Brussels is moving from procurement preference to statutory parameter: a Tech Sovereignty Package due May 27 would bar EU governments from running sensitive healthcare, finance and judicial data on U.S. cloud platforms — turning the geography of compute into law.

Today's signals cluster into three movements. Sovereignty. Canada is wiring data-control conditions into a C$925.6 million Sovereign AI Data Centres build, and Iran is treating undersea cables in the Strait of Hormuz as licensable infrastructure. Model interiority. Anthropic's interpretability team has mapped 171 emotion-concept vectors inside Claude and shown they causally shape behaviour — model 'mood' is now an inspectable parameter. Preservation and repair. Milan Design Week 2026 threads bio-based materials and participatory in ...