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• Post #4154806

  As I wrote in my The Economist letter in March, China's heavily regulated LLM industry is catching up on US largely unregulated industry (Kimi 3 has near parity with Claude Opus 5). Safety standards didn't stop Chinese innovation. The EU must reconsider its assumption that deregulation = innovation.

• Post #3859809

  "Extremely unpleasant" meetings. Former Irish Data Protection Commissioner on discussion with European colleagues. https://www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/2025/june/eu-data-meetings-sometimes-politicised--dixon/

• Post #3857991

  Ireland's Minister for Enterprise met Meta to discuss the "digital agenda for Ireland's EU presidency" at a private dinner at the US ambassador's residence. It was hosted "in partnership with Meta". https://www.independent.ie/business/minister-dined-with-meta-lobbyists-at-us-ambassadors-residence-amid-us-drive-to-soften-europes-policing-of-big-tech/a/158490444.html

• Post #3713851

  Shoshana Zuboff, Mariana Mazzucato, Alberto Alemanno, and 60 other leading academics write in today’s The Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/8a1d69a7-f42d-4de5-96bf-3c3492260a2f

• Post #3665657

  Important from prominent EPP MEPs Andreas Schwab & Pablo Arias: "Concerns regarding Ireland's historical enforcement of the GDPR and its economic alignment with large non-EU technology firms raise serious questions about its capacity to neutrally oversee these negotiations".

• Post #3486623

  Tomorrow, Ireland takes over as EU Council Presidency for six months, when the EU is renegotiating tech and tax rules. In The Guardian this morning I argue it must recuse itself from these discussions because it is so captured by big tech. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/30/ireland-big-tech-lapdog-eu-presidency-digital-sovereignty

• Post #2879351

  I'm speaking Re:Publica in Berlin next week How do we avoid dystopia? Session details --> https://re-publica.com/de/session/how-we-avoid-dystopia

• Post #2879350

  We are releasing Verity a tool to minimise false LLM claims and sources. It can run on cheap, old hardware. Verity's code is now published for anyone to use, test, adapt, and improve. You can use it and build upon it for free. https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/verity-mcp/

• Post #2879349

  A nice piece on Verity, our newly released tool to minimise false LLM claims for locally hosted AI. Thanks gor spreading the word. Verity is free to use and adapt. https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/13/see-through-local-ai-lies-with-irish-eyes/5239911

• Post #2879348

  I’m on stage at Re: Publica in Berlin (virtually) right now, and speaking (in person) on stage tomorrow Thanks Kristin Siebert for the photo.

• Post #2879347

  This is not an advertisement The participating tech companies push self-loathing and suicide into children’s feeds, the sponsoring law firm works for TikTok and Meta, and the expert is the person who sued all other EU enforcers to not act against Meta. https://legal-news.mhc.ie/14/1251/may-2026/invite(7).asp?sid=bb62a085-ba4e-4d2e-8c8d-545c54fa0fd9

• Post #2879346

  My keynote at re:publica 2026: Digital dystopia and Europe's Ireland problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cneLoJ0UPxQ

• Post #2879345

  We have released updates to Verity Better model mix, logprob transparency largely fixed, and better documentation to help people adapt it to their self-hosted or cloud AI. https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/verity-mcp/

• Post #2879344

  Video of my re:publica26 Berlin keynote Europe can't trust Ireland on digital (Ireland can't trust itself!) Europe's children & democracy & innovators & security are under attack To avoid tech dystopia, EU must confront its "Ireland problem" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cneLoJ0UPxQ #rp26 re:publica

• Post #2879343

  We have released several updates to Verity, our tool to minimise AI hallucinations. v0.3.0 --> https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/verity-mcp/ Free for researchers, campaigners, legislators, litigators, reporters to use, adapt, and improve.

• Post #2879342

  AI race: US leads. How far behind are China and Europe? Our plot of 2 years of AI Epoch Capability Index scores (a composite of LLM test scores) Note: EU firms acquired by US firms counted as US. Data source https://epoch.ai/data/benchmark_data.zip (20 May 2026)

• Post #2879341

  I spoke to @alejandrotauber publisher of @euobserver about how Europe's "Ireland problem" could lead to tech disaster for our children, industry, and politics https://euobserver.com/218368/dublin-cant-trust-itself-to-do-the-right-thing-why-the-next-irish-eu-presidency-should-recuse-itself-from-tech-talks/

• Post #2273672

  It is good to see CnaM do something. However, this fight over what the off switch for dangerous algorithms looks like on Meta is crazy - the algorithms should not be on in the first place: The GDPR, art 8 (parental consent - where kids are involved) and art 9 (prohibition on processing intimate data without explicit consent) already mean that the algorithms should be off by default already.

• Post #1595608

  Later today, at the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) EU Affairs Committee, I will call for Ireland to recuse itself from all digital issues during its EU Council Presidency. Ireland’s regulatory sabotage of EU data law has exposed Europe’s children to serious mental harm. https://www.iccl.ie/press-release/ireland-recuse-eu-presidency-digital-files-enforce/

• Post #984589

  My message to Ursula von der Leyen in The Guardian this morning: America’s bet on AI is now so gigantic that every MAGA voter’s pension is bound to the bubble’s precarious survival. If she grabs Trump where it hurts, Europe will win this fight. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/17/europe-donald-trump-ai-bubble-us-economy-eu

• Post #984588

  Temu booked €1.7B in Europe through Dublin. But what about tax? Documents indicate that the "Double Irish" is back. The Irish State claims ignorance. Clip - See exchange in the Irish Parliament yesterday between Sinéad Gibney and Minister Jack Chambers.

• Post #984587

  Apple + Microsoft + Eli Lilly paid 46% of all corporate tax to Ireland in 2024 See note from the Ireland's Fiscal Advisory Council. - https://www.fiscalcouncil.ie/new-council-member-appointed-to-the-irish-fiscal-advisory-council-2/ - https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2026/02/19/three-multinational-companies-paid-close-to-50-of-states-corporate-tax-in-2024/

• Post #984586

  Before The Smiths there was Patrick Kavanagh

• Post #984585

  @kalvin0x8d0@social.obulou.xyz share a link please

• Post #984584

  Trump inadvertently boosts the Green energy agenda https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-wars-renewable-energy-asia-4b5fe0693ce5816472c905db85f7da6e

• Post #984583

  My conversation (long) with Oles Andriychuk on Tech, Competition, Privacy, Power is now live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIkcXnFTXX4

• Post #984582

  My testimony at the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) Justice Committee yesterday evening: new documents reveal serious problems in the recruitment process for Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner.

• Post #895167

  Job opportunity We are hiring an AI expert to join ICCL Enforce https://www.iccl.ie/digital-data/enforce-is-hiring-ai-expert/

• Post #857610

  Ireland is blocking ICCL from taking the cases it needs to take to protect vulnerable children against dangerous and addictive social media companies. https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/2026/03/27/irish-law-blocking-actions-on-behalf-of-children-over-addictive-social-media-apps/

• Post #785626

  This afternoon I will speak at the Oireachtas Justice Committee. I will share new information obtained by ICCL about the latest Data Protection Commissioner recruitment process, in which a former Meta spokesperson was appointed Ireland's new Data Protection Commissioner. https://www.iccl.ie/press-release/iccl-reveals-information-about-dpc-recruitment-process/