Sovereignty The AI Continuity Problem AI is load-bearing in my company. That creates a new kind of business risk: what happens when access breaks, gets priced out, or gets cut off?
Apple The Neural Engine Does Not Run Your LLM My earlier post on AI hardware implied the Neural Engine handles on-device AI. It doesn't, not for LLMs. Here is what it actually does, and why the distinction matters.
AI Running Gemma 4 on Your iPhone Google's Gemma 4 runs offline on your iPhone. A follow-up to my local LLM experiment, now with a sharper app, a better model, and a clearer sense of what this category is becoming.
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.
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 Europe Fines X: The Moment the DSA Became Real I’ve been learning the DSA as it unfolded. With Europe’s first fine against X, the law steps out of abstraction and into the real world.
Money & Finance Qivalis, a New Euro Stablecoin A new euro stablecoin from Europe’s major banks shifts stablecoins from the margins into the financial system and strengthens the euro’s digital foundations.
Etymology Cybernetics: The Idea Behind Cyber Before it meant computers, cyber meant steering. This piece follows that idea from its origins to the way it now shapes states, platforms, and our digital lives.
AI Finding My Place in Europe’s AI Future Policy is loud, practice is quiet. Europe’s future will be shaped by those who build working systems. Here is where I choose to look.
Europe Where deeptech really happens From AI to nuclear ships. A look at the heavy, slow innovation shaping Europe’s future and why it matters more than the tech we usually talk about.
Identity Signing the Future: How a Digital Incorporation Made eIDAS Real A first-hand look at how eIDAS and digital signatures replace paper rituals with cryptographic trust.
Sovereignty The Real Cost of Leaving Microsoft 365 The ICC left Microsoft 365 for OpenDesk, trading convenience for control. A lesson in digital self-awareness and the true cost of sovereignty.
Sovereignty The Paradox of Sovereignty: Europe’s Search for Freedom in a Connected World The EU talks about digital sovereignty as independence, yet its strength still depends on shared systems, U.S. clouds, and global code.
Sovereignty From Sand to Software: A Whistle-Stop Tour of the AI Value Chain AI may look like pure software, but it rests on a fragile chain of quartz, optics, fabs, and GPUs. This post traces the journey, stop by stop.
Sovereignty Investing in Atoms: Alain le Loux on Building the Deeptech Future Deeptech demands patience, guts, and hands-on conviction. This article profiles Alain le Loux and the rare venture model behind Europe’s hardware hopes.
Sovereignty Featured An interview on the structural gaps holding Europe back in deeptech Deeptech isn’t SaaS. It’s often slow, risky, physical and still underfunded in Europe. What’s behind the gap with the US? A rare cross-Atlantic perspective.
Europe Wero: Europe’s new payment brand Wero is Europe’s bid for payment sovereignty: pay across borders with just an email or phone number, without relying on US networks.
Sovereignty From Shopping Cart to Server Rack: How Lidl Builds a European Cloud From groceries to gigabytes: how Lidl’s parent turned its retail IT backbone into STACKIT, a sovereign cloud based in Germany and Austria.
Sovereignty Innovation or Digitalisation? When researching AI funding in Europe, I discovered a key distinction: innovation vs. digitalisation. If you're navigating this space, it matters.
Sovereignty Sovereignty Without Soil The Knights of Malta rule without land. So do Google, Meta, and Apple. What does it mean when power no longer needs territory to govern?
Europe Mapping Europe’s Digital Ruleset Mapping the EU tech landscape wit a focus on the Netherlands: from GDPR to ESMC, from Brussels to Brabant. A strategist’s guide to rules, funds, and where to plug in.
Europe Playing the EU Game: Learning the Digital Rules by Getting in the Game From grants to governance, the EU’s digital world is a maze. I dove in—starting with DG CONNECT, DIGITAL, and the logic behind the rules.
Sovereignty My Venture into Venture Capital: What I Learned About DeepTech Investing Behind every groundbreaking technology lies a hidden system of risk, funding, and patience. This is what I discovered about venture capital.
