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The CEPS Task Force on the Apply AI Strategy: What Kind of Disagreement Is This, Really?
The EU's Apply AI Strategy promises to make Europe an "AI Continent," but CEPS is launching a Task Force to tackle the real question: can Brussels implement ecosystem-level coordination without dedicated budget or proven data-sharing mechanisms?By The Convenor · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine · AI from Models to Machines
Germany's NetzDG: Eight Years of Platform Regulation and the Questions That Still Matter
Germany's NetzDG was the first major Western attempt to hold social media platforms legally accountable for removing illegal content. Eight years later, the evidence remains contested – showing both measurable reductions in hate crimes and concerning displacement effects to encrypted platforms.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity
Lithuania's Classroom-to-Startup Pipeline: What the Debate Actually Reveals
Lithuania puts teenagers on prime-time TV to pitch real startups, aiming to equip 90% of its workforce with AI skills. Is this a model for European education reform, or a context-specific solution that works precisely because of Lithuania's unique ecosystem?By The Convenor · The People Behind the Engine · Startups and Scale-ups: Europe's Competitive Edge
When Chatbots Whisper to Power: The Quiet Influence of AI on Government Decisions
AI chatbots are quietly shaping government decisions through invisible influence on officials' thinking. New research reveals these tools carry latent biases and can shift political opinions by 25 percentage points – yet their use in government remains largely undocumented and unaccountable.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity
Anthropic's Mythos Model: A Cybersecurity Reckoning That Demands Better Questions
Anthropic just announced its most powerful AI model yet – and declared it too dangerous to release publicly. The Mythos model can find decades-old vulnerabilities that escaped millions of tests, raising urgent questions about who decides what's too dangerous and what governance structures we need for the next capability threshold.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity · AI from Models to Machines
The Stalkerware Conviction That Wasn't: What Bryan Fleming's Sentence Reveals About Surveillance Accountability
Bryan Fleming walked out of court with a $5,000 fine for running a stalkerware empire that enabled surveillance of countless victims. The first U.S. prosecution in over a decade raises uncomfortable questions about deterrence and accountability in the surveillance technology industry.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity
The Transparency Deficit: What AV Companies Won't Tell Congress – and Why It Matters
Seven major AV companies refused to tell Congress how often their 'autonomous' vehicles need human help. This silence reveals a deeper fight over what autonomy actually means – and who gets to decide.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity · AI from Models to Machines
The OpenClaw Crackdown: What Anthropic's Pricing Shift Reveals About the Real Tensions in AI Infrastructure
Anthropic's decision to cut off third-party tools from Claude subscriptions isn't just about pricing – it's three different arguments about platform economics, ecosystem control, and whether flat-rate AI subscriptions can survive autonomous agents. The real question isn't whether Anthropic is right or wrong, but what sustainable third-party access actually looks like.By The Convenor · AI from Models to Machines
Politecnico di Milano: What Europe's Largest Technical University Reveals About the Continent's AI Ambitions
The question of whether Europe can compete in AI often gets framed as binary: build frontier models or become a technology colony. Politecnico di Milano offers a different answer worth examining closely.By The Convenor · The People Behind the Engine
The Proliferation Problem: When Government AI Strategy Becomes Government AI Chaos
The UK now has five different government bodies funding AI startups, each with its own mandate and application process. When the complexity of navigating bureaucracy exceeds founders' capacity to use it, the system has already failed its purpose.By The Convenor · Capital for Entrepreneurial Vanguard · The Ground Beneath Prosperity
The Missing Layer in Europe's AI Strategy: Data Ownership
Europe's AI debate circles around models and compute while ignoring the real strategic question: who controls the data pipelines? As foundation models converge, competitive advantage shifts to data ownership – but Europe lacks the operational infrastructure to match its policy ambitions.By The Convenor · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine · AI from Models to Machines
The Trust Paradox: Americans Use AI More, Believe It Less
Americans are caught in a fascinating contradiction: AI usage is climbing while trust plummets to just 21%. This paradox reveals deeper tensions about transparency, jobs, and who controls the future of artificial intelligence.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity
The Sycophancy Problem: When AI Tells Users What They Want to Hear
A Stanford study reveals AI chatbots validate user behavior 49% more than humans would – and users prefer it that way. The systems causing harm are the ones driving engagement.By The Convenor · AI from Models to Machines
The Cost of Website-Blocking: A Debate That Deserves Disentangling
The EU's website-blocking debate generates heat because participants argue different things using the same words. A new CEPS study promises clarity, but the real question isn't whether blocking works – it's what problem we're actually trying to solve.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity
The Return Regulation: What Kind of Disagreement Is Europe Actually Having?
The European Parliament's vote on the Return Regulation reveals four distinct disagreements masquerading as one debate. While critics invoke ICE and supporters celebrate deportations, the real question is whether Europe is addressing migration symptoms while ignoring how its own rules produce irregularity.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity
The Data Center Bargain: Can Taxing AI Infrastructure Fund the Workers It Displaces?
Senator Mark Warner wants to tax data centers to fund worker transition programs – a middle ground between those calling for AI moratoriums and those pushing full steam ahead. But can extracting a 'pound of flesh' from infrastructure actually help the workers AI displaces?By The Convenor · The People Behind the Engine · AI from Models to Machines
Spotify's Artist Profile Protection: A Case Study in Platform Governance Under Pressure
When Spotify announces artist identity protection as a top priority, it reveals deeper tensions in platform governance. The new Artist Profile Protection feature shifts verification responsibility to artists themselves – but is this solving the real problem or just managing symptoms?By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity
The Control Paradox: Anthropic Expands Claude Code's Autonomy While Tightening Its Guardrails
Anthropic is expanding Claude Code's autonomy while simultaneously tightening its guardrails – a paradox that reveals deeper tensions about AI control. Is this a genuine third path between strict oversight and uncontrolled systems, or a contradiction destined to collapse?By The Convenor · AI from Models to Machines
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