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Who Controls Europe’s AI Future?
Europe's AI Gigafactories bet raises hard questions about whether public investment can deliver strategic autonomy or will end up subsidizing the very dependencies it seeks to overcome.
Public Money, Public Platforms?
A European Citizens' Initiative calls for publicly funded social media. But copying the same centralized, surveillance-based model would repeat the harms. Public money deserves a more ambitious target.
Copyright, AI, and the Limits of Voluntary Licensing
The European Parliament flags unpaid AI training, but its voluntary licensing fix overlooks the real problem: a bargaining-power imbalance that prevents fair markets.
What Delhi revealed about the challenge of AI sovereignty
Delhi AI Summit: The EU and India talk sovereignty but deepen reliance on US AI supply chains through new deals.
European Open Digital Ecosystems and Digital Commons
The EC's Open Digital Ecosystems Strategy shifts from viewing open source as licensing compliance to treating it as Digital Commons requiring sustained investment, community stewardship, and procurement reforms to build genuine sovereignty.
What is a “European Alternative” to X?
European alternatives to Big Tech platforms must go beyond sovereignty—they need decentralized models, robust safety, and public funding.
LAION Round 2: Machine-Readable but Still Not Actionable
The OLG Hamburg ruled that machine-readable opt-outs must be machine-actionable, not just intelligible—but it left the definition of standards to ongoing fragmentation.
Openness, Power, and the Paradox of Open Data in the Digital Omnibus
The Digital Omnibus goes beyond technical fixes—the EU is finally acknowledging the Paradox of Open. Differentiated charging makes sense. Weakening standard licensing risks fragmentation.
Why Wikimedia Needs a Seat at the Agentic AI Foundation
Big Tech is building governance for the agentic AI ecosystem. Wikimedia, representing the digital commons, must have a seat at the table.
5 + 3 + 3 = 0 transparency
Major AI companies are ignoring EU transparency rules on training data—despite signing commitments to comply. The Commission must act.
Open Future Joins Journalistic Investigation into Belgian and Flemish Government AI Spending
We're partnering with Apache on a journalistic investigation into how Belgian and Flemish governments are investing in artificial intelligence.
