Proton does not trust Switzerland to host its AI servers

The Geneva-based cybersecurity firm has lost faith in Switzerland due to proposed surveillance law changes. Proton's investments in servers will be made abroad, because the legislative changes proposed by the governing Federal Council. The encrypted email service provider fears a regime of mass surveillance of the population. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox. "Today, the market for generative artificial intelligence services is dominated by the Americans and the Chinese, with Google Gemini, ChatGPT, DeepSeek and Microsoft Copilot," says Andy Yen, director of the Geneva-based firm, in an interview published today by Le Temps. "We feel it is crucial to offer alternatives. If you look at the development of the Internet, from its origins the problem stems from the fact that in the late 1990s we let American companies dominate online search. This led to the dominant economic model of today: surveillance capitalism." The company is creating its own AI, which ...