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AI & Ethics
The infrastructure argument for digital sovereignty is over. The next front is the AI layer, and it is hardening faster than the cloud ever did. When the vendor that could not guarantee French data to the French Senate becomes the loudest seller of sovereignty, buying the label is not progress. It is the opposite.
Read ArticleEurope largest industrial company is migrating its most critical systems off AWS and onto a French provider, explicitly to keep them beyond the reach of foreign extraterritorial law. Read the detail and a playbook appears: classify by consequence, procure on jurisdiction, keep your options, move…
Read article →Bodmin based WebMate is the world's highest-ranked web hosting provider! WebMate has just been placed first among more than 30,000 hosting companies worldwide by HostList.io, the independent hosting directory. Gary Hall started building internet services from the town in 1996, when most of Cornwall…
View on LinkedIn →Every AI policy now leans on one sentence: a human reviews the output. In practice that often means a person glances at something plausible and clicks approve. That is ceremony, not review. Real review has to be designed, and the methods auditors have trusted for a century transfer directly.
Read article →Airbus moved its ERP to a French cloud and left its AI platform on AWS. Now Microsoft is selling "sovereign AI" with Europe's one frontier lab inside its tent. The cloud dependency took 15 years to harden. The AI layer is hardening faster, and the defaults are being set now.
View on Bluesky →A Microsoft executive told the French Senate it could not guarantee French public data would stay beyond American reach. That one answer collapsed a comfortable assumption held across Europe and Britain: that data residing in Europe is governed by Europe. Residency is geography. Sovereignty is…
Read article →Somewhere in your organisation this quarter, someone is choosing the default AI stack for a workflow. Nobody in the room is calling it a sovereignty decision. In five years it will turn out to have been one. That is the argument of my new piece, and it started in the comments under the Airbus post…
View on LinkedIn →AI-first inverts the old bargain: instead of the human adapting to the system, the system adapts to the human. The vision is compelling, but four hard questions sit inside it, and organisations that adopt the vision without answering them will get the failure modes rather than the prize.
Read article →The last interface is your own voice. Why should anyone need to understand the back-end systems ever again? Not the finance ledger's logic, not the CRM's data model, not which portal, which code, which mandatory field. Why is any of that still part of anyone's job who is not running those systems?…
View on LinkedIn →Replace expensive, privacy-invasive US software with powerful European open-source solutions. Full GDPR compliance, EU data residency, and up to 90% cost savings on Microsoft, Google, and SAP alternatives.
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