📬 Our latest newsletter explores openness & power in Europe's digital future: Digital Omnibus fees for Big Tech, digital commons gaining policy momentum, and why Wikimedia needs a seat at the Agentic AI Foundation. Read more:
https://mailchi.mp/openfuture/the-digital-omnibus-and-open-datas-power-problemSpeakers include Alek Tarkowski (Open Future), Felix Sieker (Bertelsmann Stiftung), GraĹĽyna Piesiewicz (European Commission), Ivan Yamshchikov (Pleias), Marta Villegas (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, to be confirmed), Maximilian Gahntz (Mozilla), Nicolas Flores-Herr (Fraunhofer Institute), Raegan MacDonald (AspirationTech), and Sebastiano Toffaletti (Digital SME Alliance).
🇪🇺 13 Jan 2026 | Brussels MEP Salon: Public AI & Europe's Digital Sovereignty.
Join MEPs Kobosko & Lagodinsky and experts discussing European open source AI models that drive innovation and economic value.
Register here for a lunch event: https://openfuture.eu/event/public-ai-and-europes-digital-sovereignty/
Save the Date: Public AI and Europe’s Digital Sovereignty – Open Future
Join us at the MEP Salon in Brussels to discuss how Europe can build public AI systems that ensure competition, sovereignty, and innovation.
🎨🤖 17-18 December at the University of Amsterdam. Join us at the GenAI & Creative Practices conference, where
@CultureDoug will explore the challenges that open practice faces in the age of generative AI: ethics, governance, and the future of creative work.
https://rdt.uva.nl/content/events/2025/12/genai--creative-practices-conference.html?cb
GenAI & Creative Practices: Past, Present, and Future - Responsible Digital Transformations
This international conference, organised by Responsible Digital Transformations, will bring together scholars, researchers, and practitioners to critically examine the evolving relationship between Generative AI (GenAI) and creative work. Keynote speakers: Baptiste Caramiaux, Pei Sze Chow, Maximilian Schich & Naureen Mahmood.
The new Agentic AI Foundation—backed by OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft—will set rules for how AI agents access data. But Wikimedia's voice is missing. If this is truly about the public interest, the digital commons must have a seat at the table. Read more in the latest from
@tarkowski :
https://openfuture.eu/blog/why-wikimedia-needs-a-seat-at-the-agentic-ai-foundation/Today, we're at BnF Paris for Data Commons & AI—exploring France-Quebec perspectives on cultural data for AI systems. Watch live and catch
@paulk right now on "The Paradox of Open":
https://www.youtube.com/live/ROigWIj5bM8?si=odmSEO764Doyb3zH
Communs de données et intelligence artificielle : regards croisés France–Québec
🚨 Major AI companies are ignoring EU transparency rules on training data. OpenAI, Google, and Mistral all fall short on their commitments—and that behavior reveals an uncomfortable truth. The Commission must act.
Read more on this piece from Zuzanna Warso and
@paulk:
https://openfuture.eu/blog/5-3-3-0-transparency/🏛️How should cultural heritage institutions share data in the age of AI? Our new paper with the Europeana Foundation explores when heritage data should be available for AI training. Part of the Alignment Assembly on Culture for AI. Read more:
https://openfuture.eu/publication/impulse-paper-publishing-cultural-heritage-data-in-the-age-of-ai/
Steven Claeyssens
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