With the upcoming #AIAct, 🇪🇺 will soon have the 1st comprehensive rules for trustworthy AI Constructive 2nd #trilogue tonight:   ✔️Good progress on obligations for high-risk AI ✔️Regulatory sandboxes to boost AI innovation ✔️Setting AI standards in line with 🇪🇺 values

Professor Fiona Scott Morton has informed me of her decision to not take up the post as Chief Competition Economist. I accept this with regret and hope that she will continue to use her extraordinary skill-set to push for strong competition enforcement europa.eu/!yGpNwK

EU is looking for a new Chief Economist & will launch a new job ad. But will they reimpose the obligation that all candidates have an EU passport? Answer: EC doesn't know yet. That'll be up decided in a chat between the Competition Commissioner & the HR department. /1

Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. Todd Waterbury, Angy Che and myself, The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵

Senders-pay: Italy's state secretary for digital, Alessio Butti, called a possible EU initiative to make Big Tech chip in on telecom infrastructural costs 'premature', signalling a possible change of attitude compared to the previous government. @EURACTIV euractiv.com/section/digita…

EU #unemployment in June 2023: 🇲🇹2.6% 🇨🇿2.7% 🇵🇱2.7% 🇩🇪3.0% 🇳🇱3.5% 🇸🇮3.5% 🇮🇪3.8% 🇭🇺3.9% 🇧🇬4.0% 🇨🇾4.8% 🇩🇰4.9% 🇦🇹5.1% 🇱🇺5.1% 🇷🇴5.4% 🇧🇪5.7% 🇱🇻5.7% 🇪🇺5.9% 🇸🇰6.0% 🇵🇹6.4% 🇪🇪6.6% 🇭🇷6.8% 🇫🇮7.0% 🇫🇷7.1% 🇮🇹7.4% 🇱🇹7.5% 🇸🇪7.5% 🇬🇷11.1% 🇪🇸11.7% via EU_Eurostat

A comprehensive Vox explainer from dylan matthews 🔸 on the state of #AI policy in the US. Never in history has so much precautionary regulation been preemptively proposed for any other technology. (I appreciate him adding a link to my work in here). vox.com/future-perfect…

Here is an incredibly comprehensive theoretical and experimental study of LK-99 with a definitive conclusion: "Our synthesis and subsequent analysis of an LK-99 sample reveals a multiphase material that does not exhibit high-temperature superconductivity."

📣YPDP Event! To mark the end of #YPDP's 2023 summer mentorship programme, we're hosting a panel on EU digital policy #careers, followed by a drinks & networking - thank you to AK Public Affairs for the support! Join us on 11/09 & register via the form below. #TellYourTrainee

Very glad too to take part as a mentor in the YPDP 2023 mentorship programme and for AK Public Affairs to host the closing event next week!

Definitely worth reading! What OpenAI Really Wants | WIRED wired.com/story/what-ope…

thanks YPDP for partnering up with AK Public Affairs to host the closing event of your summer mentorship programme! I would definitely recommend to others to participate as mentors in this programme next year. Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 Aedín Conboy Sabina Ciofu Zeinah A. Mugdadi

ARPANET anniversary: The internet’s first transmission was sent 50 years ago today | The Daily Swig portswigger.net/daily-swig/arp…

Today is D-day for the #AI Act. There is a lot of pressure to reach an agreement, and the stakes are very high. I have little doubt some sort of deal will be found, but there are several pitfalls to watch out for and constraints on all sides. A 🧵 on what you need to know. 1/12

Morning! It’s nearly 6 am, and the AI trilogue is still ongoing after starting at 3 pm CET…

#AI Act trilogue: after more than 15 hours since the beginning of the meeting, EU policymakers are still discussing bans with no light at the end of the tunnel yet. Looks like the timing of the Council's, and maybe even Parliament's, press conferences was over-optimistic.

#AIAct trilogue: As EU policymakers prepare for this unexpected second round, a 🧵on the remaining dividing lines and the positions of the actors involved. Spoiler alert: Much will depend on co-rapporteur Brando Benifei and the EU Parliament's centre-left. 1/8 📷FEPS

Historic! The EU becomes the very first continent to set clear rules for the use of AI 🇪🇺 The #AIAct is much more than a rulebook — it's a launchpad for EU startups and researchers to lead the global AI race. The best is yet to come! 👍

Today, the European Commission revealed some details on the AI Office. It is essentially a repackaging of the old AI directorate. The Director will remain Lucilla Sioli. There will be five units for a total of 140 people - 80 of which still have to be recruited. 🧵 1/5

The next one will be a crucial week in the European Parliament. Ursula von der Leyen will face her moment of truth on Thursday. Definitively one to watch!