Amazon S3 Vectors is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany), bringing managed vector storage for AI agents, RAG, inference, and semantic search into Amazon’s EU-isolated infrastructure. The launch gives organizations with strict data-residency requirements a new option for storing and querying vector data at billion-vector scale.

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Mistral is turning Europe’s push for AI sovereignty and growing distrust of closed models into a commercial opportunity. The French lab is reportedly preparing a funding round that could raise its valuation from $13.5 billion to $23 billion, while its revenue has grown 20-fold in a year.

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The FCC is preparing a rule that could block new Chinese-made optical transceivers from entering the United States, potentially reshaping the hardware supply chain behind AI data centers. Officials reportedly want the restriction published before the end of 2026, but it could still be changed or abandoned.

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