Skip to content
Beckmann
DeutschNewsletter

33 stories

Germany & AI

How Germany handles artificial intelligence – ecosystem, regulation, economy and whether it keeps pace.

A mechanical hummingbird made of circuit boards sits on an official seal with the federal eagle, next to an Aleph Alpha logo sticker

AI-Models3 min

Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri – open AI model for authorities

Illustration of a surveillance camera with a red scan grid over a train station hall, marking a walking person like a passport-photo frame, next to an open law book with a paragraph symbol

AI-Policy4 min

Bundestag and Bundesrat approve AI surveillance by the Federal Police

A robotic arm reaches out from a silhouette of a fir forest towards a glowing picture frame, with a map of Europe hinted at in the background.

AI-Models3 min

Black Forest Labs from Freiburg presents robotics AI FLUX 3 Action

An oversized scale: euro coins and banknotes pile up on one pan, a Bitkom logo sticker next to a small server rack sits on the other – the money side sinks low while a red arrow points upward in the background.

AI-Economy3 min

Bitkom: German companies increase AI spending by 48 percent

Two interlocking official seal stamps merge over a stylized map outline connecting Europe and North America, with a small research building on a base of stacked file folders in front

AI-Economy4 min

Aleph Alpha merges with Cohere – Heidelberg only research now

A laptop screen shows a video conference, colorful speech bubbles in different languages rise from a headset, and a DeepL logo sticker is stuck on the laptop cover.

Practice3 min

DeepL Voice now translates meetings in your own voice

A magnifying glass enlarges a red warning symbol over the empty legal-notice field of a job ad on a laptop screen, next to an ID card with a small padlock icon and an application folder.

Security3 min

Consumer advice center warns of deceptively real AI job ads

A mask with a printed AI symbol holds a laptop, from whose screen a fish hook pulls a crypto coin off a developer's desk.

Security4 min

FBI warns of hacker group Waterplum: disguise as AI company

A hand hands a gold-colored server tower made of euro coins across the outline of Germany's map, with a wind turbine and an oil barrel in the background representing energy and industrial projects.

AI-Economy4 min

UAE invest 40 billion euros in German AI data centers

From the windows of a German office building, glowing circuit vines grow, and in front of it a scale balances between an upward arrow and a warning triangle.

AI-Economy4 min

Bitkom: 57 percent of German companies are now using AI

A Google logo sticker is affixed to a ballot paper, from which speech bubbles of varying size grow over two ballot boxes – one overflowing, the other nearly empty.

AI-Policy3 min

Google shows AI answers less frequently in elections

Several humanoid robots walk across a red runway in front of the silhouette of the Berlin radio tower.

AI-Economy3 min

IFA Berlin: China presents almost every second exhibitor

A scale of justice balances a stack of photographs against a grid of pixels, in front of the silhouette of a courthouse.

Legal4 min

BGH hears photographer lawsuit against AI dataset LAION

A stamp bearing the federal eagle presses a seal onto a computer chip, next to a door sign showing the logos of BSI and the Federal Network Agency, with Berlin's TV tower in the background

Security4 min

AISI Germany: Institute examines the safety of AI models

Wind turbines feed a server cabinet on the Baltic coast, with a circle of stars on the horizon behind it

AI-Economy3 min

Schwarz Group Builds €5.6 Billion AI Data Center Near Rostock

A hand covers the blinking red recording light of glasses bearing the Meta logo, while a red stop symbol appears in the lens.

Security3 min

Meta closes recording light gap of its AI glasses again

A winner's podium, with the third step adorned by a glowing microchip on a stack of documents with an official seal, while the first and second steps remain empty.

AI-Policy3 min

Wildberger lowers Germany's AI target to third place

A server rack with its door half open and half locked with a large padlock, in front of it a document sheet with a paragraph symbol and several redacted (blacked-out) lines of text.

AI-Policy4 min

Federal Government Eases Reporting Obligations for Data Centers

A stack of files with official forms is overlaid by a digital grid, while a beam of light highlights a person from a queue.

AI-Policy4 min

Germany brings AI law for asylum procedures to Bundestag

A lectern stands in front of a stylized outline map of Germany marked at Bremen, surrounded by many small abstract figures streaming in from different directions, next to a large speech bubble with a paragraph symbol.

Research4 min

Bremen hosts IJCAI-ECAI: first time in Germany in 43 years

A hand places a flag with the OpenAI logo into an outline map of Germany at the Berlin TV tower, next to a portrait excerpt of Sam Altman.

AI-Economy3 min

OpenAI Plans Second Office in Berlin – Data Center in Discussion

A wrench with a hidden trapdoor drops golden keys onto a conveyor belt made of shipping containers, one of the containers is torn open and glows red.

Security3 min

LiteLLM attack hits over 2500 companies worldwide

A cooling tower with a Uniper logo sticker releases server racks instead of steam from its opening, next to it a power pylon with a direct cable connection to the servers

AI-Economy3 min

Uniper transforms ten power plants into AI data centers

A construction crane holds an oversized one-euro coin with an embedded chip above the blueprint of a data centre hall, with the outline of Germany against the EU flag on the right and logo stickers of Microsoft, AWS and Google on the left

AI-Economy4 min

Germany raises AI Gigafactory funding to one billion euros

Ten rockets of different sizes rise above a map of Germany; the largest carries the Helsing logo, smaller ones the logos of Celonis, Neura Robotics, n8n, DeepL and Black Forest Labs, next to them a price arrow points steeply upwards.

AI-Economy7 min

The 10 Most Valuable AI Companies from Germany

A surveillance camera watches schematic stick-figure people crossing the busy plaza in front of a Berlin subway station.

Society3 min

Berlin Police Launches AI Surveillance at Kottbusser Tor

Digital display board at SAP's corporate headquarters in Walldorf shows spreadsheets and data visualizations in front of the SAP logo

AI-Economy2 min

SAP completes Prior Labs acquisition: 1 billion euros for AI lab

Scale of justice between a glowing AI search bar and printed newspaper pages, with an official seal in the German national colors in the background

Legal3 min

Google: Media supervision classifies AI search as content provider

Four-panel chart of Soofi S's pretraining dynamics across 27 trillion tokens: learning rate, language-modeling loss, gradient norm, and throughput. Source: Soofi team, technical report (arXiv 2607.09424, CC BY 4.0).

Research3 min

Soofi S: German Consortium Releases Open AI Model

Abstract illustration of a scale of justice next to a fragmented digital speech bubble symbol above a court column

Legal3 min

Google: Court holds company liable for AI errors

Abstract geometric illustration of a gavel and stylized sound waves made of glass and marble, symbolizing a legal dispute over AI-generated music

Legal4 min

GEMA Wins Music Lawsuit Against Suno in Munich Court

A half-empty German data center with long rows of server racks, many slots dark and empty, a small German flag on a cabinet, and the Frankfurt skyline at dusk through the windows.

AI7 min

Germany's biggest AI missteps: asleep and scattered

Photorealistic depiction: in an empty Berlin exhibition hall, a technician on a lift removes a banner reading "GITEX AI Europe"; the Berlin radio tower is visible in the background.

AI4 min

GITEX AI Europe in Berlin Ends After Just Two Editions