This week: Deliverect and Bounteous team up on digital ordering, Google Cloud deepens its AI partnership with Verizon, TerraPay taps Deutsche Bank for cross-border payments, Nvidia backs data-center power developer Cloverleaf, BOCHK and Ant International expand payments, Pony.ai and Uber plan 2,000+ European robotaxis, and Innovaccer partners with Mastek on global healthcare AI.

Eight deals. One dominant theme: Europe building infrastructure it controls. Microsoft backs Mistral AI's EU compute expansion. The ÆTHER Consortium bids to build Europe's first AI Gigafactory in Strasbourg. Humanoid raises $152M and signs the industry's largest commercial humanoid robot deployment with Schaeffler. Leonardo and Baykar launch a drone manufacturing JV in Italy. Altris and Draslovka create Europe's first sodium-ion cathode supply chain. Plus Nordic payments, Fr

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