this is scary:

*From Monday 22 to Thursday 25 April, MEPs will meet in Strasbourg for the last plenary session before the end of the legislative cycle. They will vote on almost 90 legislative dossiers and 7 resolutions, a record for the institution. *

Our new article on 'Big AI: Cloud Infrastructure and the Industrialisation of AI' w/@fvandervlist & @fabianlferrari studies the convergence of AI and Big Tech (or ‘Big AI’), and AI’s ‘industrialization’, i.e. its transition from R&D to real-world applications and its pervasive expansion and integration across industries and sectors.

Available open access (🔓) in Big Data & Society: https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517241232630

good news everyone: https://parltrack.org/blog/announcing-new-scrapers.html

we have some nice new scrapers as already hinted earlier. they are now deployed and the data is ready to be re-used by you fine people.

Digital sovereignty is a big thing in Brussels - also in #AI. But what are the politics behind the "EU AI sovereignty" ambition?

After all, it could mean boosting EU AI at the expense of foreign competitors. But also - a completely different angle - to rein in tech influence in society tout court, so that citizens regain some sovereignty themselves. Which is it?

For the Journal of European Public Policy, I've dissected 6 yrs of Commission strategy to find out.

Now OA: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2024.2318475

"NOYB filed the complaint against the European Commission’s Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs, saying that the ads have violated the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)."

Euractiv on our complaint against the EU Commission 👇

https://www.euractiv.com/section/law-enforcement/news/eu-commissions-microtargeting-ads-on-controversial-law-faces-fresh-complaint/

🚨Super happy to see this out in
the Journal of European Public Policy as part of our upcoming special issue on digital sovereignty.

‘Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy’ (with @luukschmitz )

https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2023.2248204