Thoughts on European AI sovereignty, data privacy, and open-source LLMs.
On June 12, 2026, the US government ordered Anthropic to cut off access to its most advanced AI models for every non-American on the planet. No notice. No appeal. No exceptions. If you needed a wake-up call about what digital sovereignty really means in practice, this is it.
European open-source AI has matured faster than almost anyone predicted. From Mistral to Qwen to a growing ecosystem of infrastructure tools, the sovereign AI stack is real — and it's competitive.
The EU AI Act is the world's first comprehensive AI regulation. Here's what European businesses need to know — and why running your own LLM infrastructure is becoming a compliance imperative.
European organizations are increasingly waking up to the risks of depending on US and Chinese cloud infrastructure for critical AI workloads. Here's what data sovereignty really means — and why the stakes are higher than most realize.
GDPR was written before the current wave of large language models. But its principles apply directly — and for many AI use cases, running a local LLM is the only way to stay compliant.
