On the heels of European Anthropic-Fable scare, the illustrious @frederike.bsky.social and I have a new piece out on the potential dangers on tethering the European AI sovereignty hopes on brilliance at the application layer. Happy to hear comments!
Frederike Kaltheuner@frederike.bsky.social · 2mo agoFrom using Europeans' pensions to build frontier models, to allowing hyperscalers to build all the data centers in exchange for frontier model access - I've heard mad takes these past few days 😱 Read our AI Sovereignty in a Captured Ecosystem series ! www.techpolicy.press/europes-ai-s...
From using Europeans' pensions to build frontier models, to allowing hyperscalers to build all the data centers in exchange for frontier model access - I've heard mad takes these past few days 😱 Read our AI Sovereignty in a Captured Ecosystem series ! www.techpolicy.press/europes-ai-s...
Europe’s AI Sovereignty Problem Runs Far Deeper Than Frontier Access
The series, in partnership with the AI Now Institute, highlights how Europe’s AI market is deeply entangled with the ecosystems of dominant US players.
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Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025. In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft. www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...
Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
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On the heels of European Anthropic-Fable scare, the illustrious @frederike.bsky.social and I have a new piece out on the potential dangers on tethering the European AI sovereignty hopes on brilliance at the application layer. Happy to hear comments!
Frederike Kaltheuner@frederike.bsky.social · 2mo agoFrom using Europeans' pensions to build frontier models, to allowing hyperscalers to build all the data centers in exchange for frontier model access - I've heard mad takes these past few days 😱 Read our AI Sovereignty in a Captured Ecosystem series ! www.techpolicy.press/europes-ai-s...
Tekoälysuvereniteetista, Fablesta ja torkuttamisesta w/@hs.fi @niclasstoras.bsky.social www.hs.fi/visio/art-20...
HS-analyysi | Trumpin tekoälykielto on kuin herätyskello, jota Eurooppa torkuttaa
Maailma sai maistiaisen historian tehokkaimmasta tekoälystä ennen kuin Trumpin hallinto kielsi sen ulkomaalaisilta. HS Vision toimittaja Niclas Storås ehti kokeilla Fable 5 -tekoälyä, joka järisyttää ...
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Germany's DeepL builds on AWS. France's Mistral builds with Nvidia. Sweden's Lovable just got a jump scare as Anthropic moved in to eat its lunch. That's the starting point of a new series we're launching with @leevisaari.eurosky.social @techpolicypress.bsky.social @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
Series: What Europe’s AI Market Actually Looks Like
In partnership with the AI Now Institute, this series explores the European AI market and tests the assumptions left implicit in EU policy documents.
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The first part is about Europe's application-layer bet - and why it may not work out as hoped With @ainowinstitute.bsky.social and @leevisaari.eurosky.social euaipolicymonitor.substack.com/p/the-limits...
The Limits of Building European AI on Borrowed Models
AI Sovereignty in a Captured Ecosystem · Part 1: The application-layer bet
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#AI policy everywhere uses "risk management (RM) frameworks". But that, @leevisaari.eurosky.social and I argue, creates blind spots: future AI harms that cannot be quantified and attributed to specific actors fall by the wayside. RM thus limits democratic control. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Tänään @hs.fi puhumassa tekoälystä ja tulevaisuudesta. Tekoäly ei ole luonnonvoima, vaan valinta. www.hs.fi/visio/art-20...
Tulevaisuus | Mitä tapahtuu viiden seuraavan vuoden aikana? Viisi ihmistä kertoo visionsa
HS Visio täyttää viisi vuotta. Juhlapäivän kunniaksi pyysimme viittä näkemyksellistä ihmistä kuvailemaan, millainen maailma on viiden vuoden päästä.
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I want to add something this morning. Watching the folks who are building open social - @seabass.bsky.social and @sherif.eurosky.social and the whole Eurosky team - is one of the genuinely inspiring stories in Europe right now. It's not easy to take territory from Big Tech. But we can, and we will.
Cori Crider@coricrider.com · 7mo agoFriends, I did it. I'm posting this from #Eurosky. 🚀🇪🇺♥️ I have not joined a beta test since *1997* - but for the sake of you all, and for a future of open social media that is Big Tech-free and fully European, I had a go. It's working fine. Watch this space!!
Enlightening chart from @financialtimes.com today. Memory is the blood in the circulation of the AI boom. The retail plebs are starting to face a severe case of anaemia.
What Berghain bouncers can teach us about limits of transparency? A lot, I say. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Against transparency - of Berghain Bouncers and the poverty of thought
Despite its prevalence, transparency does not suffice for a normative anchor in tech politics
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The montage towards the end hits especially hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_71...
ICE Kills Another American
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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The AI is management and the GPU is labor, I’m not interested in what the suits have to say
2025 is coming to end and some people who claim not to be fascists are still associating themselves with fascist outlets like X. I claim, perhaps charitably, that it's because they don't understand how the internet works. Either way, this needs to change. berjon.com/fascintern-m...
Fascintern Media
We are facing a coordinated international fascist movement that works with explicit backing from Moscow, Washington, and tech monopolies, and is propagating itself through its own media apparatus. Yet...
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🤖 AI is reshaping finance faster than regulation can keep up. Adriana Cuppuleri from @algorithmwatch.org, @leevisaari.bsky.social from @ainowinstitute.bsky.social and Christian M. Stiefmüller discuss how Big Tech is reshaping our financial system (and society). #FinanceForSociety
Essential reading in the AI bubble and the wild Wild West that is the neocloud market - with lots of insight from @leevisaari.bsky.social www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Meet CoreWeave, the AI industry’s ticking time bomb
The debt-laden AI compute company has been boosted by Nvidia.
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OK, who pulled the plug on Cloudflare just to give @ccs.bsky.social the 'reporting LIVE from another global outage' line
OUR @wsj.com OPED: The AI bubble debate misses what's already happening: a massive gov bailout, fast-tracked infrastructure, guaranteed contracts & regulatory exemptions. AI firms get a taxpayer-funded insurance policy that dot-com companies could only dream of. www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.
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Read @404media.co's piece on our new nuclear & AI report by @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social and Dr Sofia Guerra, "Fission for Algorithms: The Undermining of Nuclear Regulation in Service of AI.” ainowinstitute.org/publications...
404 Media@404media.co · 9mo agoTech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
Join us for a webinar on December 4th at 1 pm ET to launch our North Star Policy Toolkit for Data center Organizers & Policymakers. We’ll preview the guide and feature a panel of organizers who have won local and state battles against data center expansion. Register: bit.ly/data-center-...
"Profit-driven companies are an awkward fit as midwives to strategic technological development, and the Trumpian grip over Europe cannot simply be wished away on the grounds of it being humiliating, inconvenient or plainly unpleasant"
Robin Berjon@robin.berjon.com · 9mo agoWant to read something sharp and well-written in advance of the Digital Sovereignty summit tomorrow? That's what @leevisaari.bsky.social is for. www.ips-journal.eu/work-and-dig...
I had the honour of sharing some comments on the political economy of neoclouds for this great @theverge.com article by @lopatto.bsky.social Thorough and compelling read, please check it out!
Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 9mo agowhy is Nvidia propping up a company that seems doomed? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
How does big tech turn Europe's nascent digital sovereignty into a new compliance product, and what would it take to chart a different path? See my take for @fesonline.bsky.social below. www.ips-journal.eu/work-and-dig...
The big tech playbook
By framing digital sovereignty around regulation and political autonomy, big tech has deflected attention from deeper critiques of its systemic power
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Want to read something sharp and well-written in advance of the Digital Sovereignty summit tomorrow? That's what @leevisaari.bsky.social is for. www.ips-journal.eu/work-and-dig...
The big tech playbook
By framing digital sovereignty around regulation and political autonomy, big tech has deflected attention from deeper critiques of its systemic power
ips-journal.eu
We got access our hands on the document a early, so here is our deep dive: @leevisaari.bsky.social @ainowinstitute.bsky.social euaipolicymonitor.substack.com/p/eu-launche...
EU launches strategy to foster ‘sovereign’ AI ecosystem
Is it worth redirecting €1 billion of existing funds towards AI adoption?
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Gute Erklärung von @frederike.bsky.social , warum es wenig Grund zur Freude über die Google-Ankündigung gibt:
Frederike Kaltheuner, Politikwissenschaftlerin, über problematische Abhängigkeiten von monopolistischen US-Tech-Firmen
Frederike Kaltheuner, Politikwissenschaftlerin, über problematische Abhängigkeiten von monopolistischen US-Tech-Firmen
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