Assessing Tech Dependencies: AI Act Delays, Mistral AI’s Sovereignty Plea, and Europe’s €5B Scaleup Fund
THE OBSERVATORY OF DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY IS LAUNCHING A NATIONAL SURVEY TO ASSESS FRENCH TECHNOLOGICAL DEPENDENCIES ON NON-EUROPEAN SOLUTIONS. AND DIGITAL RESILIENCE INDEX RAMPS UP; The Observatory has launched a national assessment with the private sector. Results are intended to identify these dependencies and propose French and European alternatives. In parallel? Digital New Deal Foundation, the […]
CISA Credentials Exposed, Orange Cyberdefense Expands to Spain, and Verizon’s Grim Cyber Warning
ORANGE CYBERDEFENSE OPENS IN SPAIN The specialized branch will rely on the commercial implantation of MAS Orange, the Spanish TELCO subsidiary of ORANGE Group. In order to be as close as possible to the cybersecurity needs of the companies shaping the Spanish territory, the Orange Cyberdefense teams will initially be located in Madrid and Barcelona, […]
The Real Cost of AI, ChapsVision’s Intelligence Victory, and Europe’s €1.5B Quantum Surge
AI MISTRAL AI DEVELOPS INDUSTRIAL AI Mistral AI continues its strategy of vertical integration. After acquiring the start-up Koyeb last February, the company announced on May 19, 2026, that it had acquired Emmi AI, an Austrian start-up specializing in ‘Physics AI’, the application of AI models to physical simulation and industrial engineering. Founded in Linz […]
Bridging Europe’s Cybersecurity Scale-Up Gap: Insights from Rome to Vienna
HARFANGLAB IN ROME Alongside a delegation of French cybersecurity and defense companies, Anna Gamba and David Dufourcq have represented HarfangLab at Palazzo Farnese, the French Embassy in Rome, for a day of high-level conversations with Italian public and private sector stakeholders, on May 19, 2026. “What we’re bringing to the table: EDR first ANSSI-qualified EDR […]
Welcoming Exorde Labs to the European Champions Alliance
Europe’s ability to understand and navigate the global digital landscape has never been more strategic. From cybersecurity and financial markets to disinformation and democratic resilience, social media intelligence has become a critical capability for governments, institutions, and organisations worldwide. Yet despite the growing importance of these technologies, Europe still depends heavily on non-European platforms and […]
Encryption Backdoors in France and the European Fight Against Addictive Algorithms
BACKDOORS AGAIN ? The French Parliament is preparing to examine several texts related to cybersecurity. On this occasion, the parliamentary delegation on intelligence publicly assumes a strong position on encrypted messaging. It considers a targeted access to secure communication services to be “necessary and legitimate.” The delegation considers that a mechanism allowing “targeted access to […]
The AI-Cyber Arms Race: Claude Mythos, Autonomous Exploits, and the Mistral AI Supply Chain Incident
AI AND CYBER: THE DEBATE GETS HOTTER Two important Agencies, the German BSI and CAMPUS CYBER in France, have recently alerted on the impact of AI on cyber defenses. Referring to the capacity of some AI models as CLAUDE MYTHOS or CHAT GPT 5, the BSI insists on the time lapse between the discovery of […]
Quantum Industrialization, AI Hardware Challengers, and Embedded Space Security
QUANTUM COMPUTING QUANDELA PARTNERS WITH SAFRAN The French quantum dynamic start up QUANDELA is partnering with SAFRAN to develop algorithms for modeling airflow in aircraft engines. The result will be faster engine development cycles and less reliance on physical testing. According to Valerian Giesz, CEO of QUANDELA, an objective is to try to ensure that […]
Mapping Europe’s Cybersecurity Ecosystem: From Fragmentation to Digital Sovereignty
Mapping Europe’s Cybersecurity Ecosystem: Building the Foundations of Digital Sovereignty In an interview with CyberSecTV.eu, Dominique Tessier, Co-Founder and Head of the Cybersecurity Focus Group at the European Champions Alliance (ECA), discusses one of Europe’s most ambitious initiatives in the field of cybersecurity: the European Cybersecurity Mapping. A fragmented but highly dynamic ecosystem Europe’s cybersecurity […]
Scaling European Cybersecurity: How Corma Leveraged the INCYBER Forum 2026 Ecosystem
Why Ecosystem Access Matters for European Cybersecurity Start-ups: Corma’s Experience at INCYBER Forum 2026 “The problems we are facing are not German, nor French, nor national. But European.” This is how Nikolai David Fromm, Co-Founder and COO of Corma, describes one of the biggest challenges facing European cybersecurity companies today: fragmentation. To watch the video […]