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Microsoft transmitted the unredacted names of Dutch civil servants enforcing the Digital Services Act to a US House of Representatives committee investigating 'tech censorship'.

The story landed during ongoing debates over the Solvinity-DigiD acquisition and the Belastingdienst's transition to Microsoft.

builtineu.eu/news/microsoft-shared-dutch-regulator-names-us-house-committee

#DigitalSovereignty #DSA #CloudAct #EUTech #Netherlands

Built In EU May 14

Europe's 15 Largest Private AI Companies, Ranked 🇪🇺

🔹 Combined Valuation: $73.2 billion
🔹 OpenAI Alone: $852 billion
OpenAI is almost 12x the size of the entire European top 15.

🏆 The Top 3:
🇩🇪 Helsing | $14.1B (Defence AI)
🇫🇷 @MistralAI | $13.7B (Foundation models)
🇬🇧 Wayve | $8.6B (Autonomous driving)

📥 Available for CSV/JSON download (CC BY 4.0).

🔗 Read the full list here: https://builtineu.eu/blog/european-ai-companies-2026

#EuropeanAI #EuroStack #EU #DigitalSovereignty #OpenData #EUTech

Built In EU May 14

The Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, urged euro area banks to quickly prepare for cyberattacks launched with the help of Anthropic's Mythos AI model or similar tools. Most EU banks have no access to Mythos. This is no excuse for inaction. The intervention turns AI cybersecurity from a corporate IT concern into a bank supervisory one.

https://www.builtineu.eu/news/ecb-mythos-ai-cyberattacks-bank-supervision-2026-05-14

#ECB #Cybersecurity #Banking #AI #claude #EUTech

ECB orders euro area banks to brace for Mythos-style AI cyberattacks, even as access to the model itself stays out of reach

ECB Vice Chair Frank Elderson urged euro area banks to prepare for AI-assisted cyberattacks. Lack of access to Anthropic's Mythos is no excuse for inaction.

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Built In EU May 14

~/.DecentraSphere May 14

„#DigitalSovereignty isn’t about paranoia. It’s about being conscious about your infrastructure, where you decide who holds your data, who can reach it, and what happens when politics shift. The tools are there. The ecosystem is mostly mature. The only thing that was stopping me was inertia. It’s entirely possible to run a reliable, capable, professional digital stack mostly from European infrastructure. This migration was proof of that.“

#UnplugTrump #UnplugBigtech

https://monokai.com/articles/how-i-moved-my-digital-stack-to-europe/

How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe

On digital sovereignty, and why European cloud is better than you think

Built In EU May 11

The European Commission is considering rules that would restrict EU member governments from using US cloud providers to process sensitive data including financial, judicial and health records. The restrictions would form part of the Tech Sovereignty Package scheduled for May 27, which includes the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) and Chips Act 2.0. Only public-sector use is in scope.

https://www.builtineu.eu/news/eu-commission-us-cloud-restrictions-tech-sovereignty-package

#cloudsovereignty #CADA #europeantech #EU #Europe #EUTech

Brussels weighs blocking US cloud providers from sensitive EU government data ahead of May 27 Tech Sovereignty Package

The European Commission may restrict EU governments from using US cloud providers for sensitive data. Tech Sovereignty Package due May 27.

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Built In EU May 7

A working European SaaS stack for 2026. No AWS, no Stripe, no Cloudflare.

7 layers covered: Hetzner (compute), Coolify (DB), Brevo (email), Mollie (payments), Bunny.net (CDN), Simple Analytics, Zitadel (auth).

Pricing breakdown, jurisdictional notes per vendor, and the honest gaps where the European answer is still self-host:

https://builtineu.eu/blog/european-saas-stack-2026

#DigitalSovereignty #EuropeanTech #SaaS #FOSS

The European SaaS Stack 2026: A Working Blueprint Without AWS, Stripe, or Cloudflare

The complete European SaaS stack for 2026 across 7 layers. Honest vendor picks for hosting, database, email, payments, CDN, analytics, and authentication. No US dependencies.

Built In EU May 4

Mistral AI announced the launch of Mistral Medium 3.5. The model scores 77.6% on SWE-Bench Verified and can be self-hosted on as few as four GPUs. Alongside it, Mistral shipped Vibe remote agents, which run coding sessions asynchronously in the cloud with integrations for GitHub, Jira, Linear, and Sentry, and Work Mode for Le Chat, an agentic interface for multi-step tasks. #MistralAI #AI #europeantech #France #Digitalservicesact #Digitalsovereignty

https://builtineu.eu/news/mistral-medium-3-5-vibe-cloud-agents-le-chat-work-mode

Mistral ships Medium 3.5, its first merged flagship model at 128 billion parameters, and adds cloud coding agents and Work Mode to Le Chat

Mistral ships Medium 3.5, a 128B open-weight model with 77.6% SWE-Bench, plus Vibe cloud coding agents and Work Mode for Le Chat.

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Built In EU Apr 29

Pikapods Apr 29

The Dutch government has soft-launched code.overheid.nl, a government-wide open-source code platform built on Forgejo. 🇳🇱

This is a massive win for digital sovereignty, proving that large public institutions can successfully deploy sovereign infrastructure and move away from proprietary GitHub or GitLab lock-in.

https://www.nldigitalgovernment.nl/news/soft-launch-for-government-open-source-code-platform/ #forgejo #opensource #digitalsovereignty

Soft launch of open-source code platform for government - Digital Government

Code.overheid.nl platform is now live, enabling government organisations to jointly develop and publish open-source software independently.

Digital Government

Built In EU Apr 29

Two years in, the European Commission's first formal DMA review just dropped. Verdict: fit for purpose.

Documented outcomes: data portability functioning, alternative browsers chosen at higher rates as defaults, third-party app stores now live, new messaging apps entering via interoperability obligations.

The Commission names cloud and AI as next focus areas.

https://builtineu.eu/news/dma-first-review-fit-for-purpose-2026

#DMA #DigitalMarketsAct #EuropeanTech #Regulation #BigTech #DigitalSovereignty

Two years in, the European Commission says the Digital Markets Act is working

April 2026 EU Commission review finds the DMA fit for purpose: alternative browsers up, third-party app stores live, data portability functional.

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Built In EU Apr 27

EDPS Apr 27

Ten years ago, the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (#GDPR) marked a milestone for privacy and data protection in Europe.

Built on decades of work since the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, the GDPR created a modern, harmonised system fit for the digital age - strengthening individuals’ rights, reinforcing accountability, and shaping a common approach across the EU 🇪🇺.

Over the past decade, it has proven its value: giving people greater control over their personal data, fostering trust in the digital economy, and inspiring similar frameworks around the world.

As we look ahead, preserving this achievement remains essential. In the context of ongoing simplification efforts, the EDPS has emphasised that efforts to streamline rules should maintain a high level of protection and legal certainty.

Ensuring clarity, consistency, and strong safeguards will be key to keeping Europe at the forefront of data protection in the years to come.

📖 Read more about the history of GDPR: https://link.europa.eu/dFPdmX