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Governments Doing Good
What Europe can learn from America's "rip & replace" slog
If Europe wants to compete with the US and China on AI, stanch market share losses to China’s state-sponsored champions, and improve broadband connectivity, it needs to ensure that it gets its “Rip & Replace" policy right, and right now.
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.
Inspirational Innovations
Digital agriculture: 5 ways how AI is changing the way we farm
In a world in which AI permeates all walks of life, agriculture is not free of high-tech innovations. The volatility of the farming profession is made easier with algorithm-driven innovations, from crop monitoring to livestock management.
Red Tape Roadblocks
The bill comes first: costs of doing business in Germany
While the EU claims to be enhancing the Single Market, doing business in Germany - the most populous country in the EU - remains heavily burdened by countless small requirements that raise costs for German and EU founders, deterring many small businesses from entering.
Inspirational Innovations
Autonomous vehicles may help with road safety in Europe
Waymo coming to Munich’s streets is not just good news for passengers dreading the music choice of local taxi drivers, but also has wider implications for road safety and affordability.
Inspirational Innovations
Seven AI-powered solutions revolutionizing women's healthcare
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.
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.
Global Innovation Race
Competing for AI influence: China, the US & the middle powers
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.
French social media bans for minors stalls, but EU-wide decisions don't
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.
Ensuring the safety of smart glasses: constructive solutions vs. virtue signaling
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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Poland's feud with SpaceX over Starlink pricing poses a risk to SpaceX itself [updated]
Poland's feud with SpaceX over Starlink pricing posed reputational risks to SpaceX in Eastern Europe; however, Poland's reinstatement to the European region for Starlink roaming services ended speculation that the previous move was targeted at Ukraine.