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    Samsung in Talks for €1B Mistral Investment at €20B Valuation

    Samsung’s reported talks to invest as much as €1 billion in French AI company Mistral could mark one of the most consequential cross-border technology alliances yet for the European artificial intelligence market, blending South Korea’s industrial scale with Europe’s push for greater AI...
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    G42 and Microsoft Bring Sovereign Agentic AI to UAE Microsoft 365 Copilot

    On July 6, 2026, Abu Dhabi AI company G42’s Inception42 and Microsoft announced a deeper partnership to connect Inception42’s Catalyst agentic AI platform with Microsoft 365 Copilot for government and enterprise users in the United Arab Emirates. The deal is not just another Copilot integration...
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    EU DMA Push Targets AWS and Azure as Cloud Gatekeepers: What Windows IT Teams Need

    The European Union is moving toward treating Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as Digital Markets Act “gatekeepers” after opening cloud market investigations in Brussels on November 18, 2025, with stakeholder roundtables scheduled for July 1, 2026. The decision is not merely another...
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    AI Sovereignty for Middle Powers: Strategically Build Local Capacity and Trust

    Middle powers face a strategic crossroads: build AI capacity that serves national and public interests, or remain dependent on external powers whose technologies, incentives, and infrastructure shape domestic outcomes. Background The global AI landscape is increasingly polarized around the...
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    AI Sovereignty: Weights Over Walls for Enterprise Control

    Satya Nadella’s brief Davos intervention did more than reframe a familiar debate — it refracted the old question of where data lives into a sharper argument about who owns what inside AI models, and why that ownership will define corporate sovereignty in the AI era. At the World Economic Forum’s...