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Europe steps up battle to cut reliance on US big tech as cloud law, political tensions intensify

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.

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Quantum computing investment divide widens as Wall Street bets and banks hesitate

Wall Street is focusing on quantum computing as a next-generation investment theme, but financial institutions differ on when it will be usable. Goldman Sachs tested quantum computing for asset management with Amazon but found no clear results and later cut most of the team. JPMorgan has kept more than 50 researchers and continues long-term work. Interest is also tied to cryptocurrency security, as quantum advances could shorten the time needed to break certain cryptography.

AI & Enterprise

Three reasons DeepSeek\'s new V4 model matters: high performance, low cost and Chinese AI chips

Chinese AI company DeepSeek unveiled its next flagship model, V4, stepping up its push into the open-source AI market. The model expands long-context handling, improves price competitiveness and highlights optimisation for Chinese-made chips. DeepSeek released two versions, V4-Pro and V4-Flash, with web, app and API access. It also touted benchmark performance and resource reductions versus its prior model. V4 is its first model optimised for Huawei Ascend chips, though analysts say a full shift away from Nvidia is unlikely yet.