Accelerating AI adoption in Europe (openai.com)

OpenAI and Allied for Startups published the Hacktivate AI report—a set of 20 actionable ideas generated at a recent Brussels policy hackathon—to speed broad-based AI adoption across Europe and strengthen the bloc’s competitiveness. The event convened 65 participants from EU institutions, national governments, enterprises, SMEs, startups and AI experts to design practical measures such as an Individual AI Learning Account (Proposal 1), an AI Champions Network for SME uptake (Proposal 3), a shared European GovAI Hub for public-sector resources (Proposal 12), and a push for “Relentless Harmonisation” of rules to advance the Digital Single Market (Proposal 15). The release arrives days before the European Commission’s expected Apply AI Strategy, positioning the report as a near-term input to policy. For practitioners and policymakers the report’s significance is twofold: it prioritizes operational enablers—skills, shared infrastructure, and regulatory harmonization—over abstract regulation, and it highlights uneven sectoral adoption (IT and finance leading; other industries lagging). That implies targeted interventions (training, SME outreach, gov-focused platforms) can materially raise adoption rates. The report builds on OpenAI’s EU work (OpenAI Academy’s 2M learners, GP AI Code of Practice endorsement, partnerships with firms like Sanofi and startups such as Parloa/Pigment) and signals a coordinated push to translate Europe’s AI ambition into deployable tools, public-sector platforms and market-ready policies.