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The European position on AI, its funding and its market, judged from Madrid.
3 essays. All writing.
- Europe funded the layer that gets cheaper without itJune 22, 2026
On 19 June the Commission funded a sovereign frontier model. That is the one layer that commoditizes itself. The value already moved two layers up.
- The line the AI Act just drew through HRMay 19, 2026
The Commission's draft Annex III guidelines published today put two-sided talent platforms squarely inside the high-risk perimeter. The same engine, surfaced to the candidate, sits outside it. The verb is what changed.
- 151,700 AI professionals in Spain. 6,700 who build.April 20, 2026
El País counted us. The handful who actually train models are doing something different than the rest of the AI workforce — and what we're doing is changing in a way the headline misses.