The EU should cut actual red tape, not AI safeguards Europe's path to AI competitiveness lies in cutting red tape that hinders startups, not in removing AI safeguards.

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Important perspective from Risto Uuk and Sten Tamkivi: EU AI competitiveness won’t come from gutting safety rules, but from tackling the structural barriers holding back startups while leaving sensible oversight in place. Unglamorous, difficult, but essential. Worth a read. 👇

As always with extended deterrence, the two-part trick will be convincing potential adversaries and (harder still) allies of this seriousness.

Macron open to deploying French nuclear weapons in Europe – DW – 05/14/2025 French President Emmanuel Macron stressed that any shared nuclear deterrence would not come at the expense of France's own defense capabilities.

Macron says he is "ready to open a discussion" about stationing French nuclear weapons in European allies. If he is serious about stationing and about redefining French vital interests to include a "European dimension," it could reshape the deterrence landscape in Europe. www.dw.com/en/macron-op...

Excellent work by Ryan Christenson on Russia’s 'exotic' nuclear toolkit examining not just the systems themselves, but the strategic and bureaucratic logic behind them. Bureaucratic politics and socio-technical forces matter - a lot!

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