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Where artificial intelligence meets politics – legislation, questions of power and societal consequences.

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 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

An inspector in a blue vest covered in EU stars holds a magnifying glass over two glowing circuit brains bearing Anthropic and OpenAI logo stickers, labeled “Mythos 5” and “GPT-6 Astra”, with a digital padlock opening between them.

Security3 min

Anthropic grants Enisa access to cyber model Mythos 5

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

An EU star-ring stamp presses onto the ChatGPT logo, while smaller Reddit and Roblox logo stickers next to it receive the same stamp imprint, with a scale bearing a paragraph symbol in the background.

Legal3 min

EU Commission classifies ChatGPT as a large search engine

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

Bill Gates stands beside a large hourglass in which tiny office desks trickle down instead of sand; below it, a fenced field with a sign reading “Human Reserved” catches some of them.

AI-Economy8 min

Bill Gates on AI jobs: no plan, and a 19% entry-level gap

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 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

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

A round inspection seal reading “AI" is stamped onto a photo, surrounded by a ring of EU stars and the silhouette of a California bear.

Legal3 min

EU AI Regulation: Labeling Requirement for AI Content Starts

Hall of a European AI data center with long rows of illuminated GPU server racks and an EU flag on the far wall

AI-Economy4 min

EU tenders seven AI gigafactories worth 30 billion euros

Symbolic depiction of an Android smartphone with AI assistant app icons and an EU star circle in the background in front of the European Commission

AI-Policy4 min

EU forces Google to open Android for AI rivals

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

Smartphone showing WhatsApp with a ChatGPT contact on a café table in a European old town, cappuccino beside it.

Practice3 min

ChatGPT Returns to WhatsApp: Free Access Across the EU

Abstract illustration of a smartphone over a stylized EU map silhouette, separated by a geometric light barrier

AI-Policy4 min

Apple Intelligence remains blocked in the EU for the time being

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: an EU commissioner holds up a document reading "EU AI Act – August" in front of the European flag, with journalists and microphones before her.

AI6 min

EU AI Act: AI transparency obligations apply from August 2, 2026