Disinformation campaigns and fake news have already influenced elections around the world in recent years, growing the electorate of populist parties. With the use of large-scale language models and artificial intelligence, the danger of populist actors further undermining the democratic process is increasing: “If we think about next year’s European elections, the existing rules on […]
The European supercomputing initiative European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) and a German-French consortium have signed a contract to build the exascale supercomputer Jupiter. This was announced by EuroHPC JU and Forschungszentrum Jülich.Jupiter will be Europe’s first exascale-class supercomputer and is scheduled to start work at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) in North […]
Austria plans to collaborate closely with Germany on implementing European AI regulation. Preparations are currently underway, said State Secretary Florian Tursky during a working visit to Berlin. Both countries aim to establish their institutions for this purpose, with Germany focusing on AI competence centers and Austria on AI authorities. “In the European digital single market, […]
The digital industry has significantly increased its spending on lobbying in Brussels to €113 million, according to calculations by Lobbycontrol and Corporate Europe Observatory. This represents a 16.5 percent increase in lobbying expenditure by the sector since 2021. The digital industry continues to spend more money on lobbying than any other sector, including the automotive […]
Today, we have cake for dessert again. No, unfortunately, not for you, but for the head of the Irish budget airline Ryanair. Climate activists threw a soy whipped cream cake in Michael O’Leary’s face. And since the Ryanair CEO was in Brussels for PR purposes, there was someone filming the pie attack – and Ryanair […]
The Digital Market Act (DMA) has reached another milestone. There have been a few surprises in the designation of gatekeepers. For one thing, the Commission has only assigned gatekeeper functions to six companies instead of seven. For another, cloud services are not included. In addition, the Commission has launched several market investigations.The six gatekeepers are […]
The end of the mandate period is approaching and the EU politicians still have a lot to do to complete their legislative projects in the area of digital. The most attention is certainly focused on the AI-Act. Europe wants to present the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence, hoping to trigger a Brussels […]
The “job interview” lasted a good two and a half hours. On Tuesday, the Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and Culture and Education (CULT) committees heard Iliana Ivanova for the post of EU Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth. Ivanova had shown “that she is the right person for the job,” CULT Chairwoman […]
The development, technology, training and operation of artificial intelligence devour enormous sums of money. Earlier this year, estimates circulated that Open AI was spending $700,000 per day just to operate ChatGPT. Training ChatGPT4 is said to have cost about $63 million. That makes investments in AI a bet with extremely high stakes. Microsoft has already […]
The EU sometimes has to accept accusations that it hides information well. In this case, it was a study on disinformation in connection with the Digital Services Act (DSA). Here, the Commission caused confusion because it published the study online last week, but withdrew it shortly afterwards, only to publish it again now. The report […]