Artificial Intelligence is changing the world and our lives.
The German startup ecosystem is gaining momentum with 3053 startups founded in 2026, the highest number since 2019. With the right policies - both at the national and the EU level - the upturn could be amplified many times over.
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.
The expansion of the open-source AI ecosystem could be a boon for the EU's efforts to promote tech sovereignty.
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.
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.
Europe can have sovereign AI to achieve its goals for security and safety, but it needs to boost open source to make it happen.
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.
We break down the new EU’s 51-page transparency and marking guidelines for AI systems and AI-affected content.
The EU has a difficult task ahead: facilitating the use of AI across the public and private sectors, while ensuring that EU funding does not spark a wave of “AI-washing” projects, similar to the “innovation-washing” projects of the past - where funding fails to yield tangible outcomes.
A new Gov AI study reveals that EU data protection rules are stalling AI adoption, leaving 11% of advanced LLM releases delayed or blocked in Europe compared to the US. Meta faced the biggest hurdles, withholding 26% of its models from the bloc.
The AI Chamber's CEE AI Index 2026 reveals a region split in two: northern and central CEE countries are ready to lead on AI adoption, while the southern tier is still building foundations and may struggle to navigate the upcoming AI Act.
Innovation and consumer-centric insights into the EU’s digital policies and initiatives
