@yeandel.bsky.socialLast year the US produced 59 notable AI models, China 35, France and the UK one each. Europe hosts 5 per cent of world AI compute. The ECB president has started calling that leverage.
https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/lagarde-europe-five-per-cent.html #TechSovereignty
@yeandel.bsky.socialEurope's vulnerability reporting platform shipped on time, with no API and in English only. The 24 hour clock for an exploited flaw now ends with a person typing into a web form.
https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/cra-platform-no-api.html #TechSovereignty
@yeandel.bsky.socialA 300MW data centre with 120 diesel generators, classed low impact. Brazilian prosecutors want TikTok's Pecem site stopped. Not one line of the case is about data.
https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/tiktok-pecem-data-centre-blocked.html #TechSovereignty
@yeandel.bsky.socialSpain has attached digital sovereignty to the electricity socket. No declaration, no grid connection contract, and serious failure can cost the permit. The ownership test is missing.
https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/spain-data-centre-grid-sovereignty.html #TechSovereignty
@yeandel.bsky.socialThe clause Europe could never agree for cloud certification is already in Article 7 of the Business Wallets regulation: providers must not be subject to control by a third country.
https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/business-wallet-third-country-control.html #TechSovereignty
@yeandel.bsky.socialFraud flags and low ratings switched Uber drivers off automatically. No human weighed either decision. The Dutch regulator has valued that design choice at 824,990,000 euros.
https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/uber-automated-deactivation-fine.html #TechSovereignty
@yeandel.bsky.socialLatvia published every shareholder's name, contact details and holdings for anyone to download in bulk. On 3 September the Court of Justice said that breaches the GDPR. Second such ruling in four years.
https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/cjeu-shareholder-registers.html #TechSovereignty
@yeandel.bsky.socialCarney's EU associate membership talks reportedly cover jointly built data centres, cloud, satellites and subsea cables. Ottawa is also a Five Eyes capital writing its own lawful access law.
https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/canada-eu-associate-member.html #TechSovereignty
@yeandel.bsky.socialThe UAE is breaking its ten square mile AI campus into pieces. Not for power or planning. Iran hit Gulf data centres in March, then filmed the site it wants next. Physical reach beats legal reach.
https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/uae-breaks-up-the-ai-campus.html #TechSovereignty
@yeandel.bsky.socialAn outsourced SOC holds privileged access to everything you own. ENISA's certification scheme for those providers closes consultation today. It grades how well they run it, not whose law they answer to.
https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/eumss-consultation-closes.html #TechSovereignty
@yeandel.bsky.socialSouth Korea's espionage law changed today. It used to cover only spying for the North. Now it covers any country, three years minimum. The catch: national secrets, not trade secrets.
https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/korea-espionage-law-any-country.html #TechSovereignty
@yeandel.bsky.socialJapan just certified 18 regions for AI data centres. The qualifying test is a grid connection that can reach a gigawatt. Power is the sovereignty asset now, ahead of law.
https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/japan-gx-strategic-areas.html #TechSovereignty
@thefridaytimes.bsky.social⚡ EVs reset the race. Pakistan's first indigenous car should be electric: small, affordable, heat-proof, built for local roads. Link incentives to R&D, patents, university labs & exports.
By Dr. Intikhab Ulfat
www.thefridaytimes.com/10-Sep-2026/...
@renegrywnow.bsky.socialTaiwan: >90% of advanced chips below 10nm. EU: ~70-80% of cloud spend to US providers. Brussels bundled the response 3 June 2026.
Part II of Week 37: dependency vs. sovereignty.
Systems don't fail. Decisions do.
#EnergyDominance #TechSovereignty
@samgreengard.bsky.socialWhat does EU tech sovereignty look like? My latest article for Communications of the ACM. cacm.acm.org/news/europe-... #technology #digital #EU #techsovereignty #CACM
@yeandel.bsky.socialThe UK Government's AI Playbook admits AI code is "inherently insecure". Its whole defence is "double-check it". Part 1 of 3 on where the Playbook falls short.
https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/ai-playbook-page-94.html #TechSovereignty
@digitalsme.eu📣 One week left to apply for the DIGITAL SME Awards!
SMEs and startups are invited to apply across three categories:
🤖 #Techsovereignty
🌿 #Sustainability
⚙️ Digital #skills
📥️ Submit your application before 16 September here: summit.digitalsme.eu/awards/
@sal-ai.bsky.socialCheck out the latest article in my newsletter: The AI Safety Perimeter Failed. Brazil Is Opening a New Compute Corridor www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-saf... via @LinkedIn #ArtificialIntelligence #AISafety #Brazil #DataCenters #Cybersecurity #TechSovereignty #AIInfrastructure #AgenticAI
@yeandel.bsky.socialThe Sovereignty Ladder's Top Rung Is Empty
Germany's municipal utilities checked the EU cloud law's four levels: very few providers reach level 3, and level 4 has none at all.
https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/vku-cada-empty-top-rung.html #TechSovereignty
@yeandel.bsky.socialKorea Is Training an AI to Defend Itself
Seoul picked a 32-member Naver Cloud consortium to build its cyber defence AI, paid in compute: up to 256 Nvidia B200s. Sovereign model, American silicon.
https://www.yeandel.co.uk/22-q3-2026-updates/korea-cyber-defence-model-naver.html #TechSovereignty