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Oct 20, 20264 min read
Europe needs open-source to flourish
Europe needs to let its builders build. The bloc’s edge in AI isn’t making frontier models, it’s building on them, and open source is how. The ever-elusive pursuit of creating European champions in …
Yaël Ossowski
Oct 6, 20265 min read
How Europe Can Talk Donald Trump Out of a Diesel Export Ban
Instead of lobbying against a US diesel export ban, Brussels should offer to scrap the sustainability reporting rules that burden American energy exporters. Europe’s energy woes are hitting a breaking …
Yaël Ossowski
Oct 5, 20261 min read
Quebec voters wanted rid of clientélisme and a smaller state. They get their wish in a big way
On Forum News Daily, Yaël Ossowski gives an overview of the 2026 Quebec provincial election, as the Parti Québécois leads a minority government and the Parti Conservateur du Québec makes its grand …
Yaël Ossowski
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Oct 5, 20264 min read
Inside The Billion-Dollar Battle To Tax Your Predictions
Prediction markets are inching closer to SCOTUS intervention with a new circuit court ruling. When you take a position on the next Oscar winner for Best Actor or the Super Bowl MVP, who sets the rules …
Yaël Ossowski
Oct 2, 20264 min read
Enfin, les Québécois s'ouvrent à un dégraissage « conservateur » de l'État
Quelques jours avant les élections provinciales au Québec, je suis frappé par l’état des lieux. Après plus d’une décennie d’un système replié sur lui-même, où l’on ne remettait …
Yaël Ossowski
Oct 1, 20264 min read
Trump Smashes the 'Paced' Frontier AI Race With a Dose of MAGA Optimism
Based on the latest bewildering statements from the largest frontier AI modelmakers, OpenAI and Anthropic, humanity is either tinkering on the edge of cyber disaster or on the precipice of a new …
Yaël Ossowski
Sep 30, 20261 min read
Superintelligence memory squeeze driven by decentralized AI
Consumer Choice Center Deputy Director Yaël Ossowski on Schwab Network’s Trading 360 to discuss Micron’s stock prospects and why demand for memory in data centers and consumers’ …
Yaël Ossowski
Sep 24, 20261 min read
AI Doomerism Is About Liability | Fox 5 DC
Yael Ossowski joins FOX 5 DC to speak about the AI race, effective altruism and the problem AI doomers pose for innovation. https://www.fox5dc.com/video/fmc-d8b2pew121v1tudh
Yaël Ossowski
Sep 17, 20269 min read
A radical healthcare idea: insurance should only be insurance
Rather than use insurance as intended, we use it for routine care. Is this the core of the problem? A simple visit to a primary care doctor costs a patient anywhere from $27 to $600. The actual cost …
Yaël Ossowski
Sep 16, 20266 min read
Now is the time to think about AI privacy
Your chatbot logs are always at risk of exposure. Here are some practical tips to increase your AI privacy. This week, thanks to blockbuster reporting on 404 media, we have some insight into the dire …
Yaël Ossowski
Sep 16, 20261 min read
It's hard not to see AI panic as regulatory capture
Should we be concerned about AI’s exponential progress? Or is this some kind of gambit to secure enough compute before massive IPOs and favorable rules from Washington? Consumer Choice Center …
Yaël Ossowski
Sep 15, 20264 min read
The ‘AI Slowdown’ Is Good For Tech CEOs, Not For You
Regulatory capture strategy doesn’t benefit AI users and will make us all worse off. Over the summer, the populist cry for a global AI “pause,” which started among small activist groups, was …
Yaël Ossowski
Sep 9, 20267 min read
Trump the Baby Boomer Accelerationist
Trump is bullish where it counts. Let’s go inside the accelerationist presidency, and where it still fails consumers. The Orange Man is an economic machine just by virtue of being. The …
Yaël Ossowski
Sep 3, 20264 min read
Could NVIDIA's purchase of Hugging Face boost AI sovereignty in the EU?
The expansion of the open-source AI ecosystem could be a boon for the EU’s efforts to promote tech sovereignty. On Thursday, American chipmaker NVIDIA announced they will buy the artificial …
Yaël Ossowski
Aug 28, 20261 min read
How Tariffs Will Increase the Prices of your Tech Products
Tariffs are once again on the table between Canada and the United States. For the average consumer, how will this impact the cost of their tech devices and tech products? Consumer Choice Center Deputy …
Yaël Ossowski
Aug 19, 20264 min read
Fight fire with fire: how open source AI models can help EU’s cybersecurity
Europe can have sovereign AI to achieve its goals for security and safety, but it needs to boost open source to make it happen. Europeans, much like others across the world, are increasingly …
Yaël Ossowski
Aug 15, 20264 min read
The ‘dangerous’ AI models are the ones saving us
When the next cyberattack hits a Fortune 500 company, or ransomware locks the files of a regional hospital system, which artificial intelligence tools will information technology experts use to ward …
Yaël Ossowski
Aug 14, 20261 min read
Social media on trial for "addictive design" because nothing else sticks
Meta is being sued for “addictive design” by some state attorneys general. Social media tort. What’s the ultimate goal? Apart from massive $$, states want time limits, finite …
Yaël Ossowski
Aug 7, 20264 min read
Rage against housing software won’t lower rent
In Massachusetts, like so many other states, housing affordability is one of the top political issues that will reshape the elections come this November. Rather than examining their own policies or …
Yaël Ossowski
Jul 24, 20261 min read
Antitrust, Consumer Habits & Other Headwinds Facing Media Mergers | Yaël on Schwab Network
Media companies must compete for our eyeballs and attention. But they should do that and compete on an open field rather than subject them to antitrust lawsuits and courtrooms, where consumers …
Yaël Ossowski