Europe
NATO snubs French defence start-ups

NATO's defence innovation accelerator DIANA has awarded its grants for 2026. French startups are conspicuously absent from the list of winners, notably in key areas such as space surveillance, drones and data fusion. [...]
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Europe
US and Chinese AI earth observation programmes trained thanks to free European data

Google, Microsoft and a Chinese Academy of Sciences laboratory recently presented their respective new tools and services for producing geospatial intelligence data using AI. Their algorithms were mainly trained using European satellite data in free access, a state of affairs the EU authorities do not seem to mind.

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China, Europe
Beijing's new spy satellite orbiting over Africa is thorn in NATO's side

The media followed the launch of the Chinese intelligence satellite TJS-14 on 23 January, but did not pay attention to its final destination. It now appears that it was positioned late last week in a geosynchronous orbit that is particularly intrusive for NATO as it is in the middle of its members' constellations, including the French Syracuse.

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