Women, Religion, and the Limits of Change Under Vision 2030 eyesonsaudi-arabia Amsterdam, August 23, 2026 – Ten years ago, a Saudi woman could not drive to work, open a bank account without a male relative’s signature, or watch a film in a public cinema — because there were no public cinemas. Today she can do…
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Inside Saudi Arabia’s Bet on a Post-Oil Future eyesonsaudi-arabia Amsterdam, August 23, 2026 – For nearly a century, Saudi Arabia’s story has been written in oil. It built the world’s largest exporter of crude, funded a welfare state, and gave a handful of royal decision-makers outsized influence over global energy markets. But in April 2016,…
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Inside Saudi Arabia’s Race to Build a Renewable Power System eyesonsaudi-arabia Amsterdam, August 23, 2026 – There is something almost poetic about the idea of the world’s largest oil exporter becoming a renewable energy powerhouse. Saudi Arabia has more sunlight hitting its soil than almost any country on Earth, and for decades that sunlight did…
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A BBC correspondent who spent decades reporting from Brazil and across Latin America is trading fieldwork for a hammock — but not, it turns out, for a fully unmanned newsroom. Here’s why his instincts are the most valuable asset the site has, and why “AI-driven” can mean something much better than “AI-alone.” eyesoneurope There’s something…
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Automation, Liability, and the Allure of Unfiltered AI Journalism eyesoneurope The prospect of establishing an entirely automated online news platform—where artificial intelligence scans raw data, writes polished articles, formats pages, and publishes around the clock without human intervention—is no longer science fiction. Modern Large Language Models (LLMs) can synthesize complex reports and generate readable prose…
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Mario Draghi’s Blueprint for a Continent That Refuses to Fall Behind The world that once made Europe rich no longer exists. Mario Draghi thinks that’s not a eulogy — it’s an opening line. eyesoneurope Amsterdam, July 23, 2026 – There’s a particular kind of warning that only lands when it comes from someone who has…
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eyesoneurope On July 16, 2026, in a conference hall in Munich, a Chinese company stood on stage in the literal birthplace of the automobile and unveiled a car that flies. It wasn’t an accident of scheduling. It was a statement. XPeng brought its “Land Aircraft Carrier” — the six-wheeled ground vehicle with a detachable two-seat…
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Can Local AI Actually Shrink AI’s Footprint? eyesoneurope Amsterdam, July 21, 2026 – Somewhere in Iowa, Virginia, or the Arizona desert, a warehouse the size of several football fields is drawing enough electricity to power a small city, and enough water to keep its servers from melting under the load of your last chatbot query.…
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What a Brazilian Plagiarism Scandal Teaches Us About AI and Academic Integrity eyesoneurope In mid-2023, a story out of Brazil went viral for an unexpected reason. It wasn’t about a student caught cheating with ChatGPT. It was the opposite: a professor had used ChatGPT itself to decide that a student’s final paper was AI-generated —…
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How AI Can Make Students More Productive — and More Creative Reflections inspired by Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel, founding president of the German University of Digital Science eyesoneurope Amsterdam, July 17, 2026 – There is a particular kind of institution that only becomes possible once you stop assuming a lecture hall is required. The German…
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