Artificial Intelligence

5 articles on artificial intelligence.

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Artificial Intelligence25 October 20264 min read

Europe Doesn’t Need Another AI Strategy. It Needs Buyers.

Europe is investing in AI, but funding and infrastructure are not enough. European technology companies need customers who buy and deploy what they build.

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Defence12 October 20264 min read

The First Customer Matters

Investment gives a team time to build. A first customer tests a product’s value and gives a young company revenue, direction and a path to improve.

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Sovereignty29 September 20263 min read

A Data Centre in Frankfurt Doesn’t Make Your AI Sovereign

A Frankfurt data centre says little about who controls an AI system. Real sovereignty depends on access, portability and a credible exit plan.

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Sovereignty18 June 20267 min read

The next decade belongs to sovereign European AI

Sovereignty is not a values debate. It is a supply chain, a procurement process and a set of engineering decisions, and Europe is currently losing all three.

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Public Safety11 February 20267 min read

Building AI that earns public trust instead of headlines

Every AI company selling into government promises transparency. Almost none of them can tell you what their system did on a specific Tuesday eight months ago. That is the whole problem.

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