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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.
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.
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.
Eurosky dawns
The Eurosky initiative is building European social media infrastructure on the ATProtocol, representing a new step in Europe's digital sovereignty agenda as policymakers seek alternatives to Big Tech platforms that serve public interest rather than commercial imperatives.
Digital Commons on the EU’s Digital Sovereignty Agenda
Digital Commons are moving to the center of Europe’s digital sovereignty agenda, as policymakers look for coordinated ways to fund, govern and scale shared public-interest digital infrastructure.
Open Future Joins the European Network for Technological Resilience and Sovereignty
We join ETRS to strengthen Europe's technological resilience and sovereignty through knowledge exchange, strategic analysis of technology dependencies, and evidence-based solutions.
Open letter calls for EU to use open source AI to strengthen European digital sovereignty
This letter calls on EU leaders to harness open source AI as a key enabler of Europe's digital sovereignty and propose a five-point plan.
GEMA v OpenAI: Memory is Fragile. Garbage Lasts Forever.
GEMA's lawsuit against OpenAI has reignited the debate about AI training and copyright. This post examines the relationship between AI training and the TDM exceptions.
Leveraging Article 3 of the CDSM Directive to build public AI models
Article 3 of the CDSM Directive allows EU research organizations and libraries to train AI models on copyrighted works. This analysis explores how this legal framework enables public AI development.
