Pasqal & Alice & Bob: European Breakthroughs in Quantum & AI

Pasqal’s Quantum Processor Reveals Physics Theory Didn’t Predict Quantum computers are often used to reproduce physics we already understand. French quantum company Pasqal has now gone further. In a new study released as a preprint, its 256-qubit processor revealed quantum magnet behaviour that current theory did not predict (Pasqal). What the team did The team […]

ECA at Digital-Gipfel & Strengthening Franco-German Tech Alliances

ECA at the Digital-Gipfel in Berlin On 2 and 3 November, Andrea Vaugan, Co-Founder and Secretary General of the European Champions Alliance, represented ECA at the German Federal Government’s Digital-Gipfel (Digital Summit) in Berlin. Leaders from politics, business and research came together to discuss German and European digital policy, with digital sovereignty at the top […]

EU-Canada Sovereign AI Alliance: Transatlantic Partnership Takes Shape

Canada and Europe: Building Sovereign AI Together Canada was one of the strongest voices at this year’s Digital-Gipfel in Berlin, held on 2 and 3 November under the motto “Shaping AI”. Just days after the EU and Canada launched a new “alliance for the future” in Montreal, the summit showed how quickly the transatlantic partnership […]

HarfangLab Teams Up with Eye Security & Sekoia Launches Self-Hosted SOC

HARFANGLAB TEAMS UP WITH THE DUTCH EYE SECURITY Says Piet Kerkhofs CTO and founder of EYE: “We’re joining forces with HarfangLab, combining their European-built EDR with our Eye Security 24/7 MDR, incident response, with data hosted & processed in the EU. After a period of extensive drilling of multiple European technologies available, our experts fell […]

ECA Newsletter: Space Cyber Threats, EU CRA & Big Tech AI Battles

CYBERSECURITY BINANCE, A CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE PLATFORM, SERIOUSLY HIT The cryptocurrency exchange platform Binance announced on Thursday, October 29, that it had fallen victim to a major hack estimated to cost around $6.3 billion (about €5.6 billion), with half of the funds frozen to prevent a massive theft. Binance posted several conflicting messages on X, first […]