Frederike Kaltheuner

Leevi Saari

Processor, CPU or Chip With the Flag of European Union

How Europe Can Escape a Captured AI Ecosystem

A neural network comes out of the top of an ivory tower, above a crowd of people's heads (shown in green to symbolise grass roots). Some of them are reaching up to try and take some control and pull the net down to them. Watercolour illustration.

How AI Keeps Europe Hooked on US Cloud

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM—JUNE 3: EU Commissioner for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy Henna Virkkunen introduces the European Technological Sovereignty Package, featuring the Chips Act 2.0, Cloud and AI Development Act, and related strategies to reduce the EU's dependence on non-European suppliers for critical digital technologies. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)

Europe’s AI Sovereignty Problem Runs Far Deeper Than Frontier Access

Series: What Europe’s AI Market Actually Looks Like

In partnership with the AI Now Institute, a new series examines how Europe's AI market is built on US infrastructure and models — and why that entanglement makes sovereignty harder to achieve than policymakers assume.