A running record of what I’m reading, thinking about, and building, mostly around EU digital and sustainability regulation, AI governance, payments, and political economy. New pieces appear below.
Trump took Silicon Valley to Beijing, the US reopened the chip tap, and Europe watched. A reading log on US-China-EU tech geopolitics, the Draghi report one year on, and where the money is actually going.
From the stone money of Yap to ECB holding limits: why the design of a digital euro is a political choice about who keeps the ledger, not a technical one.
Two EU omnibus packages rewrote the AI and sustainability rulebooks in the space of months. The hidden cost isn’t the rules themselves, it’s what constant rule-changing does to the organisations trying to comply.
A working note on my current paper: when the UK left the EU it didn’t just leave a market, it left an oversight regime. What happens to lobbying transparency when the supranational referee walks off the pitch and the only rulebook left is a famously weak one?
From Stanislav Petrov’s bunker to autonomous warfare: how AI complicates the Cold War doctrines of deterrence and Mutual Assured Destruction.
AI as the new electricity, or as a new nuclear power? A case against the false dichotomy between techno-utopia and techno-dystopia.
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