Merz e Macron chiederanno di rafforzare la sovranità digitale dell’Europa. Il vertice di Berlino sarà un tentativo di ridurre la dipendenza dell’UE dalle tecnologie americane in un contesto di crescente corsa all’intelligenza artificiale
https://sfg.media/en/a/merz-macron-strengthen-europe-digital-sovereignty/
di sergeyfomkin
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IMO, stronger EU ain’t all roses tbh.
The words “European Union” and “digital” in the same sentence now force a deep shudder down my spine.
Good for the EU, but about that intensifying AI race, where are we running to exactly? Is there some kind goal and if there is, what is it?
EU + digital is a horror story. What digital sovereignty? And what for? EU is sucking Palantir and Thorn dick (like really deep throating it), is against OS competition to Google and Apple (they hate GrapheneOS), still are on Microsoft infrastructure, are passing anti-privacy laws, are meatriding the surveillance state, are censoring the internet with obscenity laws and they are obsessively “thinking of the kids” like they were friends with Epstein (probably were with how much they get on their knees for Trump).
Until shit like chat scanning is completely and utterly killed, I’m not sure why anyone should trust an initiative like this.
No more France + Germany please. That pairing has never worked.
Merz and Macron call for strengthening Europe’s digital sovereignity
also Merz and Macron when Digital Omnibus act trashes GDPR – Zzzzzzzz…
more european cloud infra investments for one would be great. All the Germans startups I work with use AWS, sure they have datacenters in Europe but we all know if US pushed for data access do you think Amazon would say no? Also all the profits are going to USA. It’s been at least 15 years since cloud became a thing and got popular and yet there is still no European competitor.
Also let’s keep in mind that “AI Race” is pretty much infra race on processing power. Even if AI bubble bursts cloud server infra could be repurposed to some other tech.
Some very colourful comments in the thread, but the general sentiment is there – that is, you cannot have both digital sovereignty and anti-privacy laws coupled with weak/non-existent encryption, it doesn’t work like that. It’s on the same level as saying “I want to build a skyscraper, but make the foundations out of straw”.
What we actually need is getting rid of microsoft, google and so forth in all our business sectors.
And trying to get people away from US social media and amazon.
Not jumping onto the AI hype train
That the same EU that’s selling out to Palantir ?
*laughs in Estonian*
How about those two reach half our digitalisation level for starters?
Germany has a dedicated digital transformation minister. The first notable act of said minister after he took office was to join the conservative party. I don’t see much hope.
How many summits do they need, to get something together
Also Merz: German regulator approves Microsoft 365 for GDPR compliance
EU + digital sounds like “XYZ country with failing demographics + pro natality politics”
It will not move a needle.
Good joke! Half of all CDU-governed states currently plan to implement Palantir to manage their Police Databases, inadvertently opening those to American national and corporate interests .
But suuuuure, the party of “the web is uncharted territory, 2015 A.D.” is deeply concerned about digital sovereignty…
The EU has been doing the exact opposite of creating actual digital sovereignty the last 20 years, I don’t want them involved at all at this point.
So instead of building real “cloud” infrastructure they will be pumping even more money into the AI bubble?
Sounds right on point for the EU.
> Later this week, the EU will unveil proposals to revise the rules governing artificial intelligence and data protection, and this issue will be one of the central themes of the Berlin summit.
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>Strict regulations have drawn complaints both from European firms striving to catch up and from American tech giants.
Deregulation is coming it seems.
Does this mean less outsourcing to India?
Feels like they are trying hard to show unity here.
Like EU will win the AI race when Chinese and Americans are working 80 hours a week on AI for massive salaries.