GreenOps Meets AI: Our Focus Group Shifts Towards Sustainable AI Interest in GreenOps is slowing across Europe, but sustainable AI is taking off. Among the companies we work with, it now makes up more than half of the demand. Our GreenOps focus group is therefore aligning its work more closely

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

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

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

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

CYBERSECURITY BINANCE, A CRYPTOCURRENCY EXCHANGE PLATFORM, SERIOUSLY HIT On Thursday, 29 October, the cryptocurrency exchange Binance was hit by a hack worth around $6.3 billion (about €5.6 billion), the largest cryptocurrency theft ever recorded. That is more than four times the $1.5 billion stolen from the exchange Bybit in 2025

Trillion-dollar valuations: the AI scale gap with the US widens The US AI giants are reaching a new financial scale. Anthropic filed for a Nasdaq listing on 26 October, with reports pointing to a mid-November debut at a valuation of $1.5-2 trillion. OpenAI is raising up to $20 billion at

Post-quantum cryptography: ECA’s Cybersecurity Focus Group prepares its crypto-agility roadmap Quantum computers able to break today’s public-key algorithms do not exist yet, but a European timetable has been published: the coordinated implementation roadmap issued on 23 June 2025 by the EU Member States, with the support of the European Commission,