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Educational initiative equips Swedish retailers for new EU requirements

2026-04-14
In the coming years, new legislation will take effect across the EU requiring newly manufactured goods—such as textiles, furniture, and electronics—to be equipped with a Digital Product Passport (DPP)...
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New partner program accelerates AI transformation

2026-04-08
Accelerate your AI journey is a new transformation program for AI Sweden's partners. The goal is to create the conditions to move forward from the initial experimentation with AI. "Through the program...
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LeakPro 2 expands successful AI privacy assessment tool

2026-03-18
LeakPro 2 aims at creating a tool that not only will quantify the risk that a model could leak sensitive data, but also the impact such a leakage could have. The work builds on the successful results...
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AI - a key component of future defense capabilities: AI Sweden participates in state visit to Poland

2026-03-17
The impact of AI on preparedness and defense capabilities was a key topic during a business delegation in which AI Sweden participated. Held in conjunction with the Swedish King and Queen's state...
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New international initiative to empower 13,000 workers with critical future AI skills

2026-03-17
AI Sweden will lead a comprehensive training initiative to strengthen the AI skills of 13,000 workers in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The project, which is part of the...
Moa Tivell next to a DN Debatt quote about AI's impact on young people's jobs.

Op-ed: AI is changing the labor market landscape for youth - urgent need for targeted measures

2026-03-16
Researchers, in collaboration with the Labor Market's AI Council, are presenting a new study in DN Debatt today that illustrates how generative AI is reshaping the Swedish labor market. The results...
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AI Sweden’s Impact Report 2025: A year of collective value creation

2026-03-12
We are now releasing the Impact Report 2025. AI Sweden continues to grow and the impressive engagement in the partner network and across the whole ecosystem demonstrates how collective efforts, shared...
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OpenEuroLLM takes the next step for European AI sovereignty

2026-03-11
It has now been a year since the launch of OpenEuroLLM, one of Europe's most ambitious AI initiatives. By uniting 20 leading research institutions and companies, the project has, during its first year...
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Partner network expands with six new members

2026-02-25
Mälarenergi, the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (SSM), Piteå Municipality, Östersund Municipality, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and the National Board of Forensic Medicine (RMV) are joining AI...
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AI trends seminar 2026: From vision to reality – shaping the next wave of AI

2026-02-23
The AI landscape is moving beyond the experimental stage. During this year’s AI Trend Seminar 2026, experts from organizations including Google Cloud, Recorded Future, RISE, and Zenseact gathered to...
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AI Sweden launches educational series for data-driven leadership

2026-02-23
Start Your Strategic Data Journey is a new resource from AI Sweden. It shifts the focus away from the technology itself and toward a crucial enabler: an organization's data. – As AI technologies...
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AI Sweden on the Government’s National AI Strategy: "High ambitions demand bold leadership and substantial investment"

2026-02-20
The Swedish government today presented a national AI strategy featuring ambitious goals for the country. Mikael Ljungblom, Director of Public Policy and International Relations at AI Sweden, welcomes...
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New report on AI's impact on the labor market: skills development more vital than urgent transition

2026-02-17
Artificial intelligence’s structural impact on the Swedish labor market is primarily characterized by evolving job tasks and new skills requirements—rather than the disappearance of jobs. This is...
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Two years of AI for Impact: Equipping civil society for the future

2026-02-11
After two years, hundreds of meetings, and a series of tangible prototypes, AI Sweden’s AI for Impact project has come to a close. Funded by Google.org, the initiative aimed to bridge the gap between...
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New training program to strengthen retail sector’s capabilities

2026-02-10
AI is reshaping retail business models and competitiveness, impacting everything from warehousing and distribution to customer relationships. Now, Svensk handel (Swedish Commerce) and AI Sweden are...
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First batch of international scale-up program successfully concludes as next application phase begins

2026-02-06
The first cohort of the Growth and Scaling through AI (GSAI) program has officially concluded, marking a successful start to this cross-border initiative for scaling startups across European markets...
Anders Krifors and Lorna Bartram

Large language models to analyze healthcare incidents

2026-02-05
Can large language models be used to strengthen patient safety? Results from Region Västmanland suggest that the answer is yes. "Healthcare has collected a goldmine of information that we now see an...
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Column: Insights from the world’s premier AI conference

2026-01-23
In early December 2025, top researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) gathered for the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). The conference is one...
Annika Elfström and Martin Svensson

Annika Elfström appointed Acting Managing Director for AI Sweden

2026-01-21
AI Sweden is now going into its eighth year of operation. With strong and successful growth, Sweden's national AI center today gathers 170+ partners from the private and public sector as well as...
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OpenEuroLLM secures strategic access to multiple supercomputers: A milestone for European language models

2025-12-18
OpenEuroLLM is set to develop high-performance language models for Europe. The major European collaborative project has now been granted 10 million GPU hours on Europe’s most powerful supercomputers....
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How to strengthen Swedish innovation - leading companies and parliamentarians in dialogue on AI

2025-12-17
How can we boost AI-driven innovation in Swedish business? This question was discussed when AI Sweden gathered leading companies and Social Democratic Members of Parliament (MPs) for an exclusive...
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Afa Försäkring and the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management join the partner network

2025-12-17
AI Sweden welcomes Afa Försäkring and the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management as new partners. This means the network now brings together over 170 organizations from the business sector...
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The Labor Market AI Council visits the Riksdag to strengthen Sweden’s skills supply and competitiveness

2025-12-12
During a meeting with members of the Committee on the Labor Market, the Labor Market AI Council presented its newly published report on how AI is transforming the Swedish labor market. The discussion...
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The role of talent programs as AI reshapes the job market

2025-12-11
As the pace of AI development accelerates, the focus in the job market is shifting from volume recruitment to strategic, specialized expertise. In an AI Sweden Podcast episode, the discussion centered...

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