Patrick Grady

NEW: Excited to be launching a new substack🔥 We believe Europe’s glass is half full. DG Progress is here show all the ways we are already a global tech leader, and what more our innovators need to succeed.

"Von der Leyen said she didn’t want to pre-empt the findings of a panel of experts currently deliberating on child safety online." Also Von der Leyen: "I believe we should give our children more time to become resilient" No pressure, panellists...

Super talk from @anilkseth: “If we think Claude is conscious but AlphaFold isn’t, that says more about us than it does about AI... The brain isn't just a computer made of meat... " Panicked policymakers and solipsist softwaremakers should listen in 👇 ted.com/talks/anil_set…

EU’s internal think tank community-noted, that’s gotta be a first

The EU, as ever, went into full PANIC MODE when Mythos arrived. The sober voices are cybersecurity experts, who have long been using AI to find bugs in sloppy software.

Brutal but true

The scoreboard to date on AI's effects on labor markets: "Still no statistically significant relationship between AI and unemployment or employment growth." a16z's David George on the "AI job apocalypse" fantasy: a16z.news/p/the-ai-job-a…

Is AI killing jobs? New data shows that, more than three years after the release of ChatGPT, there is no evidence for a significant impact of AI on overall employment in the UK. In our new report, we break down the labour force into different occupations and use four measures of AI exposure to determine how likely they are to be affected by the technology. Surprisingly, occupations with higher exposure to AI have grown faster than least-exposed ones, not slower. This holds across all four measures, and across two different data sources. The wage picture is different. Pay in AI-exposed occupations has lagged the rest of the labour market since 2019. But that gap opened three years before ChatGPT, which makes AI an unlikely candidate for the observed wage compression. This flattening of the wage structure is visible across the within-occupation distribution and strongest at the top quartile, which is consistent with labour market dynamics that predate generative AI.

At a time when Poland is about to overtake the UK in GDP per capita, we ought to heed their advice on how to grow an economy ...

🤦‍♂️ The EU suffers from its left hand not speaking to the right. It's absurd that most officials are working to simplify the rulebook while some colleagues quietly go about writing new chapters

Last week, POLITICO published a Polish non-paper urging the EU to use the upcoming Digital Fitness Check not to create new rules but to enforce existing ones (DSA, DMA, Data Act, AI Act). What do they recommend?

🌉 We spoke with Benedict Evans, renowned tech analyst and seasoned venture partner, about the EU’s regulatory positioning, how laws impact product designs, and the importance of even AI adoption. ❓How is Brussels’ approach to regulation, especially in the digital space, viewed from potential investors and partners across the world? 🎤 "When I talk to people in the Valley, there’s a perception that a lot of this is protectionism, which I don’t think anyone in Europe thinks it is. The other thing is it’s such a big cultural conflict and an execution conflict. Americans are used to rules-based systems where you’re told what the rules are. They would come to Europe, and they thought the answer would be, “As long as you follow the principles, it’ll be fine.” The problem is, if you’re Apple or Meta making changes to comply with new laws, you think this follows the principles, and you ask the EU for guidance and don’t get any feedback. Then they’d go home, wake up, and get an email that said, “Nope, you’re in breach, here’s a billion-dollar fine.” That gets a bunch of people in the Valley going to D.C., saying, “This is just bad faith. We tried to follow the rules.” Check out our full interview with Benedict, here 👉 dgprogress.eu/p/dg-progress-…

EU officials checking the Draghi report for recommendations on new digital regulations

Who do Europe's tech protectionists represent? Not the average European, according to a new poll by BSA/YouGov. Consumers care far more about the quality, price, and security of their tech than where it comes from. techpost.bsa.org/2026/04/22/bsa…

🍪 Browser-level cooking settings may sound appealing, but they will devastate the online ads model European SMEs rely on. We list 5 reasons it won't work (and what the Commission should do instead) here: progresschamber.org/insights/eu-co… mlex.com/mlex/articles/…

🚨 April’s newsletter is LIVE 🚨 Winter is over! We have (mostly) sunny news to share. In this edition: 🏗️ Investment continues to flood into the European AI scene ⛽ The 28th Regime landed… to mixed reviews 🌉 Renowned tech analyst Benedict Evans chats with us about Europe’s tech scene 🛣️ We’re hitting the road! A few events the DG Progress team will be at in the coming months. 🪟EU-INC’s @andreasklinger wins our inaugural meme of the month! open.substack.com/pub/dgprogress…

What do healthy tech ecosystem vitals look like? Look no further than Euclyd. ⚡️ Its AI chip is claimed to be 100x more efficient than current GPU leaders. The Dutch startup was founded in 2024 by former ASML director Bernardo Kastrup, and its board features a former ASML CEO and the founder of Elastic (a Dutch AI company). 🔁 This is a sign of a healthy tech ecosystem: ASML (itself a product of Philips and ASM) created the talent, capital, and network that Euclyd is now recycling to generate the next wave of innovation. The Fairchildren (from Fairchild Semiconductor) and PayPal Mafia spawned the family trees of successful Silicon Valley start-ups in the 60s and early 00s. Could ASMLalum's do the same for Europe? 🚀 techfundingnews.com/euclyd-100m-ai…