises HCI on EU clouds as it settles complaint – but AWS, Google, other critics lash out
"CISPE has given Microsoft the benefit of the doubt"
AI
Europe’s AI Act demands extensive "logs" - targets biometrics, bias, black boxes
Emotion recognition banned in workplaces, classrooms.
Europe
European cybersecurity labels are coming. Who's signed up?
Scheme will pave the way for upcoming certification schemes: EUCS on cloud services and EU5G on 5G security
NVIDIA
NVIDIA sees a sovereign AI infrastructure race – as Europe plans 24,000-chip supercomputer
"National investment in compute capacity is a new economic imperative... countries are awakening to the need to invest in sovereign AI infrastructure" says Jensen Huang
AI
EU investors including Bosch, SAP pump $500 million into "sovereign" AI firm Aleph Alpha
The investment comes as a Google DeepMind paper poured some cold water on the AI hype, finding "various failure modes of transformers and degradation of their generalization for even simple extrapolation tasks" if these are out of its training data domain.
AWS
AWS promises European sovereign cloud – doesn’t say when, skimps on details
Announcement leaves AWS lagging Azure and OCI - with Oracle already running sovereign infrastructure in Frankfurt and Madrid with “no backbone network connection to other cloud regions”
Oracle
Oracle's new "sovereign" European cloud region is Schrems II friendly; comes amid SaaS data pressure
"No backbone network connection to Oracle's other cloud regions” says the company, with Microsoft also promising an EU "data boundary"
Zoom
Zoom's new privacy tools offer European data sovereignty-lite
Careful now, read the small print: Account, diagnostic data will stay in the US and Zoom can't promise calls and recordings won't pass through data centres you opted out of...
Enterprise IT
EU Chips Act disappoints, with doubts over sources of €43 billion funding
Proposals only allocate €11bn in EU funds but open door to more state aid, as EU Chips Act aims to secure 20% of semiconductor production in the bloc by 2030.
Cybersecurity
EU reveals plans for Joint Cyber Unit, Rapid Reaction teams - very, very slowly.
European Joint Cyber Unit: thought up in 2017, coming in... 2023.
Cloud
Europe laments puny cloud presence, to crack down on foreign subsidies, boost indigenous chip capabilities.
Edge computing is place where EU could play strongly, report claims.