This week: SEALSQ and GlobalFoundries advance post-quantum chip security, ABN AMRO taps Mistral AI for sovereign banking tools, Zscaler and Schwarz Digits launch sovereign cloud security for Europe, Sony and TSMC commit $6.3B to next-gen image sensors, Great British Energy backs UK solar-thermal manufacturing, and Accenture takes over IBM's stake in UniCredit's technology backbone.

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

This week’s partnerships reveal the next competitive layer: compute control, industrial AI, AI agents, and cross-border manufacturing. From SAP’s €1B AI acquisition to the Pentagon opening classified systems to OpenAI and Google, we break down who wins, who loses, and where operators should act next.