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GDPR Brussels Matrix
After the announcement of the Digital Omnibus, which also contains some targeted and much-awaited changes to EU data protection rules, a somewhat expected wave of activist hysteria hit Brussels once again. “Selling Europeans’ rights to Big Tech”, “the biggest GDPR rollback in EU history” – it’s a narrative that brilliantly generates emotions and clicks on […]
Lost in legal language: SMEs and the AI Act
A few days have passed since the European Commission published the so-called “Digital Omnibus on AI” as part of the “Digital Simplification Package”, which also includes proposed amendments to the GDPR, the NIS2 Directive and the Data Act. This is a good moment to recall one often overlooked dimension of deregulation. It is not only […]
A Tale of Two Cities: the best of times, the worst of times (for AI in Europe)
This month, the digital policy path of Europe suddenly bifurcated. In the span of a single week in November, two courts – one in Munich, the other in London – handed down judgments that are diametrically opposed in their technical understanding of Artificial Intelligence models, their relation to copyrighted works that were used to train […]
Is AI a Repeat of the Dot-Com Bubble of 2000?
The immense amount of investment being poured into AI is an undisputed fact, companies and investors are piling billions into the ecosystem, driving valuations to unseen heights. Comparisons between today’s artificial intelligence boom and the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s and early 2000s are becoming increasingly common. Some commentators even claim the US economy […]