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Global tech policy & geopolitics advisor ✨ Also:
@ainowinstitute.bsky.social
frederikekaltheuner.com
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Today, we’re excited to launch a newsletter on industrial policy and AI in Europe. A few times a month, we’ll analyze developments in Europe's AI market, track European Commission initiatives, and monitor how Draghi is being implemented. Read our first edition:
open.substack.com/pub/euaipoli...
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What's next for AI in Europe after the US election?
Introducing AI Now's newsletter on AI and industrial policy in Europe, i.e. public investment, regulatory, spending, and procurement strategies designed to promote the EU’s AI economy
https://open.substack.com/pub/euaipolicymonitor/p/coming-soon?r=p343&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
about 1 year ago
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mahsa alimardani
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I wrote about Iran's protests for
@theatlantic.com
: how AI manipulation and the suspicion of it is being weaponised to dismiss real footage of protests. This piece draws on work from my stellar team at WITNESS and years of studying information controls in Iran and beyond.
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kate brennan
5 days ago
in the wake of us v. google, i wrote for
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
how generative AI is not going to magically unseat a dominant firm like google: it's going to enable it to become even more dominant. news in the past 24 hours shows exactly this (see thread!)
www.techpolicy.press/decision-in-...
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Decision in US vs. Google Gets it Wrong on Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press
Google will continue to enjoy the fruits of its search monopoly to secure its success in the generative AI market, writes Kate Brennan.
https://www.techpolicy.press/decision-in-us-vs-google-gets-it-wrong-on-generative-ai/
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This needs more widespread coverage: The US has sanctioned five individuals, including the founder and Director of
@hateaid.org
- a German NGO that supports victims of online hate and harassment and image-based sexual abuse
25 days ago
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Justin Hendrix
25 days ago
"US companies have sold $1.7tn of investment-grade bonds in 2025, a near-record sum stoked by a rush of borrowing to fund AI infrastructure that has spurred concerns over a debt glut."
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AI debt boom pushes US corporate bond sales close to record
Investment-grade borrowers have issued $1.7tn of bonds this year, closing in on 2020’s Covid debt rush
https://www.ft.com/content/faa3d747-9a32-4219-93eb-a93c10502f06
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Hypervisible
26 days ago
Re-up on this in light of the
@404media.co
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Hypervisible
25 days ago
In response to WIRED’s request for comment about users being able to generate bikini deepfakes with ChatGPT, a spokesperson for OpenAI claims the company loosened some ChatGPT guardrails this year around adult bodies in nonsexual situations.”
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Google’s and OpenAI’s Chatbots Can Strip Women in Photos Down to Bikinis
Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-and-openais-chatbots-can-strip-women-in-photos-down-to-bikinis/
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Chris Stokel-Walker
about 1 month ago
George Osborne getting a new job isn't exactly news. But him being the latest former politician to join a tech company pushing out AI into government absolutely is. My latest for
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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George Osborne has a new job in tech, and it doesn’t bode well for Britain | Chris Stokel-Walker
OpenAI is the latest to make a political hire as big tech spreads its tentacles around the world. So what’s the attraction, asks author Chris Stokel-Walker
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/18/george-osborne-openai-big-tech-political-hires
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Hypervisible
about 1 month ago
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Elon Musk teams with El Salvador to bring Grok chatbot to public schools
President Nayib Bukele entrusting chatbot known for calling itself ‘MechaHitler’ to create ‘AI-powered’ curricula
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/11/elon-musk-el-salvador-grok
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Christopher Mims
about 1 month ago
Here's how this will go down: 1) Adversarial attacks on Sora will be unrelenting, putting Disney characters in all kinds of compromising videos 2) These will be a new firehose of slop that fly-by-night content farms will monetize on Facebook & elsewhere 3) Fan backlash will be significant
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Annika Brockschmidt
about 1 month ago
Verheerender und vielsagender Satz von Kanzler Merz zur Unterwanderung des europäischen Zusammenhalts durch die US Regierung unter Trump, gerichtet an die USA: „Wenn ihr mit Europa nix anfangen könnt, dann macht wenigstens Deutschland zu eurem Partner." Es ist nicht zu fassen.
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Charles Logan
about 1 month ago
Teach the environmental harms of AI and its infrastructure.
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More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters
Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/08/us-data-centers
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Thorsten Benner
about 1 month ago
Macron this week proposed trading away export controls on European made semiconductor equipment. Trump just weakened the US arguments against that.
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Hypervisible
about 1 month ago
Black women told you this in 2018.
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Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects
Calls for review after technology found to return more false positives for ‘some demographic groups’ on certain settings
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/05/home-office-facial-recognition-tech-issue-black-asian-subjects
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Lila Byock
about 1 month ago
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
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Ulrike Franke
about 1 month ago
A whopping 65% of Germans say Germany is acting too cautiously in asserting its interests towards the United States.
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Cori Crider
about 1 month ago
120m is no deterrent to X. Musk will moan in public - in private, he will be doing cartwheels. Tech compliance theatre won't cut it anymore. Europeans want enforcement with teeth - up to revoking access to the Single Market for the worst actors. And Musk + X are the slop merchants par excellence.
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Roland Meyer
about 1 month ago
Bei der «Stadtbild»-Debatte ging es stets um Bilder, um rassistische Phantasmen der Reinigung wie um die nostalgische Sehnsucht nach einer Vergangenheit, die nur in Bildern existiert. AI Slop nimmt nun im Imaginären vorweg, was man für die Wirklichkeit plant: die ethnische Säuberung der Innenstädte
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Ulrike Franke
about 1 month ago
A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today. 🧵
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Donncha Ó Cearbhaill
about 1 month ago
🚨 A huge leak exposes the new targets and internal operations of Intellexa, the secretive and murky company behind the notorious Predator spyware. Introducing
#IntellexaLeaks
, a joint investigation with partners
@insidestory.gr
,
@haaretzcom.bsky.social
& WAV Research Collective 🧵👇
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“This incident shows how Google is trying to leverage its Search monopoly into a monopoly on answers themselves”
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artific...
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Google deletes X post after getting caught using a ‘stolen’ AI recipe infographic
Google is facing backlash on X after a viral post for its NotebookLM appeared to use a food blogger's work without credit.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/google-deletes-x-post-after-getting-caught-using-a-stolen-ai-recipe-infographic/
about 2 months ago
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Fascinating:
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about 2 months ago
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Margot Finn
about 2 months ago
'Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.' 1/3
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Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/27/partisan-x-posts-increase-political-polarisation-among-users-social-media-research
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Hypervisible
about 2 months ago
Theft on top of theft.
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Tech Policy Press
about 2 months ago
When the Trump administration demanded ICEBlock’s removal, Apple complied—no rival app stores, just one gatekeeper’s decision, explains Meher Sethi. The takedown exposed how easily government pressure can travel through Apple and Google’s app-store duopoly and the risk it poses to democracy.
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No Kings, No Monopolies: How App Store Gatekeepers Enable Authoritarianism | TechPolicy.Press
Meher Sethi discusses how the app-store duopoly enables government pressure, including censorship of apps like ICEBlock, and poses growing risks to democracy.
https://buff.ly/1lri5yy
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Dare Obasanjo
about 2 months ago
Multiple surveys are telling the same story: AI adoption has stalled. Census data shows ~11% of workers use AI, with rates falling at 250+ employee firms. Surveys show usage spiked then plateaued. Meanwhile Big Tech is planning $5T in AI spend by 2030 that needs $650B/year in revenue vs ~$50B today
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Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/11/26/investors-expect-ai-use-to-soar-thats-not-happening
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Paris Marx
about 2 months ago
So thrilled to finally have
@ketanjoshi.co
on the podcast! We dig into what the numbers are telling us about the climate impact of data centers — and it’s not a good story. These tech companies need to be held accountable for the climate cost of their AI ambitions!
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BEUC - The Consumer Voice
about 2 months ago
7️⃣ years ago, 7 of our members filed complaints against Google over its tracking of users’ locations. A lot can happen in 7 years: the GDPR was reformed, Europeans born in 2018 are now in primary school, and the people below joined our digital & enforcement teams! Yet, this case is still pending⏱️
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DIE ZEIT
about 2 months ago
Im Europäischen Parlament stimmen die Konservativen mit rechts außen. Die Stabilität, auf der die Union basiert, wird so aufgegeben. Die politische Mitte zerlegt sich.
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EVP: In der EU ist die Brandmauer bereits gefallen
Im Europäischen Parlament stimmen die Konservativen mit rechts außen. Die Stabilität, auf der die Union basiert, wird so aufgegeben. Die politische Mitte zerlegt sich.
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2025-11/evp-brandmauer-eu-parlament-omnibus?utm_medium=redpost&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=zeitde
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Ulrike Franke
about 2 months ago
This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is. The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant.
www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'
Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Monde, Guillou discusses the impact of these measures on ...
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-french-icc-judge-sanctioned-by-the-us-you-are-effectively-blacklisted-by-much-of-the-world-s-banking-system_6747628_4.html
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Charlie Warzel
about 2 months ago
when its definitely not a hostage situation
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Tech Policy Press
about 2 months ago
Germany has the most data centres in Europe — but the boom is pushing its energy grid to breaking point. In hotspots like Frankfurt, power is already maxed out. Read our new investigation with
@algorithmwatch.org
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www.techpolicy.press/germanys-dat...
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Eliot Higgins
about 2 months ago
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
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Nanjala
about 2 months ago
There is a whole underworld of exploited workers who make up the foundation of digital tech. We talk about content moderators, but content farms are also very exploitative industries where moderately educated people with reasonable English skills in the global majority are used to push content.
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Kate Klonick
about 2 months ago
This.
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Charlie Warzel
about 2 months ago
this isn't 1 problem caused by 1 platform/piece of technology. it's many overlapping problems caused by a bunch of systems that were optimized for scale and/or built & rolled out without any real care for how they'd be used and abused. one can only conclude this is the desired use for all this tech
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Kashmir Hill
about 2 months ago
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals. OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
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I want the wholesome fish tank Internet back 😭
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Katja Bego
about 2 months ago
The Netherlands talks a big game about tech sovereignty, but is now about to allow the domestic cloud provider that underpins its national digital identity system and several other critical government services to be sold off to a new American owner. Incomprehensible.
nos.nl/artikel/2591...
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Zorgen in de Tweede Kamer over Amerikaanse overname van DigiD-partner
Het van oorsprong Nederlandse cloud-bedrijf Solvinity komt mogelijk in Amerikaanse handen.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2591322-zorgen-in-de-tweede-kamer-over-amerikaanse-overname-van-digid-partner
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David_j_roth
about 2 months ago
Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.
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Tech Policy Press
about 2 months ago
A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Facebook-owner Meta is not a monopolist in a case brought by the Federal Trade Commission over its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. Tech Policy Press associate editor
@viacristiano.bsky.social
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Key Excerpts: Meta Wins Bout with FTC Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals | TechPolicy.Press
A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Facebook-owner Meta is not a monopolist. Cristiano Lima-Strong looks at some of the key arguments in the ruling.
https://www.techpolicy.press/key-excerpts-meta-wins-bout-with-ftc-over-instagram-whatsapp-deals/
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Robin Berjon
about 2 months ago
"What we see with media organisations is that they have to go to YouTube and TikTok to find their audiences but then they get shadowbanned when they mention genocide." —
@sandervdwaal.bsky.social
#EuroskyLive
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Pookleblinky
about 2 months ago
Picture someone being sucked into a delusion spiral by chatgpt, and then ordering suicide equipment with it *mid-conversation* while it cheers them on "I just bought you $400 worth of garden rope, king"
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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...
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Meet CoreWeave, the AI industry’s ticking time bomb
The debt-laden AI compute company has been boosted by Nvidia.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/822011/coreweave-debt-data-center-ai
about 2 months ago
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For those at the European Sovereign Tech Summit: Merz just talked about the state as an anchor customer What he means is that this will boost European alternatives, but what it could also end up meaning is this:
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Naomi Klein
2 months ago
Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...
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A lesson for Germany as well
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Greetings from the Summit on European Sovereignty Interestingly: DMA enforcement for AI and cloud are now talking points (these were largely absent at the AI Action Summit). However: this is then followed by AI arms race rhetoric, gigafactories, and deregulation for sovereignty A contradiction.
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Kris Shrishak
2 months ago
In a short piece for
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
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@abeba.bsky.social
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#AIHype
Is Steering EU Policy Off Course. Stop peddling in unscientific discourse about “AGI” and “superintelligence.” Serve citizens. Don't cater to the whims of tech CEOs.
www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
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AI Hype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course | TechPolicy.Press
Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about "AGI" and "superintelligence."
https://www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-steering-eu-policy-off-course/
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Open Markets Institute
2 months ago
“The Commission must reject this paltry offer and force Google to break up its adtech monopoly once and for all.” Our response to Google's wholly insufficient remedies for its adtech conflicts of interest:
www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
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Torben Klausa
2 months ago
Ich weiß, ich bin late to the party, aber
@frederike.bsky.social
hat in den Tagesthemen Googles Rechenzentrum-Investment so dermaßen lässig auf den Punkt eingeordnet (und die Luft rausgelassen), dass es eine wahre Freude ist! 🫰
www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/u...
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US-Tech-Riese Google kündigt Milliarden-Investition in Deutschland an
Google will in Deutschland 5,5 Milliarden Euro investieren. Das US-Tech-Unternehmen setzt vor allem auf den Ausbau von Rechenzentren und der Infrastruktur. Finanzminister Klingbeil spricht von "echten...
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/google-investition-deutschland-klingbeil-100.html
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