EU Inc co-founder Simon Schaefer says building Europe’s first €1 trillion tech company requires ambitious EU Inc - backed by EU-wide digital registries, free registration, and a unified employee stock option regime.
With Simon Schaefer, a co-founder of EU Inc. petition
In his interview for EU Tech Loop, Bart de Witte - a Belgian native currently based in Berlin and a renowned expert on digital transformation in healthcare in Europe - sets out 5 steps the EU should follow to avoid repeating the mistakes of the first leg of the AI race.
The new ECIPE study, commissioned by CCIA Europe, suggests that the transition costs of the EU’s Cloud and AI Development Act are, on average, six times larger than the EU Commission estimates.
With Bart de Witte, a leading European voice in healthcare innovation and open source, founder of Hippo AI foundation and Isaree.
Swedish technology company Einride not only offers a European AV solution to global logistics, but also may ease Europe’s severe driver shortage - currently over 500,000 unfilled roles.
This year's State of the Union address by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, focused on three topics related to the digital policy - AI, social media use for minors, and briefly, addictive design and the upcoming Digital Fairness Act.
EU and local policymakers are eager to hear from European founders - and AI makes monitoring policy and engaging with them faster and more affordable.
Startups and more mature companies across the world are leveraging AI to make new solutions for women, spanning from preventative wearables to software making clinical trials easier and cheaper to tools for safer pregnancies.
The US-led Pax Silica and the Chinese-led WAICO are increasingly competing for global attention. While the Global West remains somewhat divided, China's WAICO builds on years of experience in influencing current & future policymakers and locking local infrastructures into Chinese tech.
The French Constitutional Council has blocked the law prohibiting minors under 15 from using social media and digital services; however, the needle may move in Brussels this fall if the EU member states agree on EU-wide rules that may trump the local law.
The German digital rights group filed a criminal complaint against Meta/Ray-Ban smart glasses, raising concerns about proportionality, applicability of the very same idea in other EU Member States, and existing issues with law enforcement.
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