On June 10, 2025, Microsoft France's legal director, Anton Carniaux, testified before the French Senate inquiry commission on public procurement and digital sovereignty. When asked if he could guarantee that French citizens' data stored in Microsoft's EU data centers would not be accessed by...
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The tower of artificial intelligence, it seems, may have a very American lock on the front door. This, at least, was the sobering consensus coming out of a recent summit called by Germany’s national competition regulator, the Bundeskartellamt, where a cross-section of the European AI ecosystem...
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