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Feb 11
NEW: Excited to be launching a new substack🔥
We believe Europe’s glass is half full. DG Progress is here show all the ways we are already a global tech leader, and what more our innovators need to succeed.
Feb 11
🚀 🇪🇺 Welcome to DG Progress! 🇪🇺 🚀
The European Commission doesn’t yet have a Directorate-General dedicated to Europe’s economic, social, and consumer progress—so we’re filling in.
DG Progress is here to help bridge the gap between Europe’s builders and our policymaking bubble. We will shed light on Europe's strengths, advocate for what its innovators need to make the next great leaps, and share ways to get involved.
📬 Subscribe here: dgprogress.eu/
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Jun 12
The Commission published this week its AI Act Transparency Code of Practice. Here are our thoughts ⏳
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Jun 12
This Code is well overdue, and the Guidelines (expected in July), and the technical standards. Why rush and panic the industry? We argue policymakers should slow down: progresschamber.org/insights…
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Patrick Grady retweeted
"Kicking teens off platforms rather than making them safe is the wrong approach. It’s difficult to enforce bans in privacy-friendly ways, and bans don’t solve underlying issues or encourage platforms to prevent harmful behaviour,” says @patrickgrady_
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Jun 10
Waited SO long for an upgrade to Siri and the Commission take it away from us 😭
The EU rejects Apple’s blame for the delayed rollout of its AI-enhanced voice assistant, saying it was up to the US tech giant to make products that follow the rules.
“The decision not to roll out Siri AI in the EU is Apple’s and Apple’s only,” says spokesperson Thomas Regnier.
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What does progressive tech policy actually look like?
The task is to govern technology democratically, build it responsibly, and ensure its benefits are widely shared. What follows is an outward-facing, socially responsible, pro-tech, and democratic agenda 🧵
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⚖️ The equitable diffusion of technology – evenly diffused, with proper guardrails and governance, technology is a powerful democratic force. It improves access to information and services, spreads progressive ideas, and creates tools that benefit underserved members of society.
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Read about our vision for Progressive Tech Policy in Europe 👇
progresschamber.org/insights…
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Patrick Grady retweeted
May 27
Tom Cruise stressed out Top Gun: Maverick actors for this scene because he wanted the absolute perfection.
Glen Powell said:
“We shot it, and then that night, we all went out for milkshakes. Everybody grabbed a beer. And then a week later, Tom was like…
‘Guys, we’ve got to shoot it again. It wasn’t good enough. We’re gonna shoot it again’
“And then everyone was back in the gym day and night.”
Director said:
“The actors were in a very kind of stressed-out state, they’d all been working so hard to get ready for that scene.”
“They were under the pressure, the weight of the original scene being so iconic.”
“I remember Glen went out 110 percent on the first play and hurt himself, but he was able to recover quickly and we were able to get a great version of it.”
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May 21
Maybe more MPs should get off Facebook and give TikTok a go 🤷♂️
May 21
🚨 WATCH: Rachel Reeves is told off by the Deputy Speaker for announcing free bus fares for 5-15 year olds on TikTok before Parliament
"MPs should be the first to know what the Government is doing, not TikTok"
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May 21
The EU is now (after the latest delay) set to unveil its suite of "tech sovereignty" proposals on June 3. But how will the bloc position itself?
A clue lies in the lucrative tenders the Commission has been handing out based on its new "Sovereignty Score" system 🧵
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May 21
In addition, this closed, inward approach to sovereignty may harm EU companies if the EU's partners retaliate with similarly protectionist frameworks - a reason why the UK's Sovereign AI Unit remains open to foreign AI companies x.com/DGProgress/status/2057…
May 20
🛣️ On 3 June, the EU will publish its Tech Sovereignty Package, a strategy to build sovereign AI, chips, and cloud.
🇪🇺 Europe's startups need the best tools available to build and compete globally, so we hope the Commission takes inspiration from the UK (Europe's leading tech & AI hub).
James Wise - who chairs the UK's Sovereign AI Unit - outlines the UK's approach to sovereignty, and makes the case to look outward not inward to build AI capacity:
💬 "It would be incredibly short-sighted to say Brits shouldn't have access to the best software because we don't like some of the shareholders on the cap table of these companies."
Check out the full conversation with the FT's John Thornhill for Sifted's Startup Europe podcast 👇
podcast.sifted.eu/1877446/ep…
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May 21
We make the case for the EU to upgrade its Sovereignty Calculator and to take an approach to sovereignty that serves the bloc's geopolitical interests while allowing its start-ups to compete 👇
progresschamber.org/insights…
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