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Miquido, a leading software development company specializing in mobile and AI solutions, and Scaleway, Europe’s leading public cloud & AI provider, have announced a strategic partnership aimed at helping organizations scale AI-powered digital products while supporting digital sovereignty across Europe. The partnership combines Scaleway’s sovereign cloud infrastructure and high-performance GPU capabilities with Miquido’s expertise in software delivery and AI-powered mobile platforms.
One of the key reasons for this partnership is the opportunity to strengthen European technological independence," said Piotr Polus, Head of Technology at Miquido. "A significant share of Miquido’s clients operate in regulated sectors such as banking, healthcare, and telecom. That is why independence and compliance with regulations, including DORA, NIS2, and the AI Act, are not optional, but essential. Scaleway is the only major cloud provider in Europe not subject to extraterritorial U.S. laws such as the Cloud Act or FISA."
In another significant development, Legora, the Stockholm-based legal AI unicorn, has announced the acquisition of London-based Wexler, a fact intelligence platform that extracts, verifies, and reasons over the factual record from large and unstructured document sets. This acquisition is Legora’s fifth in 2026, following the acquisitions of New York-based Cadastral and Stockholm-based Qura.
“Every dispute and every investigation comes down to the facts, and finding them is often the most manual and expensive part of legal work. As agentic systems take on more of that work, fact queries won’t just grow, they’ll multiply by orders of magnitude. Wexler is the infrastructure built to handle that scale today,” said Max Junestrand, CEO and co-founder of Legora.
Meanwhile, BlackRock, the world's largest investment manager with over $15 trillion in assets, is making a significant push into AI infrastructure. The company has acquired Aligned Data Centers, a operator of data centers in the United States and Latin America, for $40 billion.
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