Dear colleagues: Europe wants to free itself from its precarious dependence on powerful US tech giants. There's more to it than just ChatGPT, Gemini & Co. A new, large language model has been developed in Switzerland. More on APERTUS: The Swiss LLM Apertus – Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the-swiss-llm-apertus/ Best wishes, Herbert Bruderer (formerly ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Bruderer, H. (2026). Turning Points in the Analog and Digital World. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17822921 ACM, New York Bruderer, H. (2026). Wendepunkte in der analogen und digitalen Welt. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17455914 De Gruyter, Berlin Bruderer Informatik Seehaldenstraße 26 Postfach 47 CH-9401 Rorschach Schweiz/Switzerland Telefon +41 71 855 77 11