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.

An accident in which an AI agent deleted an entire production database in 9 seconds has drawn attention. PocketOS founder Jer Crane said the incident stemmed from a combination of issues involving the AI coding tool Cursor and the cloud infrastructure platform Railway. He said a staging and production environment shared the same volume, and Railway’s structure deleted all backups when a volume was removed, wiping months of customer data.