It is a wild and remarkable thing that a story written 2700 years ago is now being turned into a film.

Humans have a beautiful way of creating and remembering.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/15/the-odyssey-review-christopher-nolan-matt-damon

#Odyssey #TheOdyssey #Cinema

Oh shit, here we go again...

#GDPR #Privacy #USpol #EUpol #Schrems

https://noyb.eu/en/us-supreme-court-just-blew-eu-us-data-transfers

It looks like #Starmer is set to resign. I have mixed feelings about his resignation. If we imagine the nation as a ship, then I think we can say that he is the one that steared the country away from the Iceberg. That in itself is a success, however I don't think he is equipped to chart a new course for Britain.

Perhaps Andy #Burnham can? #Labour #UKpol

@sisypheheureux @RichRARobi it undoubtedly did, but everyone is pretending it's fine when it isnt

No, #Europe isn’t “Falling Behind” America.

#EUpol #USpol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DG4XeMUaA4

@dalias @jab01701mid The AI act was only recently mildly revised, changing the definition of "AI" under the law would never be an acceptable change to the majority of elected politicians, and there is no popular will to do it.

I think there are bigger fights to be fought and that's where i'll focus my efforts, but we each have to try to fix our little corner of the world to make a better world!

@dalias @jab01701mid regardless of what we say, that will be the case. Politicians and Business leaders have already decided.

Once the bubble pops, people will just call ML and Statistics by those names again.

@jab01701mid @dalias Politicians are democratically elected by the public. They absolutely are entitled to write any specifications and laws they like.

For a democracy to work, the people in it have to be proactive. We weren't proactive enough on this.

It is too late. Laws have already been written and the common understanding is already fixed. At this point, trying to fight it is an unconstructive waste of time in my opinion. (No disrespect intended).

@dalias I get where you are coming from, but that is irrelevant to me. What is relevant to me is what the institutions consider as AI, and they consider statistical models and machine learning as AI (as per the definitions in the AI act)

@dalias Industrial AI (Machine Learning) can actually be useful and profitable (IE: Agricultural/Weather/Energy predictive AI)

We should build that. We shouldn't waste more resources on LLMs.

As an FYI, the strategy itself is now public, too! You can find it here!⬇️

https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/documents-register/detail?ref=COM(2026)503&lang=en

Henna Virkunnen has started the press conference, by announcing the appointment of a new advisor on AI. I couldn't catch the name but i'll get back to this!⬇️

Henna opens by defining tech sovereignty, not as protectionism, but as not being dependent on "one company or one country", and being able to make its own choices. She highlights geopolitics and tech now go hand in hand.

She highlights the fact that currently, we rely on foreign companies for 80% of our tech, and this is a problem for autonomy but also our economies
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She highlights the mistake of "borrowing instead of building, adopting faster than developing, and consuming more than creating". Says this has to change.

She says Europe has everything we need to compete ourselves and great potential in our startups and scaleups.

There are 3 objectives:

Transform our economy by driving new tech
Reenforce supply chain resilience
European way for tech sovereignty⬇️

There are 4 elements to the package:
Chips act 2
Cloud and AI development act
Open Source Strategy
Strategic roadmap for digitalisation and AI in Energy
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On Chips:
1. Chips act 1 was good, progress was made, but the landscape has shifted because of tech developments: we need to take a share of the AI chip market too!

2. Chips act 2 will stimulate demand and consolidate supply chains, getting rid of administrative burdens.

3. We will boost demand for European Chips by changing supply system (?)

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On Cloud & AI:
1. we need infra to meet demand: we want to triple AI infra.
2. This is what CAIDA is about.
3. Sovereignty is important :we need to make sure our vital data is in Europe.

She talks about "reliable european providers". but doesn't detail⬇️

Onto the Open Source strategy: she highlights Europes huge potential: the 3mn European Open Source contributors and 500 for profit Open Source companies.

But we spend €260bn on non-EU digital products and services: its time we harness what we have to take control of our future.

This is the aim of the strategy. It aims to strengthen the autonomy of users, companies and public orgs.⬇️

The Press Conference will begin at 14:00 CET!⬇️

Now she is highlighting the need for investment, saying Europe is falling behind and has a critical investment gap.

She says public funding is a good start, but taxpayers can't foot the bill alone! Private capital is urgently needed!

To bridge the gap, a consultation will begin on building a "European Equity Capacity" to make sure European companies get the funding they need to compete and win on the global stage.⬇️