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4 weeks ago | 
cepa.org | Oona Lagercrantz |Ronan Murphy |Maciej Bukowski |Henrik Larsen
Stockholm recently hosted Techarena, bringing together 12,000 founders, investors, and policymakers under the theme “Becoming the Best in the World.” Contrary to the common narrative of Europe turning into a museum, having missed out on the digital revolution, Sweden offers a welcome counterpoint – while, in an era of transatlantic tensions, highlights the potential danger of depending on US tech.
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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | Hillary Brill |Oona Lagercrantz |Pablo Chavez |Christopher Cytera
It’s a conundrum. Leading AI developers such as OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google depend on text, images, and videos from the web to create their revolutionary large language models (LLMs). Restricting access to copyrighted work risks harming AI innovation and creating biased algorithms. But rightsholders fear for their livelihoods and demand compensation. How should policymakers respond? CEPA is launching a series on copyright and AI to address this challenge.
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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | Joshua Stein |Padraig Nolan |Oona Lagercrantz |Pablo Chavez
There is an old joke in pharmacology: the first pill costs $100 million, but the second pill costs 99 cents. A significant technological advance carries a huge, upfront cost and risk. China’s DeepSeek’s new Large Language Model R1 represents a case study of how second-mover companies can circumvent upfront research costs. DeepSeek’s success hit US tech companies hard because investors recognize this second-mover practice and know it is a real threat to American technological dominance.
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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | Padraig Nolan |Oona Lagercrantz |Pablo Chavez |Matthew Eitel
The new European Commission came to office vowing to end overregulation and promote competitiveness. Its new Competitiveness Compass proposes policies to achieve this goal. The Compass acknowledges, in the words of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, that Europe must “fix our weaknesses to regain competitiveness.” With 70% of the new value created in the global economy over the next decade expected to be digitally enabled, Europe wants to stimulate innovation.
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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | Oona Lagercrantz |Pablo Chavez |Matthew Eitel |David Kirichenko
How do you reconcile 1,000 stakeholder views on a fast-moving technology, predicted to define the 21st century, in just two weeks? Europe’s AI Office, empowered to enforce the AI Act – the world’s first law governing artificial intelligence systems – is struggling to come up with answers. As deadlines loom, the new legislation – which aims to set a global standard for trustworthy AI – is generating major conflicts and complaints.
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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | David Kirichenko |Oona Lagercrantz |Pablo Chavez |Matthew Eitel
Seemingly out of nowhere, a small Chinese startup called DeepSeek released one of the world’s most advanced AI models, rivaling those of OpenAI, Google, and other American tech leaders. Chinese engineers accomplished this feat at a fraction of the cost, using none of the expensive, cutting-edge and prohibited US chips. Wall Street reacted with a massive sell off of US AI companies. Star chipmaker Nvidia slid more than 17%, wiping out more than $600 billion of market value.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
cepa.org | Fiona Alexander |Adam Kovacevich |Oona Lagercrantz |Ronan Murphy
When the infant Internet took its first steps, the Clinton administration articulated a clear set of policies promoting a light touch role for government and a clear path for private sector leadership and innovation. The 1996 Telecommunications Act included the crucial “Section 230” providing liability protection. What was a nascent industry only a few decades earlier grew by 2021 to account for more than 10% of the US GDP. Today, no clear US tech policy exists.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Christopher Cytera |Ronan Murphy |Oona Lagercrantz |Anda Bologa
VyperCore, a promising British semiconductor startup, aims to reduce the growing energy consumption of data centers. The company has developed a bolt-on to existing processors which offers a 5x processing speed-up with no change in energy consumption. No changes to existing software are required, so that all investment in programming can be preserved. VyperCore secured £4m in funding last year and is now doubling the size of its team.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Aliide Naylor |Bill Echikson |Oona Lagercrantz |Marija Golubeva
In the Baltic states, as in Ukraine, Donald Trump’s November 5 election victory was marked by a deep breath followed by a focus on the positive. Baltic politicians (past and present) started to note the potential benefits. Former Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, in a recent interview with ERR, seemed to take the increasingly popular tack that the Biden administration has been milquetoast during the four years it has been in power, while also expressing cautious optimism.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Bill Echikson |Oona Lagercrantz |Marija Golubeva |Mike Martin
When the European Union enacted its revolutionary Digital Markets Act in 2022 – labeling key US companies as “gatekeepers” subject to strict antitrust rules – US officials stayed silent. Many agreed that Apple, Google, Meta, and other Silicon Valley behemoths stifled competition and needed to be reined in. Under President Joseph Biden, Big Tech faced pressure from Washington watchdogs.
