Nico Schmidt is an investigative journalist based in Berlin, Germany. As part of the European journalistic team Investigate Europe, he is focussing on artificial intelligance, its infrastructure, surveillance and global supply chains. Recently, he was an AI Accountability Fellow at the Pulitzer Center. His works have been published in outlets such as Die Zeit, taz, Der Standard, Republik and Deutschlandfunk. His reporting has been nominated multiple times for the German Reporterpreis and the European Press Prize.