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German digital minister Wildberger urges more openness to AI at Digitalgipfel in Berlin
See how this story connectsFederal digital minister Karsten Wildberger told the government’s Digitalgipfel in Berlin that society and industry should show more openness to artificial intelligence and more engagement, saying “We are still too slow.” He called industrial AI a concrete goal and an opportunity for Germany, and said the German Mittelstand needs access to data and computing capacity. Siemens chief Roland Busch said the race for large general-purpose AI models is largely lost to the US and China, and that smaller and medium-sized companies hold large data stocks that applications could make usable.
Why it matters
Wildberger said that Germany’s Mittelstand needs access to data and computing capacity to adopt industrial AI, and Siemens chief Roland Busch said the open question is how AI is integrated into design and production.
- When
- 2 Nov 2026
- ID
WTA-N-2026-0619- Where
- Germany, European Union, United States, California, China
- Who
- Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernisation, Siemens, Bitkom, European Commission, PHP Foundation; Karsten Wildberger, Roland Busch, Ralf Wintergerst, Roberto Viola, Willemijn Aerdts
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WTA-N-2026-0619: “German digital minister Wildberger urges more openness to AI at Digitalgipfel in Berlin.” wheresthe.ai, 2 Nov 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/de-german-digital-minister-wildberger-urges-more-openness-to-2026-11/ (source: heise online).
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