European Investment Fund (EIF) provided funds for the Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions through an Israeli venture capital fund.

Paragon was used by Italian authorities to spy on journalists, humanitarian workers and business executives, in what is known as the Paragon scandal. Crucially, EIF belongs to the European Investment Bank (EIB), a financial institution owned by the EU member states.

the very mechanism people proposed to transcend human limitations – training on AI-generated data to break free from the finite supply of human knowledge – is mathematically proven to destroy the model’s representation of reality.