OpenAI has revised its partnership agreement with Microsoft, allowing it to offer its models on cloud services beyond Microsoft Azure, with Amazon Web Services moving to provide OpenAI models through its Bedrock platform. Some AWS customers are reported to be unenthusiastic, saying existing Bedrock models are sufficient. Competition is also intensifying over technologies for AI agent payments, including OKX’s Agent Payments Protocol and Stripe’s Link wallet. The article rounds up related moves by global and Korean firms.

European governments are expanding efforts to reduce reliance on U.S. software and cloud services and shift to European “sovereign technology.” The trend is linked to concerns over the 2018 U.S. CLOUD Act, which can require U.S. firms to provide access to data stored abroad. France is moving health data off Microsoft Azure to a sovereign cloud provider, and the European Commission has awarded sovereign cloud contracts to several European firms.