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...

🤖 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

I mean I did have other things to do today but fine www.theverge.com/business/828...

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...

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-...

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...

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"

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!

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...

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...

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...

Gute Erklärung von @frederike.bsky.social , warum es wenig Grund zur Freude über die Google-Ankündigung gibt:

Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.

If you're looking for some rock solid techno-geopolitical analysis, get the good stuff from @leevisaari.bsky.social.

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

We've also taken a closer look at Mistral's new funding round (and what that means for tech sovereignty debates): More here: euaipolicymonitor.substack.com/p/issue-12-m... @leevisaari.bsky.social

Dutch chipmaker ASML is investing €1.3B in French AI firm Mistral. Our EU policy fellow Leevi Saari spoke to @politico.com about how a takeover by Apple would have been “quite negative” for Europe’s tech sovereignty goals. www.politico.eu/article/asml...

In this week’s EU AI Policy Monitor, Leevi Saari and @frederike.bsky.social unpack EU's Google adtech flip flop and why attacks on Europe’s digital rulebook are so effective. Read it and subscribe: euaipolicymonitor.substack.com/p/the-brusse...

What does it mean for Europe to claim AI “sovereignty” atop global supply chains and US-owned chips? @leevisaari.bsky.social shares with @bloomberg.com: what’s on offer increasingly resembles “sovereignty-as-a-service.” Read Lionel Laurent's story here: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The Brussels Defect: "the faith that global politics is all about markets, multilateralism and economic regulation." Oof. As brutal as it is true. 🧵

NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out. Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible. Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape

NEW: @leevisaari.bsky.social unpacks the EU’s AI Continent Action Plan in this week’s EU AI Policy Monitor. It lays out measures to boost compute, data, talent, adoption, and regulatory simplification—all in an effort to position Europe as the “leading AI continent.” Read our analysis:

A year ago, Brussels uncorked champagne after the #AI Act adoption. Now, the "regulatory superpower"-story is dead; it's all about "AI competitiveness". @leevisaari.bsky.social and I ask: is this bowing to US pressure, or does the EU finally step up to the plate? www.techpolicy.press/the-eu-ai-po...

The Commission's decision not to pursue it further is less a sign of coordinated deregulatory vigor and more of a simple inability to gather the necessary troops to push it forward—it is a sign of dissensus, not consensus, write Daniel Mügge and Leevi Saari. www.techpolicy.press/the-eu-ai-po...

Tomorrow the SophI.A Summit begins! It is the biggest conf on #AI in the #tech #cluster of the Cote d'Azur! I co-organise a panel on #European AI technological #sovereignty, w/ speakers from @ainowinstitute.bsky.social (@leevisaari.bsky.social) #ARM France, SKEMA Business school >>

Here, I advertise the upcoming seminars, for your joy! In the posters you find a QR code to register- Next VOILA! is a special crossover with EFELIA Hackathon Soc[IA]l featuring @leevisaari.bsky.social from @ainowinstitute.bsky.social discussing 'Reorienting #European #AI and #innovation #policy'