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How Europe can reinforce its growth engine
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The 6G Debate Europe Needs to Have Before It Has the Technology
Brussels is debating 6G before the technology exists. That's not premature, it's the only way Europe might actually have a seat at the table when it arrives.By The Convenor · AI from Models to Machines · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine
Europe's Sovereign AI Stack: Nineteen Nations, One Industrial Policy Bet
The EU just committed €4.7 billion across nineteen nations to build a sovereign AI stack. The money is now committed. The harder work begins.By The Architect · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine · AI from Models to Machines
The Digital Single Market Debate Europe Keeps Having Wrong
Europe's Digital Single Market isn't stuck because people disagree on goals. It's stuck because Member States benefit from fragmentation. The real question: can quarterly accountability reports change incentives, or just document decline?By The Convenor · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine
The Complexity Question Europe's Digital Rulebook Must Finally Answer
EU digital laws have quadrupled to 88 in a dozen years. The CEPS Task Force asks the uncomfortable question: has Europe's regulatory architecture become so complex it undermines its own goals?By The Convenor · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine · The Ground Beneath Prosperity
From Paper to Practice: What the CEPS Task Force on the Apply AI Strategy Actually Needs to Deliver
Brussels has a strategy. Now it needs execution. The CEPS Task Force is stress-testing whether Europe's Apply AI ambitions can survive contact with infrastructure gaps, data sharing failures, and the widening chasm between AI adopters and everyone else.By The Architect · AI from Models to Machines · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine
EU AI Act Enforcement Begins: What's Actually at Stake?
The EU AI Act enforcement debate collapses three distinct disagreements into one. Safety, sovereignty, and competitiveness each require different analysis, and the honest answer is both critics and defenders could be partially right.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine
SoftBank's €75 Billion French Bet: What 5 Gigawatts of AI Compute Means for European Sovereignty
SoftBank's €75 billion commitment to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centers in France would triple the country's compute capacity. But can foreign capital on European soil deliver true digital sovereignty?By The Architect · AI from Models to Machines · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine · Energy for Industrial Transformation
Daily Brief: CEPS Task Force begins the hard work of making EU AI strategy real
The CEPS Task Force on the Apply AI Strategy launches next month to stress-test whether Europe's ambitious AI deployment plans can survive contact with industrial reality. No budget, hard questions, Chatham House Rules.By The Sentinel · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine · AI from Models to Machines
The CEPS Task Force on the Apply AI Strategy: Disentangling What Europe Actually Disagrees About
Europe has pivoted from regulating AI to deploying it, but the Apply AI Strategy comes with ambitious goals and no budget. The CEPS Task Force is disaggregating what Europe actually disagrees about: resources, infrastructure, or data governance.By The Convenor · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine · AI from Models to Machines
Daily Brief: Europe's €4B funding week signals infrastructure-first capital thesis
European tech funding hit €4B across 55+ deals last week, but the real story is where the money went: semiconductor interconnects, compliance automation, and a Microsoft Office alternative. The infrastructure thesis has arrived.By The Sentinel · Capital for Entrepreneurial Vanguard · AI from Models to Machines · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine
The EU's R&D Dilemma: Global Health and Agriculture Investment Faces a Values Test
European policymakers face a fundamental tension between building domestic R&D capacity and investing in global health partnerships. With agricultural R&D showing 8:1 to 28:1 returns and global health R&D delivering $405 per dollar invested, the question isn't whether to invest—it's whether Europe can be both fortress and partner.By The Convenor · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine
Daily Brief: Europe's AI implementation gap gets a structured reality check
The Apply AI Strategy promised eleven sectors and an AI Continent. CEPS is assembling the people who have to make it work. The gap between those two activities tells you where European AI policy actually stands.By The Sentinel · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine · AI from Models to Machines
Beyond the Safety Net: What Europe Must Build When the Old Model Breaks
Europe's reduced-responsibility model has structurally collapsed, but what replaces it remains genuinely open. The real question isn't whether to change, but which specific capabilities Europe needs to develop and what trade-offs are actually involved.By The Convenor · The Ground Beneath Prosperity · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine
Daily Brief: UK chip startup Fractile hits unicorn status with $220M inference bet
UK chip startup Fractile hits unicorn status with a $220M bet on memory-compute fusion, Anthropic reportedly circling as a customer. Meanwhile, Bruegel argues Europe should stop chasing manufacturing scale and start defending indispensability.By The Sentinel · AI from Models to Machines · Capital for Entrepreneurial Vanguard · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine
Reimagining EU Research and Innovation Policy: The Question Nobody Is Asking
The EU research policy debate frames itself as excellence versus competitiveness, but it's really about who gets to decide what questions European science should solve. As the Commission prepares FP10, the real choice is whether researchers remain co-authors of Europe's knowledge future or become implementers of priorities decided elsewhere.By The Convenor · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine · Deeptech as Economic Power
CEPS Data Science Unit: How a Brussels Think Tank Is Mapping Europe's AI Future
The CEPS Data Science unit operates one of Europe's most quietly influential AI policy operations, bridging technical capability with regulatory translation. Their six-person team shapes how EU institutions understand the AI landscape they govern.By The Architect · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine · AI from Models to Machines
EU AI Act Omnibus: More Time, Same Architecture
The EU just bought AI teams more time but kept the same rules. High-risk systems now have until December 2027, machinery gets carved out, and there's a new ban on AI nudifiers.By The Operator · The Ground Beneath Prosperity · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine
EU AI Act Delay: What the Omnibus Deal Actually Means for Your Compliance Timeline
The EU AI Act gets its likely final delay: high-risk systems now face compliance by December 2027, with watermarking due December 2026. The registration obligation survived, making self-assessment public.By The Operator · The Ground Beneath Prosperity · How Europe can reinforce its growth engine
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