Frederike Kaltheuner
@frederike.bsky.social
Global tech policy & geopolitics advisor✨
Also: EU Ai industrial policy & global governance for @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
frederikekaltheuner.com
Also: EU Ai industrial policy & global governance for @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
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What's next for AI in Europe after the US election?
Introducing AI Now's newsletter on AI and industrial policy in Europe, i.e. public investment, regulatory, spending, and procurement strategies designed to promote the EU’s AI economy
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Today, we’re excited to launch a newsletter on industrial policy and AI in Europe.
A few times a month, we’ll analyze developments in Europe's AI market, track European Commission initiatives, and monitor how Draghi is being implemented.
Read our first edition: open.substack.com/pub/euaipoli...
A few times a month, we’ll analyze developments in Europe's AI market, track European Commission initiatives, and monitor how Draghi is being implemented.
Read our first edition: open.substack.com/pub/euaipoli...
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In a short piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @abeba.bsky.social and I write #AIHype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course.
Stop peddling in unscientific discourse about “AGI” and “superintelligence.” Serve citizens. Don't cater to the whims of tech CEOs.
www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
Stop peddling in unscientific discourse about “AGI” and “superintelligence.” Serve citizens. Don't cater to the whims of tech CEOs.
www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
AI Hype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course | TechPolicy.Press
Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about "AGI" and "superintelligence."
www.techpolicy.press
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
In a short piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @abeba.bsky.social and I write #AIHype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course.
Stop peddling in unscientific discourse about “AGI” and “superintelligence.” Serve citizens. Don't cater to the whims of tech CEOs.
www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
Stop peddling in unscientific discourse about “AGI” and “superintelligence.” Serve citizens. Don't cater to the whims of tech CEOs.
www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
Reposted by Frederike Kaltheuner
“The Commission must reject this paltry offer and force Google to break up its adtech monopoly once and for all.”
Our response to Google's wholly insufficient remedies for its adtech conflicts of interest: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
Our response to Google's wholly insufficient remedies for its adtech conflicts of interest: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
November 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“The Commission must reject this paltry offer and force Google to break up its adtech monopoly once and for all.”
Our response to Google's wholly insufficient remedies for its adtech conflicts of interest: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
Our response to Google's wholly insufficient remedies for its adtech conflicts of interest: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...
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Ich weiß, ich bin late to the party, aber @frederike.bsky.social hat in den Tagesthemen Googles Rechenzentrum-Investment so dermaßen lässig auf den Punkt eingeordnet (und die Luft rausgelassen), dass es eine wahre Freude ist! 🫰
www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/u...
www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/u...
US-Tech-Riese Google kündigt Milliarden-Investition in Deutschland an
Google will in Deutschland 5,5 Milliarden Euro investieren. Das US-Tech-Unternehmen setzt vor allem auf den Ausbau von Rechenzentren und der Infrastruktur. Finanzminister Klingbeil spricht von "echten...
www.tagesschau.de
November 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Ich weiß, ich bin late to the party, aber @frederike.bsky.social hat in den Tagesthemen Googles Rechenzentrum-Investment so dermaßen lässig auf den Punkt eingeordnet (und die Luft rausgelassen), dass es eine wahre Freude ist! 🫰
www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/u...
www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/u...
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This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.
www.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
This 👇🏻
That is, there is no broad "AI jobs apocalypse," as AI is too unreliable and limited to do jobs that demand accuracy or empathy. But plenty of managers will use it to try to replace human art with cheaper "good enough" AI art. So it does appear that bosses embracing AI are hitting creatives hard.
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This 👇🏻
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Gute Erklärung von @frederike.bsky.social , warum es wenig Grund zur Freude über die Google-Ankündigung gibt:
Frederike Kaltheuner, Politikwissenschaftlerin, über problematische Abhängigkeiten von monopolistischen US-Tech-Firmen
Frederike Kaltheuner, Politikwissenschaftlerin, über problematische Abhängigkeiten von monopolistischen US-Tech-Firmen
www.tagesschau.de
November 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Gute Erklärung von @frederike.bsky.social , warum es wenig Grund zur Freude über die Google-Ankündigung gibt:
This was an exceptionally good panel.
With a very stern warning to Europe:
you are blindly chasing Big Tech's vision for AI
With a very stern warning to Europe:
you are blindly chasing Big Tech's vision for AI
📣 Back from lunch break! Now @aschwab.bsky.social MEP EPP (Germany), @kate-brennan.bsky.social at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social, Natali Helberger at University of Amsterdam, and Roger McNamee at Elevation Partners, in conversation with @interdonde.bsky.social ▶️ www.youtube.com/live/KlO8ta8...
The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI
YouTube video by Open Markets Institute
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This was an exceptionally good panel.
With a very stern warning to Europe:
you are blindly chasing Big Tech's vision for AI
With a very stern warning to Europe:
you are blindly chasing Big Tech's vision for AI
Reposted by Frederike Kaltheuner
On the new EU AI strategy 👀
"Despite a colorful graph, it remains unclear how exactly the various stakeholder initiatives will work together."
"Despite a colorful graph, it remains unclear how exactly the various stakeholder initiatives will work together."
We got access our hands on the document a early, so here is our deep dive:
@leevisaari.bsky.social
@ainowinstitute.bsky.social
euaipolicymonitor.substack.com/p/eu-launche...
@leevisaari.bsky.social
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euaipolicymonitor.substack.com/p/eu-launche...
EU launches strategy to foster ‘sovereign’ AI ecosystem
Is it worth redirecting €1 billion of existing funds towards AI adoption?
euaipolicymonitor.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
On the new EU AI strategy 👀
"Despite a colorful graph, it remains unclear how exactly the various stakeholder initiatives will work together."
"Despite a colorful graph, it remains unclear how exactly the various stakeholder initiatives will work together."
Today, the Commission launched a new AI strategy, branded as a push to reduce reliance on the US and China.
What the strategy gets right: Europe’s structural dependence
The strategy’s blind spot: Is it worth redirecting €1 billion of existing funds towards AI?
What the strategy gets right: Europe’s structural dependence
The strategy’s blind spot: Is it worth redirecting €1 billion of existing funds towards AI?
October 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Today, the Commission launched a new AI strategy, branded as a push to reduce reliance on the US and China.
What the strategy gets right: Europe’s structural dependence
The strategy’s blind spot: Is it worth redirecting €1 billion of existing funds towards AI?
What the strategy gets right: Europe’s structural dependence
The strategy’s blind spot: Is it worth redirecting €1 billion of existing funds towards AI?
We've also taken a closer look at Mistral's new funding round (and what that means for tech sovereignty debates):
More here: euaipolicymonitor.substack.com/p/issue-12-m... @leevisaari.bsky.social
More here: euaipolicymonitor.substack.com/p/issue-12-m... @leevisaari.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
We've also taken a closer look at Mistral's new funding round (and what that means for tech sovereignty debates):
More here: euaipolicymonitor.substack.com/p/issue-12-m... @leevisaari.bsky.social
More here: euaipolicymonitor.substack.com/p/issue-12-m... @leevisaari.bsky.social
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I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements"
www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...
www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...
Exclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year away
Managing those AI identities will require companies to completely reassess their cybersecurity strategies.
www.axios.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements"
www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...
www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...
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👉 👈 Meta announced that they're changing their models to reduce "left-leaning [political] bias"--that means leaning them to the political "right". Lots to unpack about what that might mean. So I ran a quick "shot in the dark" study...and found a *political right* bias in Meta models. Some notes.🧵
April 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
👉 👈 Meta announced that they're changing their models to reduce "left-leaning [political] bias"--that means leaning them to the political "right". Lots to unpack about what that might mean. So I ran a quick "shot in the dark" study...and found a *political right* bias in Meta models. Some notes.🧵
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The dramatically low percentages of Dutch and German people that see the US as a positive force in the world — traditionally among the most transatlantic West European countries (with the UK) — is particularly telling.
America’s reputation drops across the world
The proportion saying the United States will have a positive influence on world affairs has fallen in 26 out of 29 countries over the last six months. America’s reputation has fallen most markedly in ...
www.ipsos.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The dramatically low percentages of Dutch and German people that see the US as a positive force in the world — traditionally among the most transatlantic West European countries (with the UK) — is particularly telling.
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Wow. NATO contracting Palantir sounds such a bad move in the worst possible time for Europe.
Why to create yet another form of structural dependence on the US?
shape.nato.int/news-release...
Why to create yet another form of structural dependence on the US?
shape.nato.int/news-release...
shape.nato.int
April 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Wow. NATO contracting Palantir sounds such a bad move in the worst possible time for Europe.
Why to create yet another form of structural dependence on the US?
shape.nato.int/news-release...
Why to create yet another form of structural dependence on the US?
shape.nato.int/news-release...
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Germany still hasn’t paid reparations for its genocide in Namibia. Now, a green hydrogen megaproject risks further burying that history – sidestepping the voices of victims’ descendants. I met some of them in Namibia. This is my report (Support my work on Substack).
open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...
open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...
From Genocide to Greenwashing: Germany’s Legacy in Namibia
Germany hasn’t paid reparations for its genocide in Namibia. Descendants of the victims want a seat at the table. Now, a green hydrogen megaproject risks burying the past.
open.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Germany still hasn’t paid reparations for its genocide in Namibia. Now, a green hydrogen megaproject risks further burying that history – sidestepping the voices of victims’ descendants. I met some of them in Namibia. This is my report (Support my work on Substack).
open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...
open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...
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Good segment with Caitlin Dickerson and @petramolnar.com
For-Profit Immigration Surveillance Expands Under Trump
NYT reports that GEO Group’s surveillance tech is now helping the Trump Admin to deport immigrants through their tracking capabilities. The Atlantic’s Caitlin Dickerson says GEO is just “one of the ma...
www.msnbc.com
April 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Good segment with Caitlin Dickerson and @petramolnar.com
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„Wir können nicht weiter dazu schweigen, dass in Gaza palästinensisches Leben unmöglich gemacht wird“.
„Kontraproduktiv ist die gebetsmühlenartige Bekräftigung unserer Unterstützung der Zweistaatenlösung bei gleichzeitiger Carte blanche für eine israelische Regierung, die diese gerade untergräbt“.
„Kontraproduktiv ist die gebetsmühlenartige Bekräftigung unserer Unterstützung der Zweistaatenlösung bei gleichzeitiger Carte blanche für eine israelische Regierung, die diese gerade untergräbt“.
April 20, 2025 at 5:00 AM
„Wir können nicht weiter dazu schweigen, dass in Gaza palästinensisches Leben unmöglich gemacht wird“.
„Kontraproduktiv ist die gebetsmühlenartige Bekräftigung unserer Unterstützung der Zweistaatenlösung bei gleichzeitiger Carte blanche für eine israelische Regierung, die diese gerade untergräbt“.
„Kontraproduktiv ist die gebetsmühlenartige Bekräftigung unserer Unterstützung der Zweistaatenlösung bei gleichzeitiger Carte blanche für eine israelische Regierung, die diese gerade untergräbt“.
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Appalling that NATO, through its acquisition of Palantir's AI system, is boasting about using LLMs for war fighting capabilities. LLMs frequently get basic tasks like citations, historical events, or calculations wrong. This is not a technology that can be used for targeting.
April 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Appalling that NATO, through its acquisition of Palantir's AI system, is boasting about using LLMs for war fighting capabilities. LLMs frequently get basic tasks like citations, historical events, or calculations wrong. This is not a technology that can be used for targeting.
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New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner"
www.404media.co/leaked-palan...
www.404media.co/leaked-palan...
Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People
Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature pa...
www.404media.co
April 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner"
www.404media.co/leaked-palan...
www.404media.co/leaked-palan...
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BREAKING: Google loses the adtech case, has unlawful monopoly over advertising tech.
HUGE deal - it is the source of their monopoly profits - and now puts pressure on the EU to step up and finish the job.
www.theverge.com/news/650665/...
HUGE deal - it is the source of their monopoly profits - and now puts pressure on the EU to step up and finish the job.
www.theverge.com/news/650665/...
Google loses adtech monopoly case
A loss for Google.
www.theverge.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
BREAKING: Google loses the adtech case, has unlawful monopoly over advertising tech.
HUGE deal - it is the source of their monopoly profits - and now puts pressure on the EU to step up and finish the job.
www.theverge.com/news/650665/...
HUGE deal - it is the source of their monopoly profits - and now puts pressure on the EU to step up and finish the job.
www.theverge.com/news/650665/...
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Books are worthless which is why Meta needed to steal more than 7 million of them
April 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Books are worthless which is why Meta needed to steal more than 7 million of them
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New: We have details about two AI tools that CBP uses to scan social media to "enhance CBP tactical targeting":
www.404media.co/the-ai-tools...
www.404media.co/the-ai-tools...
The AI Tools CBP Is Using to Scan Social Media
Customs and Border Protection released more documents last week that show which AI-powered tools that agency has been using to identify people of interest.
www.404media.co
April 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
New: We have details about two AI tools that CBP uses to scan social media to "enhance CBP tactical targeting":
www.404media.co/the-ai-tools...
www.404media.co/the-ai-tools...
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No. Europe does not have to pick between US or Chinese tech. We can build our own alternatives.
www.ft.com/content/0a08...
www.ft.com/content/0a08...
Top Trump official tells Europe to choose between US or Chinese communications tech
FCC chair Brendan Carr urges ‘western allies’ to pick Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet company
www.ft.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
No. Europe does not have to pick between US or Chinese tech. We can build our own alternatives.
www.ft.com/content/0a08...
www.ft.com/content/0a08...
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“We have to be cautious with digital corporations because we have no real alternatives to the offering by the American digital industry,” said German finance minister Jörg Kukies.
If this is not an advert for #EuroStack I don’t know what is
t.co/hKPRriken2
If this is not an advert for #EuroStack I don’t know what is
t.co/hKPRriken2
April 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“We have to be cautious with digital corporations because we have no real alternatives to the offering by the American digital industry,” said German finance minister Jörg Kukies.
If this is not an advert for #EuroStack I don’t know what is
t.co/hKPRriken2
If this is not an advert for #EuroStack I don’t know what is
t.co/hKPRriken2
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The real question is--why do so many Americans believe the MAHA message, despite it being so obviously false?
And I'd argue--it's because that message offers both a sense of control in the face of uncertainty and a sense of moral superiority as a reward for good health.
Let me explain... 1/🧵
And I'd argue--it's because that message offers both a sense of control in the face of uncertainty and a sense of moral superiority as a reward for good health.
Let me explain... 1/🧵
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments
The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
www.medscape.com
April 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The real question is--why do so many Americans believe the MAHA message, despite it being so obviously false?
And I'd argue--it's because that message offers both a sense of control in the face of uncertainty and a sense of moral superiority as a reward for good health.
Let me explain... 1/🧵
And I'd argue--it's because that message offers both a sense of control in the face of uncertainty and a sense of moral superiority as a reward for good health.
Let me explain... 1/🧵