AI Strategy Employee stock options: a small instrument with a larger economic purpose How the Netherlands is changing the taxation of employee ownership, and what that reveals about innovation, capital and competitiveness.
Money What sits underneath the payment button Mollie’s Pay by Bank announcement made me revisit the routes beneath online checkout, and the commercial choices shaping Europe’s bank-based payments.
AI Strategy Kolibri and Europe’s Emerging Industrial AI Ecosystem Aleph Alpha’s new open-weight model is interesting not because Europe has produced another chatbot, but because of what is becoming visible around it: research capability, industrial capital, cloud infrastructure and decades of accumulated knowledge.
Europe I haven’t changed my values. I am changing my mind As the foundations of European prosperity become less secure, growth takes on a different meaning. My priorities are moving because the things I value still matter.
Europe Europe can invent. But can it buy what it invents? The European Commission’s procurement proposal made me reconsider a quieter part of Europe’s innovation problem: whether public organisations can buy something unfamiliar.
Sovereignty Apertus and the Messy Case for AI Sovereignty A Swiss AI initiative looks like a model of technological sovereignty. The Dutch alternative looks far messier. That may not be a weakness.
Europe From lab to fab needs more than a fund Europe does not merely lack capital. It lacks the institutional machinery for turning research, young companies and industrial ambition into scale.
Europe Europe Has Decided ChatGPT Is a Search Engine The EU has designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine. The decision exposes the uneasy hybrid inside one product: public information infrastructure and private working environment.
AI Governance The EU AI Act Changed While It Was Arriving The AI Act became applicable six days after an Omnibus changed part of its timetable. Some obligations arrived as planned, while others moved years into the future. I think that split exposes a tension built into the Act itself.
Sovereignty Compute Is the Entry Ticket, Not the Game Compute is necessary but not sufficient. A LinkedIn debate sharpened an argument about European AI infrastructure into a longer chain: energy to demand.
AI Governance Fable 5 Is Gone. The Switch Was Always There. Yesterday I was using Fable 5. Today it's gone. The US government's export control directive on Anthropic's models is the first time I've felt AI dependency as something physical.
Europe The Axis That Made the Chips The Netherlands built its first computer in Amsterdam in 1952, moved the thinking to Eindhoven, and produced ASML. That line is history. It is also a blueprint.
Europe When the Platform Becomes the Policy The EU is taking Meta to court over WhatsApp AI access. The Dutch government is quietly switching messengers. Both point to the same structural shift.
AI in Practice The Workspace You Already Have Knowledge workers have built informal AI workspaces from Claude, Gemini, and Google Drive. The gap isn't the tools. It's governance, sharing, and where the data lives.
Europe The EU Age Verification App Was Designed to Be Distrusted The EU Age Verification App is technically sound and communicated all wrong. It buried the upside, led with fear, and launched a framework as a product.
AI in Practice The article I couldn't write I tried to write about digital sovereignty. The piece kept splitting into three. That splitting, I think, is the actual story.
Europe Leuven's quiet superpower: imec Imec in Leuven just received the world's most advanced chip machine. The story of how a small Flemish city became a global semiconductor choke point starts in 1984.
Europe EU Inc.: between words and reality in Europe’s new company proposal EU Inc. sounds simple: 48 hours, €100, fully online. In reality, it marks a deeper shift in how Europe deals with its fragmented systems.
Future of Work Mapping AI Exposure Across the Dutch Labour Market From US model to Dutch labour market in an afternoon, using AI and public data. A small project that says something larger about data work.
Europe One European Company (EU-INC) The idea of a single European company keeps returning. Not because it’s easy, but because Europe keeps running into the same limits.
Quantum Computing Just eight European quantum computers? When the EU says it is building eight quantum computers, the number sounds precise. It isn’t. This piece explores why that question is harder than it looks.
Europe Why WhatsApp Channels Trigger the Digital Services Act WhatsApp did not become social media overnight. But Channels added public reach at EU scale. That single design shift is enough to activate the logic of the Digital Services Act.
AI Governance Exploring ISO 42001 and AI governance As I dive deeper into EU AI regulation, ISO 42001 keeps surfacing. This piece explores what it is, how certification works, and why it matters for vendors.
Europe The limits of “unlimited” mobile data Unlimited data rarely means the same thing twice. At home, abroad, or on eSIMs, the limits shift. This piece maps where they actually are.
Future of Work AI literacy: from definition to practice AI literacy rarely shows up as a skill gap. It appears when organisations need to justify decisions, manage risk, and remain accountable.
