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The terms you operate under. If you build in the EU — and especially in Germany — regulation is not background noise: the EU AI Act, GDPR, and sovereignty constraints are design inputs for every tooling, architecture, and data decision. This is where the Governance layer enters the Compass.

These briefings live in the Governance section — the rules layer the Compass operates within.

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Terms

Europe’s AI Choice Is Not Open or Closed. It Is Whether It Can Still Choose.

The question for Europe is not whether every model must be open. It is whether its critical institutions still have a meaningful choice when access, terms or geopolitics change.

Jul 26, 202611 min read
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AI Sovereignty Will Not Be Funded by Good Intentions

Europe is beginning to fund AI infrastructure, but trusted adoption will not happen automatically. This article argues that the missing middle layer is financing: the standards, va…

Jul 4, 202620 min read
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Trusted AI Cannot Be One Model

Europe already has important building blocks for trusted AI: AI Factories, Testing and Experimentation Facilities, Common European Data Spaces, the European Health Data Space, the …

Jun 27, 202611 min read
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AI Has a Trust Problem – Europe's Public Broadcasting Model May Hold a Clue

After TEDxBerlin, one idea stayed with me: Europe's public broadcasting model may offer a useful analogy for AI. Not because broadcasting and AI are the same, but because both rais…

Jun 18, 202611 min read
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When AI Access Becomes a Sovereignty Question

Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access restriction is a concrete example of a broader strategic issue: frontier AI is no longer just a technology layer. It is becoming a power lay…

Jun 13, 20267 min read
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Making Sense of Sovereign AI: Questions to Ask Before You Invest

Sovereign AI is no longer an abstract policy topic. It shows up in regulatory guidance, procurement rules, cloud contracts, and increasingly in ...

Dec 21, 202525 min read
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Navigating the Black Box Continuum: AI Agents vs. Automation

Artificial intelligence is no longer a science‑fiction novelty. A mid‑2025 PwC survey found that 79 percent of companies already use some form of ...

Oct 12, 202517 min read