The French-German space company Exploration Company and the French-Italian company Thales Alenia Space have been awarded contracts for the development of cargo return services for low earth orbits (LEO).The cargo vehicles are to deliver supplies to the International Space Station by 2030. This is remarkable in that it heralds a system change at the European […]
The Council has reached a political agreement on extending the objectives of the European High Performance Computing (EuroHPC) Joint Undertaking. A central element of the new regulation is the creation of “AI factories.” These will provide an infrastructure for supercomputing services to support the development of an AI ecosystem in the Union. The supercomputing capacities […]
At the start of the AI Seoul Summit, US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo presented a new strategic vision for the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI). She announced plans to create a global network of AI safety institutes and bring them together for a summit in the San Francisco Bay Area later this year. […]
Implementing the many digital laws adopted in the mandate that is coming to an end effectively, coherently and efficiently – that is the most important goal of the Union’s digital ministers for the new mandate. This is stated in the Council conclusions for the future EU digital policy, which the ministers adopted on Tuesday. Implementation […]
The European Commission is stepping up its action against Microsoft. It has asked the company to provide further information on the risks of Bing’s generative AI functions. Following an initial request in March, Microsoft must now provide detailed data and internal documents by May 27. This request relates in particular to the AI functions “Copilot […]
Data from networked devices can promote product development, reduce costs and enable new business models. Despite the great economic potential, data sharing is still not very widespread among German companies. This is the result of a study by the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research Mannheim (ZEW).The study is based on a survey of 1,400 […]
Today is the day the AI Act clears its final hurdle: The ministers of the member states in the Telecommunications Council want to approve the Artificial Intelligence Act – without further debate. At least that is the plan. And this time, nothing is expected to go wrong. But who knows…Digital Minister Volker Wissing and his […]
The EU Commission has initiated a formal procedure against Meta to examine whether the provider of Facebook and Instagram has violated the Digital Services Act (DSA) regarding the protection of minors. “We are concerned that the systems of Facebook and Instagram, including their algorithms, foster addictive behavior in children and create so-called ‘rabbit hole effects’,” […]
When the member states in the Telecoms Council adopt the final version of the AI Act on May 21, many questions will still remain unanswered. One of them: Who will head the newly created AI Office in the future? Filling this leadership position is no trivial matter. After all, the AI Office is not only […]
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants to take more decisive action against disinformation from abroad in a possible second term of office. To this end, the Commission should set up a European Democracy Shield. In her speech at the Democracy Summit in Copenhagen, she warned that “our democracies are being hijacked by the henchmen […]