The United States Ambassador to the European Union, Andrew Puzder, issued a blunt ultimatum to Brussels on Friday, warning that the bloc’s aggressive regulatory stance against American technology giants could permanently sideline Europe from the global artificial intelligence race. In an interview with CNBC on March 27, 2026, Puzder argued that the "American AI hardware stack" - encompassing the essential data centers, processing power, and proprietary data held by U.S. firms

The European Commission has confirmed it is investigating a significant cyberattack against its cloud infrastructure, following claims by a threat actor to have exfiltrated over 350GB of data, including sensitive employee information and internal databases. The breach, which was first detected on March 24, 2026, targeted the Commission’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts used to host the Europa.eu public web platform. While the Commission maintains that its core internal sys