📣🥁 Appena arrivato nelle librerie e negli store digitali!!

🇪🇺 Happening this week: 🧬 16.06 #Health Council to discuss the European #BiotechAct and medical devices simplification 🌍 18–19.06 European Council to focus on Ukraine, Middle East, EU–China, defence, migration and next MFF Read more👉tinyurl.com/49jptjud

🏭“Il ritorno del nucleare italiano: il ruolo degli SMR tra strategia europea e competitività globale”. L’approfondimento della ricercatrice I-Com Beatrice Ala👉i-com.it/2026/06/12/nucleare…

This is, perversely, good news for Britain, Australia, Japan, Europe, and other countries being cut off that would once have seen themselves as close allies of the United States. It shows us what the future may hold if AI is the strategically and economically decisive technology of the 21st century and is controlled by the US and China. It is good news because *it may be happening early enough to give us time to act.* I think this will be rescinded pretty soon, but it’s a sign of things to come. In a future where frontier models cannot be used outside the US, our industries and economies will fall behind and American businesses may not be able to operate overseas. We won’t be able to defend ourselves militarily with defence systems built on obsolete software. Europe 2031 is a good scenario of what a future like this could mean: europe2031.ai Some of the things we need to do are ‘no regrets’ measures we should do anyway. But some are genuinely costly and risky. We need cheap electricity – powered by gas, coal (this is costly, coal is very bad), deregulated nuclear fission – whatever can provide *cheap, reliable, 24/7* power. This almost certainly excludes wind power, which is enormously expensive and unreliable. We need projects to be able to connect to the grid in days rather than years by paying for fast-track connections. We need to make it incredibly easy to build data centres, with the property taxes retained locally and hypothecated for local tax cuts so there is some direct benefit for locals. This doesn’t need to be nationwide. We need to create new regulatory regimes for innovative businesses that give them the right to hire and fire staff with ease. The difficulty and cost of firing staff is one of the main reasons Europe has fallen behind so badly. We need to create a parallel employment regime that companies and workers can opt in to: worksinprogress.co/issue/why… Even though I think it will probably fail, I think we should probably try to create a good, non-American frontier AI lab. I am quite pessimistic about this – even extremely well-resourced, innovative software companies are struggling to do this. But the stakes are so high that not trying seems foolish. One thing that might work in our favour is the number of brilliant AI engineers who are not US citizens, who under the current export controls do not have access to Mythos/Fable even if they live and work in the US. What happens to Demis Hassabis, Ilya Sutskever, Andrej Karpathy, and the many other Europeans, Canadians, etc who are working on AI models in Britain and America who are affected by this? I do not think we should force our own companies to use model, because this would exacerbate their economic weakness – this lab should have to compete on an even playing field. I am deeply sceptical that this can work, but we cannot rule it out. If we do it, it has to be able to pay US salaries, operate without political constraints. worksinprogress.co/issue/how… It is cope to tell yourself that Trump is an aberration or that these export controls are a one-off. To repeat, I think these specific controls will be lifted quickly and it will be easy to move on and forget it happened. But this is a look into a potential future. Every one of us that is not a US citizen is at risk. The standard political divides do not apply here; the question is whether you grasp the enormity of AI as a technology. We have to act!

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⚕️“Covid, il rischio c’è. Gli ultimi dati e 10 proposte in vista dell’autunno”. L’approfondimento del direttore Area Salute I-Com Thomas Osborn👉i-com.it/2026/06/05/covid-il…

💻"Per un’IA al servizio del Sistema Italia". Ne parliamo al tavolo rosso I-Com📍con Antonio Baldelli, presidente Intergruppo Parlamentare AI, Empowerment e Mercati Emergenti e deputato Fratelli d'Italia Commissione trasporti, poste e Telecomunicazioni, Cristina Almici, deputata Fratelli d'Italia Commissione agricoltura, Irene Gori, deputata Fratelli d’Italia Commissione agricoltura, @Giorgiolovecc, Fabrizio Sala, deputato Forza Italia Commissione Finanze e numerosi altri ospiti. Introduce il presidente I-Com @daempoli.

🇪🇺 Happening this week : 📡 09.06 TTE (Telecoms) to aim for a general approach on European Business Wallets and updates on the DNA and the Cybersecurity Package 💶 10.06 Ursula von der Leyen expected to present the 2027 Draft Budget More 👉tinyurl.com/2wjr5fj6

Il #7giugno🗓️1954 muore Alan Turing. Matematico, logico, crittografo e filosofo britannico, è considerato uno dei padri dell'informatica e dell’intelligenza artificiale. #sundayboost #quotes

🌐 I-Com is pleased to contribute to the latest @GTIPAlliance report, "The Aftermath of the 2025 U.S. Tariffs". One year after the “Liberation Day” tariffs, it explores how economies are navigating a new global trade system. 👉Full report at: tinyurl.com/3nbszzzz

Si è tenuta a #Roma la conferenza stampa su iniziativa di @GQLiris su prevenzione e programmazione vaccinale per anziani e fragili. Si è discusso di Covid, infezioni respiratorie, medicina territoriale, comunicazione pubblica e sostenibilità del SSN. 👉takethedate.it/approfondimen…

Oggi è stato un giorno difficile per l’Ucraina dopo un massiccio attacco russo. Sono stati lanciati numerosi missili balistici e droni, anche in questo momento continuano gli allarmi aerei in diverse regioni del nostro Paese. Ancora una volta, minacce dal cielo. Solo oggi gli attacchi russi hanno causato 22 vittime a Kyiv e a Dnipro, tra cui bambini. Stiamo facendo tutto il possibile per proteggere il nostro popolo, le nostre città e le nostre comunità. E siamo grati a chi ci aiuta. L’Ucraina è riconoscente all’Italia: apprezziamo profondamente che non siate indifferenti, che desideriate per noi la pace e che consideriate la difesa dell’indipendenza e della libertà di Kyiv anche una vostra causa. Insieme riusciremo sicuramente a raggiungere questo obiettivo. Congratulazioni all’Italia, al Presidente Mattarella @Quirinale, al Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri @GiorgiaMeloni e a tutto il popolo italiano per l’80 anniversario della proclamazione della Repubblica. La libertà è una conquista che va difesa ogni giorno. Grazie, Italia! Buona Festa della Repubblica!

Il #31maggio🗓️1911 nasce Maurice Allais. Ingegnere, fisico ed economista, nel 1988 ha ricevuto il Premio Nobel per l'Economia per i suoi contributi determinanti per la teoria dei mercati e l'utilizzo efficiente delle risorse. #sundayboost #quotes

Spiace riportare per esteso un articolo, ma questa volta non posso esimermi. È proprio così, e trovo incredibile che nessuno di quelli che ha concepito questa assurdità non ne abbia ancora pagato le conseguenze.

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🇪🇺 Happening this week: 🏭 28.05 The Competitiveness Council will discuss the #IndustrialAcceleratorAct and the “28thRegime” (#EUInc). 🇨🇳 29.05 EU–China relations will be at the centre of an orientation debate led by President von der Leyen. More: tinyurl.com/mrxhujes

Il #24maggio🗓️1543 muore Niccolò Copernico. Astronomo, matematico e prete polacco, è famoso per avere sostenuto l'evidenza del sistema eliocentrico contro il sistema geocentrico fino ad allora sostenuto in Europa. #sundayboost #quotes

Non è vero che in Italia manchi la politica industriale. Esiste. È assai costosa. Ma è inefficiente perché è mirata a mantenere in vita ciò che c’è, anziché a permettere la crescita di ciò che ancora non esiste. E, così, facendo, lo si ostacola pure. ilfoglio.it/economia/2026/05…

💻“Oltre la tecnologia: competenze e governance per l’azienda AI-driven”. L’approfondimento della ricercatrice I-Com Maria Rosaria Della Porta 👉i-com.it/2026/05/15/oltre-la…

Is GenAI causing the relative decline in early-career hiring? Our latest research finds that these effects may be conflated with another important driver: the rise of WFH arrangements (1/N)

Exactly five years ago, as a Member of the European Parliament, I filed a 22-page complaint with the European Commission arguing that Spain's €53 million rescue of Plus Ultra, a tiny airline with Venezuelan shareholders operating four leased planes on three Latin American routes, was illegal state aid. The company was not strategic: 0.1% of Spanish aviation passengers, position 77 by passenger volume. The aid was nearly eight times its financial debt and more than three times the maximum the Commission's own rules allowed. The capital that lifted it out of "firm in difficulty" status pre-Covid (a requirement of the aid approval) came from a €6.3 million participative loan from a Panamanian bank, of which €4.1 million was locked as collateral in a foreign account. The actual loan was €2.2 million. Today the Audiencia Nacional has indicted former Prime Minister Zapatero for organised crime, traffic of influences, and document falsification in the same case. The criminal investigation alleges that the rescue funds were used to launder money from Venezuelan corruption, with €1.5 million in commissions paid through a consultancy owned by a Zapatero associate. Plus Ultra is what the "entrepreneurial" state looks like in practice. A small concentrated group (Plus Ultra's shareholders and their political contacts) captured a large diffuse rent (€53 million of Spanish taxpayer money). The politicians making the call were not maximising the survival of strategic Spanish industry. Rules are out and discretion is back on both sides of the Atlantic. Trump grants tariff exemptions firm by firm, takes equity stakes in Nippon Steel and Intel, allocates CHIPS Act funds on terms that are not public. Everyone in the know trades on the news. When the market fails the easy solution is "let the state intervene". But the state is not composed of angels, but of politicians who are human beings. When designing solutions to "market failure" one has to always wonder "with this design and these incentives, are there reasons to believe the state will be able to do this better"? I explained the Plus Ultra case here: youtu.be/_4dPV9HNhkE?is=VC0c… Link to my allegations in spanish: dropbox.com/scl/fi/j3enqku9q… And thread below