THE LOCAL STACK
(Local) AI  ·  Leuven
events  ·  meetups  ·  talks  ·  conferences

// Upcoming Events

22–25 April 2026
KU Leuven  ·  Bruges

European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning. One of the oldest and most serious AI conferences in Europe.

23 April 2026
KU Leuven  ·  Leuven

International speakers on AI and machine learning in football. Tactical analysis, player scouting, strategic decision-making. KU Leuven, 16:15.

28 April 2026
KU Leuven  ·  Hybrid

Research seminar by Kushal Jayesh Tatariya. Data quality and model interpretability beyond English-centric assumptions. When NLP stops at the language border.

30 April 2026
The Local Stack  ·  Cafe de Fiere Margriet, Leuven

We’re hosting our first event. Bring a laptop, bring your AI stack, and show up at Cafe de Fiere Margriet in Leuven. No agenda. Just builders in a room.

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// The Great Return

An ongoing research series on the structural migration from cloud to local AI in Europe. Based on the paper by Ron Spoelstra.

  • Deep Dive · 2 Apr 2026

    Four incidents. One pattern. Sophisticated attackers moved from systems to people. What that means for local AI.

  • Update #9 · 27 Mar 2026

    The institution that wrote the AI Act was breached on AWS. 350 GB. The regulator confirmed it. Scorecard: 12/30.

  • Deep Dive · 27 Mar 2026

    Compliant local AI agents are the architecture regulators wanted. Attackers found another use for them.

  • Deep Dive · 27 Mar 2026

    Open weights are not a preference. For European regulated-sector organisations, they are the compliance path.

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// On the Radar

  • 30 Mar 2026
    Mistral AI raises €830M in debt to build a data centre near Paris, powered by Nvidia chips. CEO Arthur Mensch: “to ensure AI innovation and autonomy remain at the heart of Europe — rather than depend on third-party cloud providers.” 200 MW of European compute capacity by 2027.
    Source: TechCrunch  ·  Reuters  ·  CNBC
  • 31 Mar 2026
    LiteLLM supply chain attack via compromised PyPI account. Two malicious versions (1.82.7 & 1.82.8) active for 3 days, stealing SSH keys, cloud tokens, and Kubernetes secrets. If you’re building local AI on open-source: audit your dependency versions. Context →
    Source: BleepingComputer  ·  TeamPCP
  • 26 Mar 2026
    EU Parliament votes to simplify the AI Act. New deadlines for high-risk systems, a ban on nudifier apps, reduced overlap with sector legislation. What this means for your organisation →
    Source: European Parliament  ·  ronspoelstra.be
  • March 2026
    Axelera AI (Eindhoven) puts European AI chips on the map with the Metis APU — up to 629 TOPS inference on edge hardware. A serious European alternative to American dominance in AI inference.
    Source: Axelera AI  ·  axelera.ai

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