The European Commission proposed in the spring a four-level scale of digital sovereignty, from European storage to full control of the software stack. In this op-ed, Arnaud Trotignon argues that the scale measures infrastructure but ignores the AI model processing the data, which he calls a blind spot in compliance.
An MIT Technology Review essay argues that tech policy celebrates companies for clearing low bars, such as promising a chatbot will not encourage suicide. Firms can meet those standards while still shipping products that cause everyday harm.
As political battles over AI intensify, a super PAC aligned with the data center industry has emerged. Its first bet is on Darline Graham, a Republican in an unexpectedly close race.
Tracking US campaign ad spending, the Wesleyan Media Project identified 220 political ads made at least partly with AI, a trend dubbed 'slopaganda'. Most of them do not disclose the use of the technology.
Since July, the EU AI Act no longer requires companies to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy. Many will read that as an exemption, which this JDN column argues is a mistake, and not only legally.
A JDN column argues that AI changes scale, speed and access to skills, and that controlling access to computing power addresses all three. Cloud platforms are the power plants of this era, and the open question is who will control them.