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PARTICIPATION IN AI GOVERNANCE IN MLOPS MEETUP HELSINKI
On April 7th, DIESL PhD student and team member Ana Paula Gonzalez Torres will take part in the MLOps Meetup. Ana Paula will contribute with her expertise in AI governance to the question of how to implement governance to AIOps/MLOps. The event is organised by the Helsinki MLOps Community and will take place at the…
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NEW WORKING PAPER: MASTODON USER STUDY ON THE POTENTIALS AND LIMITS OF INTEROPERABILITY
A new paper titled “Does Digital Platform Interoperability Deliver on Its Expectations? Evidence from User Switching on Mastodon” by Philipp Riederle has been published on SocArXiv. Abstract Users of centralised digital platforms (e.g., X, Instagram, TikTok) have little choice but to accept incumbent providers’ conduct or forgo participation. Digital platform interoperability is widely proposed as…
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NEW ARTICLE: HOW TECH GIANTS’ BUYOUTS LIMIT MARKET ENTRY OF NEW COMPANIES
A new article titled “Killers on the road of emerging start-ups—implications for market entry and venture capital financing” by Heli Koski, Otto Kässi, Fabian Braesemann has been published by Industrial and Corporate Change. Abstract The competitive effects of acquisitions made by large US-based technology companies have come under increased regulatory scrutiny over recent years because…
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THESIS PRIZE AND BLOG POST: HOW COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURES REFLECT CONCENTRATION OF POWER
For his master’s thesis, DIESL team member Kaarlo Liukkonen was awarded a Rajapinta’s 2025 thesis grant. The work, titled “Competing clouds: U.S.-China tech rivalry and the geoeconomic turn”, analyses job advertisement data to measure cloud demand in 32 countries and to what extent there has been a “geoeconomic turn” in cloud computing. The study finds…
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NVIDIA GPU supply chain
An interactive NVIDIA GPU map that visualizes its complex global supply chain used for teaching of the course “International Relations and Technology” at Aalto University.
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Drone strikes on Gulf data centres: How geopolitics will shape the fallout
Vili Lehdonvirta Recent reporting indicates that Iranian drone strikes damaged Amazon Web Services data centres in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, causing disruption to millions of people and businesses in the Gulf region. Iranian state media claims that the data centres were deliberately targeted. This appears to be the first time a country’s armed…
Digital Economic Security Lab
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta
Aalto University and University of Oxford