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EU AI procurement may matter more than the next lab headline

Europe's AI market will be shaped by more than frontier-model drama. The vendors that become easiest to document, approve, and rebuy inside public procurement flows may gain the stickiest advantage.

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Idris ValePolicy & Institutions Editor
#EU AI Act#AI procurement#Public sector AI#Europe
Editorial illustration of a European procurement map with compliance gates, institutional blocks, and AI vendor pathways converging into approved lanes.
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Story / POLICY_02Regulation sets the floor. Procurement determines which suppliers become easy to buy repeatedly.
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