Drooms joins the European Champions Alliance
Building Europe’s digital future on trust, security and sovereignty The European Champions Alliance is delighted to welcome Drooms as its newest member. Led by CEO Alexandre Grellier, Drooms is a leading European technology company providing secure digital solutions for real asset investments and transactions. For more than 25 years, the company has helped organisations streamline […]
EU Tech Roundup: Data Center Labels, AI Governance, & Sovereign Cloud
DATA CENTERS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT Data centers located in the European Union will soon have their environmental label. Similar to the one found on household appliances, it will include grades from A to G; The European Commission adopted on September 21, 2026, a common rating system for data centers in the EU. The European Parliament and […]
European Cyber Security Roundup: Defensive Shifts, Sovereignty, and Emerging Threats
HACK BACK … We reproduce an interesting post by Gérôme Billois, Head of cybersecurity practice at WAVESTONE: A Mandiant researcher created an undercover persona and gained the trust of a member of #TeamPCP. This very active group is behind the #ShaiHulud supply chain campaign that compromised over 1,000 organizations via malicious npm and PyPI packages […]
European Tech Landscape: Mergers, Space AI, and Sovereign Quantum Initiatives
AI COHERE AND ALEPH ALPHA NOW MERGED Five months after the first announcement, Cohere and Aleph Alpha have signed their final merger agreement. A legal step, of course, but also a signal to the market: in artificial intelligence, the race is no longer just about model performance. During its first steps, Aleph Alpha embodied the […]
Digital Sovereignty: Europe Embraces the DRI & Swiss Open-Source Shift
DIGITAL RESILIENCE INDEX: EUROPE IS THE NEW FRONTIER (Tribute to LE JOURNAL DU NET) The Association for Digital Resilience Initiative (aDRI), which launched the Digital Resilience Index (DRI) in 2025, has a lot on its plate. David Djaïz, CEO of consulting firm Ascend Partners and co-founder of the organization with Arno Pons, Secretary General of […]
European Cybersecurity Digest: OT Security, AI Vulnerabilities & CRA Compliance
SECLAB OFFERS A WIDER RANGE OF OT SECURITY FEATURES In the world of industrial systems’s cyber protection, SECLAB makes one’s way Seclab has just been ranked top of the “Progressive Companies” quadrant by MarketsandMarkets™ in its study on the OT cybersecurity market! This quadrant evaluates emerging companies in the sector across two dimensions: product footprint […]
European AI, Cloud and Quantum Champions Accelerate Innovation
AI MISTRAL SETS UP A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE US AI PLATFORMS SUPPLIER CLOUDERA (Tribute to L’USINE DIGITALE for this very comprehensive discussion) Mistral AI is continuing its push into the business world with a new partnership described as “strategic” with Cloudera. The American data platform company will integrate the French firm’s models and tools into […]
European Cybersecurity Champions: Red Alert Labs, Sekoia and HarfangLab
BREAKING NEWS: RED ALERT LABS JOINS FIME GROUP Our pleasure to reproduce the statement by ROLAND ATOUI, RED ALERT LABs’s founder and CEO: I’m pleased to share an important milestone for Red Alert Labs: we have joined Fime, a global provider of consulting, testing and certification services across payments, smart mobility and digital identity. We […]
Bitdefender Joins the European Champions Alliance
We are proud to welcome Bitdefender as a new member of the European Champions Alliance a major milestone for the Alliance and another important step in bringing together Europe’s leading technology companies. Founded in 2001, Bitdefender has grown from a European cybersecurity company into a global technology leader. Today, it protects enterprises, governments and organizations in more […]
AI Lawsuits, Public Procurement Act and Sovereign AI Pact: The ECA Update
MORE US NEWSPAPERS TO SUE AI PLATFORMS FOR AUTHORS’ RIGHTS VIOLATION The Seattle Times and Newsday announced on September 4, 2026, that they are suing OpenAI and Microsoft in a U.S. federal court, accusing the two tech companies of copying the news outlets’ content without permission to train their AI systems. Seattle Times CEO Alan […]