Tag: eu

  • labeled AI

    This applies to generated images, audio and text, as long as they were designed to look real. This content will get slapped with a digital watermark. The rules do not apply to personal content, so custom group chat jokes are still safe. Also, there’s an exemption for “evidently artistic” satirical and fictional works. Meanwhile, AI…

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  • Relative to your interests, Tuesday

    Relative to your interests, Tuesday

    I have been on vacation for a little while, in Finland for the third time. Finland feels different than the other parts of Europe I have been to. Perhaps it’s because I spent my time there in rural Finland. But it also feels like most of Finland is rural. In that way, it feels a…

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  • Question of sovereignty – debating what it means to keep control in the AI age

    This is a summary of Europe’s growing focus on AI and cloud sovereignty as a response to U.S. political volatility, vendor lock-in, and the operational risks posed by AI dependency. Summarized by AI. 🔗 Question of sovereignty – debating what it means to keep control in the AI age

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  • making money, taking care of people

    The counter-point to all those Europe is decadent economic charts people put out: After roaming the Earth for 35 years, my conclusion is the U.S. is the best place to make money and Europe is the best place to spend it.” … In terms of moving bits, the Netherlands is one of Europe’s key connection…

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  • EU Unveils Sweeping Tech Sovereignty Push, Balancing Autonomy with Openness

    The EU’s first full-spectrum digital sovereignty plan tightens cloud and chip controls while attempting to boost domestic capacity and maintain selective openness. Summarized by AI. 🔗 EU Unveils Sweeping Tech Sovereignty Push, Balancing Autonomy with Openness

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  • Luis Garicano on EU vs. US economics

    A lot of the value of American technology dominance shows up in equity, not in wages. Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon together are worth $21 trillion, more than the entire combined stock market value of all European stock markets. Around 60 percent of US equity is held by American households. The median French…

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  • While Finland and Sweden consistently rank at the top of the happiness league table, for example, both countries have also persistently experienced some of the highest suicide rates in the European Union, ranking in the top five EU countries according to one recent statistic. 🔗 World Happiness

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  • AI, banks, mainframes, and on-premises

    Above related to spending on EU sovereign cloud for AI, the lack of AI app explosion in the enterprise (see the product management/design take), and pondering why banks don’t run 100% of their IT in the public cloud.

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  • Google Cloud’s EU sovereign stuff, for AI

    Digital sovereignty is not a future trend — it’s happening now. Whether you’re in defense, finance, healthcare, or the public sector, the time to act is today. Start by assessing your tech stack, exploring sovereign cloud options, and preparing for sovereign AI-driven transformation. Don’t wait for regulations to force your hand—embrace sovereignty as a competitive…

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  • 🤖 Europe’s Innovation Constitution Calls for Radical Economic Refocus

    Europe’s prosperity is stagnating because the EU has strayed from its core mission: a functioning internal market that drives economic growth and innovation. This manifesto argues for a renaissance built on enforcing market rules, enabling creative destruction, and cutting regulatory dead weight. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: The Constitution of Innovation: A New European Renaissance.…

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  • Four Happy Cloud Foundry Users, 2025

    Four Happy Cloud Foundry Users, 2025

    From my Cloud Foundry Day EU talk. See the slides if you want to zoom in and click on the citations. My friends at Rabobank corrected a figure: they support 300 developer teams, not just developers.

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  • “won’t be available if both the user is physically in the EU and their Apple Account region is in the EU.” www.macrumors.com/2025/09/1…

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  • Pluralistic: What’s a “public internet?” (25 Jun 2025) – A lot of thinking about EU sovereign cloud, from the fiber level to the social media level.

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  • Europe’s Sovereign Cloud Crossroads: Competitiveness vs Control – “Why has cloud sovereignty become such a pressing issue? Nearly three-quarters (72%) of cloud services are provided with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud in Europe, and up to 90% of European data resides outside EU-controlled infrastructure – therefore creating serious geopolitical and jurisdictional challenges for the…

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  • OVHcloud chief in sovereignty talks with Euro Commission –

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  • Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor? – Checks out on both sides.

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  • France singles out digital services for EU’s tariff response – ‘“The second response will cover all products, and I want to stress this—services will be included,” Primas said, before listing “digital services, including those provided by the GAFAM,” as examples… GAFAM refers to Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft.’

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  • Schooled by Trump, Americans are learning to dislike their allies – ‘last year 17% of Republicans viewed the EU as “unfriendly” or as an “enemy”; that has now grown to 29%.’

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  • Dutch people concerned with U.S., Russia, Ukraine developments; More support EU army –

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  • No Rules Are Implicit Rules – The European view on enlightened American management policy: “Greg, I hate to bring it to you, but working for ten fucking hours a day is not the normal hour. I don’t care if you live in America or not. The section continues with other “grand” examples of managers taking…

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