The Vatican brought together 50 experts for a serious AI governance summit. What they offer that Silicon Valley lacks: institutional memory. They think in centuries, not quarters.
250,000 cancer papers flagged by AI as likely fraudulent. We can automate detection, but we can't automate trust — and we're not asking why the fraud market is booming.
87.4% of European SMEs don't use AI. The barrier isn't complexity or cost — it's trust. The EU is investing €1B to solve the right problem.
The EU's €1B bet on specialised AI models isn't new policy — it's validation of what already works. General models are flexible. Specialised models are actually deployable.
Deloitte used GPT-4o to write a AU$440K government report with fabricated citations and fake court quotes. The AI worked fine. The failure was human — and architectural.
The EU's €1 billion Apply AI Strategy is surprisingly pragmatic. A big win for specialisation over scale — and a blueprint worth reading if you're building in this space.
An AI maps 160 million patents back to their research origins — exposing the invisible threads linking grants to breakthroughs. Perspective changes everything.
Leadership in the AI age isn't about having answers. It's about translation — converting overwhelming complexity into actionable clarity for different audiences.
Switzerland launched Apertus — a 70B parameter open model built as public infrastructure. It's the most comprehensive approach to AI sovereignty I've seen, and a template for other nations.
An AI trained on 400,000 health histories discovered something we've long intuited: our bodies remember everything. A health event today ripples forward for decades.
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