cyber/verso

The marginal build-out of artificial intelligence is no longer financed exclusively by internal cash generation.

Over roughly nine weeks, between June and August 2026, two lines of events ran in parallel.

A note before we start.

The American economy keeps growing, and in the first quarter most of that growth came from a single place.

A phone screen is a grid of icons.

cyber/verso exists to look, with a critical and analytical eye, at the intersection of technology, economy and digital society.

In mid-May 2026, one day apart, two telling things happened.

In recent days, the EU’s Age Verification application has been the subject of intense public discussion.

This article has been developed in the context of work carried out by ForumDD on the development of European digital public infrastructures.

Introduction Recently, the American Senate took a decisive step by approving, on June 17, 2025, the GENIUS Act (S.1582) with a bipartisan vote of 68 to 30.

TL;DR The recent U.S. tariff policy has made it clear that Europe must confront a deep technological dependence on external actors, a strategic vulnerability that threatens its competitiveness, autonomy, and security.