Europe needs open-source to flourish
Europe needs to let its builders build. The bloc’s edge in AI isn’t making frontier models, it’s building on them, and open source is how.
Yaël Ossowski
Yaël Ossowski is a consumer and technology advocate, journalist, and writer. He has had over 1,000 articles published in newspapers, magazines, and online outlets.
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Could NVIDIA's purchase of Hugging Face boost AI sovereignty in the EU?
The expansion of the open-source AI ecosystem could be a boon for the EU's efforts to promote tech sovereignty.
Fight fire with fire: how open source AI models can help EU’s cybersecurity
Europe can have sovereign AI to achieve its goals for security and safety, but it needs to boost open source to make it happen.
Inspirational Innovations
European regulators are quietly green-lighting Tesla’s self-driving technology
Tesla's self-driving technology is getting unlocked in Europe, one capital at a time.
New Danish proposal for Chat Control: three fat problems remain
Denmark’s update to the EU “chat control” plan shifts to “voluntary” scanning, but ex-MEP Patrick Breyer warns it still sidesteps Parliament’s court-order safeguard, would ban under-16s from messaging apps, and could effectively end anonymous communication.
Time is running out for EU Member States to decide on Chat Control
With just a few days left before the Council is due to take a vote on the controversial proposal, both the public pressure and cross-party outcry may pose a unique challenge to Brussels' usual choreographed votes on long-debated legislation.
Red Tape Roadblocks
Return of Chat Control: something is rotten in the state of Denmark
The Scandinavian state has been a stalwart supporter of CSAM scanning and chat control. Now, they hold the keys to make it a reality.
EU to lower ESG reporting metrics to boost competitiveness and reduce compliance costs
The European Commission aims to lower its ESG reporting requirements, recognizing the compliance costs it may imposed on firms and consumers.
Red Tape Roadblocks
Europe's grandfather economy in one graphic
Whether through mergers and acquisitions, reinvention, or long-lasting family dynasties, the Old Continent continues to cling to firms that have lived longer lives than most European countries.
Red Tape Roadblocks
Europe can't achieve AI prosperity on the data of others
If European data is not available to train AI models, then it stands to reason that any European AI experience will be crummy, inaccurate, or reflect poor public data.
Breton's Elon Musk regulatory troll earns one of the most epic ratios of all time
In posting a letter online to Elon Musk, EU Commissioner Thierry Breton receives the most epic Twitter/X ratios of all time.
Free speech platforms like 'X' will never pass the EU's DSA test
Elon Musk wants X to be the premiere free speech platform. But this trajectory is completely at odds with the aims of the EU's regulatory playbook. And this battle is far from over.
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