The future of AI is not something that will simply happen to us. It is the result of choices about who designs technology, who owns it, who controls it, and to whom they are accountable. One of the most dangerous ways we talk about Artificial Intelligence today is as if it were a natural phenomenon. […]
From WiFi4EU to public connectivity infrastructure that remains open, controllable and sustainable Municipal and community wireless networks are no longer an experimental technology used by a small number of networking enthusiasts. They have become essential digital infrastructure for public squares, libraries, schools, cultural venues, health centres, tourist areas and remote communities. The European WiFi4EU initiative […]
The remarkable progress of Artificial Intelligence has revived an old idea with renewed force: that the human mind is essentially a highly complex computer and that, once we have enough data, enough computing power and sufficiently large models, we will eventually be able to reproduce a human being in a machine. This assumption sounds plausible […]
A recent Financial Times long-read article outlined how diverse financial institutions try to promote the use of blockchain technology to optimize how their transactions are performed. This will allow them to take place instantly, rather than waiting for clearing, around the clock, rather than during working hours, and with automated actions, such as the rebalancing […]
How software teams turn experience into shared, open and controllable knowledge infrastructure The first phase of generative Artificial Intelligence adoption in software development focused heavily on prompt engineering. The basic assumption was that a skilled user, by formulating a request correctly, could obtain better code, more complete documentation or more accurate technical analysis. This assumption […]
A language model built for a specific linguistic community AMALIA is an important example of what it means to build an open language model not as a generic commercial product, but as a public research infrastructure for a specific linguistic community. Its central goal is clear: European Portuguese should not be treated as a secondary […]
The trap of the US-China AI race The American debate on artificial intelligence is increasingly shaped by one simple but dangerous sentence: if we slow down, China will overtake us. This sentence has become a political shortcut. It allows major technology companies and their allies to describe regulation, safety testing and public accountability as threats […]
From models to industrial infrastructure The global race in artificial intelligence has moved beyond the competition for the best chatbot. The real battle is now over infrastructure: data centers, chips, power, memory, storage, networking, model-training pipelines, inference platforms and the cloud services that will deliver AI to billions of users. AI is no longer treated […]
The strategic shift The most important question in artificial intelligence is no longer whether a closed commercial API gives a slightly better answer on a benchmark. The real question is who controls the infrastructure, the data, the cost curve, the audit trail and the right to adapt the system. Open models, especially open-weight models, have […]
From startup culture to sovereign capability Advanced artificial intelligence is no longer just a software market in which startups compete to build better tools. It is becoming a strategic infrastructure of state power, comparable to energy grids, telecommunications, satellites, financial networks, defence supply chains and cyber capabilities. The actors that control large models, data centres, […]