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Airbus, Thales Alenia Space and their partners have studied how Europe could build data centres in orbit. Turning that architecture into a commercial service requires committed customers, credible financing and an operator willing to carry the risk. Who will build the business?
SAP’s €10 billion quarter reveals a business expanding from cloud subscriptions into the automation of work. Joule, AI agents and sovereign cloud services show how the European software group aims to make business processes and their governance its next growth market.
BNP Paribas is expanding its AI partnerships with Mistral and Google Cloud. More choice can support autonomy, but effective control depends on whether the bank can trace failures, challenge conclusions, establish responsibility and replace systems when necessary.
Nvidia’s planned investments in four French technology companies could accelerate European AI while expanding demand for its own infrastructure. The strategic test is whether these businesses gain lasting commercial strength—and retain the freedom to choose another supplier.
Deutsche Telekom’s American business gives Tim Höttges unusual financial room. As the group invests in European cloud and industrial AI while returning cash to shareholders, the central question is whether telecom can capture lasting value above its networks.
Modern warfare increasingly depends on an invisible digital layer connecting sensors, drones, cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence and command systems. The Digital Battlefield examines why control over software, data and interoperability is becoming a fundamental question of European military sovereignty.
Quantum computing may challenge the cryptographic foundations of today’s digital systems. Meridian Exchange’s fourth Strategic Roundtable explores a deeper question: how can governments preserve digital trust while the technologies upon which that trust depends begin to change?
AskDiana is not simply another AI model, assistant or agent. This Executive Dialogue explores the organisation behind the platform—and its ambition to create a governed foundation through which organisations can control knowledge, reasoning, permissions and technological choice.
As digital infrastructure becomes inseparable from national resilience, the challenge is no longer simply preventing disruption. Increasingly, governments must design systems capable of remaining operational under pressure. The future of resilience may ultimately depend upon the architecture of continuity.
Meta is investing hundreds of billions in AI infrastructure. China is making artificial intelligence increasingly affordable. As these two strategies collide, Europe may face its greatest technological challenge yet: can digital sovereignty survive the economics of everyday choice?
