The EU’s digital rulebook is under unprecedented pressure from the Trump administration and a homegrown deregulation wave. A new analysis by Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl, based on the...

This document is offered as an expert contribution to ongoing discussions about the data aspects of the Digital Omnibus. Drawn from my experience in digital policy, technology strategy, and digital business, I find that the Commission’s current Omnibus proposal contains a small number of provisions that achieve genuine simplification and strengthen the reliability of the regulatory environment, alongside a larger number of provisions that, however well-intentioned, would produce outcomes contrary to the legislative aims set out in the Commission’s own framing. My purpose is to provide the framework and background information necessary for trilogue interlocutors to identify which provisions can be retained, which can be improved, and which should be reconsidered, so that the final Omnibus achieves the impact that its proponents seek.

In Le Monde, Nicolas Hénin and I argue that the French state’s satirical X account, French Response, is a tactical answer to a strategic problem, and that institutions should invest in healthy, well-governed platforms so that the public follows.

In POLITICO Europe, Cori Crider and I argue that the Commission has the tools, public support, and mandate to act on Big Tech, and that trading them away in US trade talks would be a costly mistake.

[ONLINE] About The developments in generative and General Purpose AI (GPAI) systems have raised concerns about extractive data practices, market concentration…

Highlights from the CommonsDB final conference at EUIPO Alicante, exploring how open standards and federated networks can deliver scalable copyright infrastructure for Europe.

🌐 L'Europe et le Canada s'unissent sur le web décentralisé ! Eurosky et Gander Social scellent un partenariat transatlantique pour libérer l'information des algorithmes toxiques de la Silicon Valley. On vous explique les enjeux 👇

Hier, devant le Parlement européen, Ursula Von der Leyen, la présidente de la Commission européenne, a prononcé son discours annuel sur l’état de l’Union. Quelles sont les ambitions européennes pour l...

Authored by Cecilia Rikap, Cédric Durand, Paolo Gerbaudo, Paris Marx and Edemilson Paraná

A European Citizens' Initiative calls for publicly funded social media. But copying the same centralized, surveillance-based model would repeat the harms. Public money deserves a more ambitious target...

Responses to the latest EU copyright consultation fall into two camps, each calling for half of the Commission’s objectives. Only a handful of submissions show how to achieve both. This analysis highl...

Last week, in an ancient forest an hour outside Berlin, more than 500 builders, researchers, archivists, and artists gathered to ask the same question in a hundred different ways: how do we build a we...

The Public Value of Arts and Culture (PVAC) is an applied research programme led by Professor Mariana Mazzucato at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).

The EU lacks a political class willing to let go of its ‘regulate first, ask questions later’ attitude toward tech innovation.

🎉 Félicitations 🎉 🆓 La route est longue, mais la voie est libre 🆓 😻 Et vous êtes probablement sur le bon chemin 😻 La première chose à faire, c'est de ne pas aller trop vite. Révolutionner votre…

The CommonsDB project's final conference marks its end and looks ahead to the future of EU copyright infrastructure.

On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad science fiction reader.

Curate your ideas, collect flowers, and discover other gardens.

In this provocative conversation, Guatemalan technology and intellectual property lawyer and activist Renata Avila, who works at the intersection of human rights and technology, reflects on the transf...

Et si le véritable danger n'était pas l'apocalypse annoncée, mais notre acceptation de son inéluctabilité ? Du technofascisme de Peter Thiel aux bunkers de milliardaires, le discours de la fin des…

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Three and a half years after the emergence of generative AI as a new technology paradigm, there is broad agreement that AI companies have extracted enorm...

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Generative AI is reshaping how knowledge is produced, discovered, and trusted. Movement conversations have often focused on impact and risks. This session focuses on agency: how can Wikimedia play an…

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

Le rapport sur les dépendances et les vulnérabilités numériques demande des marchés publics d’État entièrement open source en 2030 et «zéro Microsoft» à l’école.

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