The recap of week 41 · 3 – 9 October 2026
The week the Netherlands and Europe chose their own servers
The Dutch tax office is keeping its office software on its own servers, and Mistral announced a European top model you will soon be able to run yourself. Meanwhile a breach in Denmark showed how exposed you are through a supplier.
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Dutch tax office picks its own servers over Microsoft 365 in the cloud
Our view: Own servers bring your data home, not straight away your independence. Choose part by part, and know how to get out again.
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Mistral unveils a top European model you will soon be able to run yourself
Our view: Having the weights of Large 4 in your own hands soon counts for more than the European label. Still, choose it on what it does for your work.
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Password 123456 reportedly exposed the data of 8.8 million Danes
Our view: It is not just who can reach your data that counts, but how much they take. Give every access a cap and an alert, and close old accounts.
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Dutch government: AI companies are responsible when their agents hack
Our view: Whoever builds an agent is responsible for what it does, even in a test. A sentence in the prompt is not a fence: let the network decide what it can reach.
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ChatGPT text gets an invisible watermark in the EU
Our view: The watermark helps to spot AI text in bulk, not to judge a single text. Be open about where you use AI yourself; that builds more trust.
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What struck us
Keeping things in your own hands is a real choice again. Then you also need to know who else can get in.
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