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.
The more powerful our language models become, the more they resemble learned ignorance. The real breakthrough is domain mastery, not universal knowledge.
Most AI demos work perfectly. Most AI systems fail at scale. The problem isn't the model — it's everything around it.
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