The last two weeks in European digital sovereignty
It's time to pick up the smartphone
(Paying users) Your phone is Europe's biggest digital sovereignty problem: fewer than a million of the EU's 350 to 400 million smartphones are European-made. A five-part deep
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▸ Standards bodies advance free digital identity wallet infrastructure
▸ EU proposes permanent Northern Partnership with Iceland, Norway and Greenland
▸ Palantir CEO criticises France’s digital sovereignty policy
▸ Nine CEE governments sign Prague AI declaration
▸ UK startup AI Score raises $5.4M for AI governance platform
▸ Hungary clears path to rejoin Horizon Europe
▸ Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.93bn
▸ Cyprus Computer Society proposes 33 recommendations for AI strategy
▸ EU overhauls customs rules to target non-EU platforms
▸ EU revises Chips Act to focus on realistic semiconductor goals
▸ US sanctions Italian digital collective Autistici/Inventati
▸ Russia advances legal framework for 'sovereign AI' exports
▸ Swiss startup xorlab raises €5M for sovereign email security
▸ Flower Labs unveils Endeavor 1.0 as sovereign AI alternative
▸ U.S. states centralise digital identity platforms amid AI fraud risks
▸ Nvidia licenses NVLink and NVHBM IP to rivals including MediaTek and Amazon
▸ EU designates ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms
▸ EuroHPC JU awards LUMI-AI supercomputer contract to Bull
▸ Germany funds Flatpak development with €508,640
▸ Consortium completes 42-month Horizon Europe OpenWebSearch.EU project
▸ ECB says digital euro will offer maximum privacy for offline transactions
▸ Europe's biggest digital sovereignty problem is in your pocket
▸ Vendors integrate post-quantum cryptography into digital identity tools
▸ Legal Data Space joins Gaia-X to strengthen data infrastructure
▸ Please stop using Amazon and Google to run your smart home
▸ Ten open source maintainers join Sovereign Tech Standards network
▸ NIST and European telcos advance identity framework for agentic AI
▸ EU accelerates Digital Services Act enforcement on Meta over child safety
▸ Slovakia proposes age checks for social platforms using biometric tools
▸ Poland formally requests EU fine for Meta over scam Facebook ads
▸ Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9bn
▸ PLD Space secures €158.9 million ESA award for reusable launcher
▸ Poland reports widespread GPS disruptions across sectors
▸ ECB advances Pontes and Appia projects for tokenised asset market
▸ EU backs gaming sector with digital support measures
▸ Ireland proposes €1 billion fund-of-funds for startups
▸ French SpaceTech startup ArcSpace raises over €2 million for satellite repair tech
▸ Draghi and Collison launch Rhine Group to boost Europe’s competitiveness
▸ Ireland’s medieval law blocks Big Tech class actions in Europe
▸ EuroHPC launches six new quantum technology calls
▸ NEURA Robotics acquires Adlatus Robotics to boost cleaning robot AI
▸ Greater Manchester rejects Palantir health data platform
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