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How can AI help preserve the memories that shape us?
In our new Humans of AI episode, Airí Dordas and Pau Aleikum from Synthetic Memories (Domestic Data Streamers) talk about using generative AI for identity, healing, and human connection.
🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/e3d0513d
📺 youtu.be/xkIJmvVoG6s
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The Empty Chair at Europe’s Copyright Debate
Europe’s libraries serve millions — yet their voice was removed from the EUIPO conference panel.
A future-ready AI policy needs them in the room.
👉 informationlabs.org/the-empty-ch...
#Copyright #AI #Libraries #PublicInterest
November 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Can national libraries shape AI?
Javier de la Rosa shows how Norway’s National Library uses 20 years of digitisation to power Norwegian language models, speech tech and privacy-centric public-interest AI.
🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/1fbc85ee
📺 youtu.be/_ou1wT5XkLE
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🔥 Sender Pay Rules: Lessons from Korea’s Failed Experiment
Evidence matters: Korea’s experience shows what happens when regulation forgets about competition & innovation.
🔗 More details: www.opennetkorea.org/en/wp/7292
#DNA #NetworkFees #DisputeResolution
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🔥 EC Exec VP @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social reconfirms #TDM exception applies to #AI training!
Polish @ecrgroup.bsky.social MEP Bocheński tabled a Parliamentary question raising concerns on German EPP MEP Voss' claims in light of the EP JURI #GenAI & #copyright report.
🔗 tinyurl.com/ec-answer-td...
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It Is Time to Make the 5th Freedom a Reality!
In our #5thFreedom series, Enrico Letta explains why completing the EU Single Market by 2028 depends on unlocking the free movement of knowledge, research, innovation & skills.
🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/89a361bd
📺 youtu.be/Wj067BNnJGs
#EUPolicy
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Can libraries & museums shape the future of AI?
@danielvanstrien.bsky.social of @hf.co bridges the gap between GLAM & AI, showing how cultural institutions can power a more open, human-centred future.
🎧 Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/1f17ef1f
📺 Watch: youtu.be/0ZsYp7cIqG8
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🔥 Another bump in the road for the EC’s #DigitalNetworksAct?!
@theophane.euractiv.com reports that Germany prefers a Directive over a Regulation.
The ride gets rougher: first a delay, now Germany's suggesting a different route entirely.
🔗 www.euractiv.com/news/germany...
November 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It Is Time to Put Research First in Europe!
In our #5thFreedom series, Stephen Wyber of @ifla.org explores how the ERA Act could open access, empower libraries, and put research at the heart of EU policy.
🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/9063bef3
📺 youtu.be/TeEUGZji3lM
#SciencePolicy #EUPolicy #ERA
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Shaping the Future of Our Past with AI
AI isn’t a threat to culture — it’s a partner in preserving it.
Watch Humans of AI, our new series on how tech keeps memory alive.
👉 informationlabs.org/shaping-the-...
#DigitalPreservation #CulturalHeritage
Shaping the Future of our Past with AI: “Humans of AI” and World Digital Preservation Day
<p>This week at Information Labs, we are celebrating a powerful convergence. Yesterday, November 4th, we premiered the first episode of our new video series, Humans…</p>
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November 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
We’re thrilled to launch our new Humans of AI podcast!
Prof. @melissaterras.bsky.social of @transkribus.bsky.social — a cooperative AI platform transforming how libraries, archives, and museums bring history to life.
🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/ce0399b5
📺 youtu.be/qK5x4j7jiuQ
#AI #CulturalHeritage
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🔥 20 January 2026: A New Date for the DNA to Land?
The latest tentative agenda for upcoming College of Commissioners meetings suggests the possible adoption of the #DigitalNetworksAct proposal on 20 January 2026 in Strasbourg.
🔗 ec.europa.eu/transparency...
#DisputeResolution
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Oct 2025 information labs recap
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/octobe...
#5thFreedom with @eesc.bsky.social's Dr Paul Rübig & @communia.bsky.social's @justusdreyling.bsky.social
#DigitalSovereignty reflections
⇒ 3-part post on #GenAI, copyright & #TDM
⇒ ‘F’ for EC #DigitalNetworksAct impact assessment
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🔥 A fight is brewing in Italy about #CDNs!
Italian regulator #AGCOM gets pushback from @cloudflare.social and @netflix.com for its attempt to reclassify CDNs as Electronic Communications Networks.
A move that was criticised by others for opening the door to #NetworkFees!
#DNA
November 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
When AWS went dark for 14 hours, half the internet followed.
Europe’s answer? “Digital sovereignty.”
But control isn’t resilience. Power lies in design, not in slogans.
👉 informationlabs.org/the-great-aw...
#DigitalSovereignty #TechPolicy
The Great AWS Outage: A 14-Hour Lesson in Fragility and the Folly of “Digital Sovereignty”
<p>Monday 20 October wasn’t just another day; it was the day a significant chunk of the internet stumbled, tripped, and fell flat on its face….</p>
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October 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🔥 #DigitalNetworksAct (DNA) Impact Assessment: Pass or fail?
On 22 Oct, the EU Regulatory Scrutiny Board reviewed the EC's DNA impact assessment.
From what we hear, the Board took out a red pen, and F is the outcome, implying a possible pushback till 2026.
What have you heard?
October 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Is it time to give the 5th Freedom its breakthrough?
In our #5thFreedom series, @justusdreyling.bsky.social shows how the #ERA Act can make knowledge flow freely—unlocking faster science, stronger innovation & a more competitive Europe.
🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/896317d7
📺 youtu.be/y7-sf2OvnFU
October 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Europe can write the rules, but it doesn’t build the tools.
“Digital sovereignty” sounds decisive — until you ask what it means.
Power isn’t in the slogan, it’s in the capacity to create.
informationlabs.org/digital-sove...
#DigitalSovereignty #EUPolicy #Tech #Innovation
Digital Sovereignty: Europe’s Favourite (Empty) Buzzword
<p>Austria has kicked off the latest effort to define what “digital sovereignty” actually means for Europe. Vienna has shared the first draft of a non-binding…</p>
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October 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🔥 A reality check on European telecom health!
Timely evidence for the #DigitalNetworksAct: A new study for @cciaeurope.bsky.social concludes that the overall story is positive, contrary to incumbent operators’ “gloomy narrative”.
🔗 The study: www.commcham.com/telco-finances
#DNA #FairShare
October 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Building a Europe Where Knowledge Flows Freely!
In our new #5thFreedom episode, Dr. Paul Rübig shares why free knowledge flow is key to Europe’s future.
🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/c423db96
📺 youtu.be/qtXZUOQv6x0
#EUPolicy #Innovation
October 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Is training AI on copyrighted material legal in the EU?
Yes — under the Text & Data Mining (TDM) exceptions. The “loophole” narrative? Misleading.
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#Copyright #AIRegulation
AI Training and EU Copyright: Is It Legal? A Deep Dive into the TDM Exception
<p>A central legal question in the discourse surrounding GenAI is whether training models on copyrighted data is lawful. At EU level, certain stakeholders are pushing…</p>
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October 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
AI ≠ only about art & entertainment.
🧬 In healthcare: diagnosing fractures & epilepsy.
🚢 In supply chains: forecasting & logistics.
💊 In science: designing new drugs & materials.
informationlabs.org/the-hidden-h...
The Hidden History: Why Modern Generative AI Is Older Than You Think
<p>The recent explosion of tools like ChatGPT has fueled a narrative that GenAI is a sudden, recent phenomenon. This idea, however, is a “historical fiction”…</p>
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October 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Generative AI didn’t start with ChatGPT. 🚫
From ELIZA (1960s) → GANs (2014) → Transformers (2017), the foundations were laid long before the hype.
informationlabs.org/beyond-the-h...
#AIHistory #GenAI
October 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
information labs August-September 2025 recap

🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/august...

AI LAB
- Reflections on:
• The Danish Presidency’s #AI conference
#Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement
#Cloudflare’s “pay-per-crawl” plan
• The #Gikii2025 conference

& more!
September 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"AI in education is not a tech problem. It’s a cultural challenge, a democratic challenge, and a governance challenge," Caroline De Cock reflects after a recent Google Cloud #Education Policy Series Roundtable in Brussels.
Learn more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-edu...
#AI
AI in Education - Reflections from the Google Cloud Education Policy Series Roundtable
1. Between Bans and Breakthroughs It started with a casual remark in a conversation about the use of AI in certain colleges, where I discovered AI tools had been banned altogether.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM