The US has found a new use for Europe’s swelling defence budgets: tearing out Huawei. Whether its allies are listening is another matter. The State Department’s China coordinator, Joshua Young, told officials in Brussels last month that NATO members sh…
In the 1990s, almost every US state sued the tobacco industry. The resulting settlements cost hundreds of billions of dollars and transformed how cigarettes were marketed, sold, and regulated. Senator Ed Markey said in March that Big Tech’s Big Tobacco…
The UK government will offer to buy AI chips directly from British technology companies in a bid to keep them in the country. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall will outline plans for “strategic purchases” of semiconductor equipment from UK-based firms a…
President Trump signed a national security presidential memorandum on Friday ordering the US military and intelligence agencies to accelerate their adoption of cutting-edge AI. The directive, NSPM-11, establishes a framework for “rapid onboarding of th…
Sriram Krishnan, the White House’s senior policy adviser on artificial intelligence, is stepping down. The former Andreessen Horowitz partner was tapped by President Donald Trump to help shape the administration’s AI strategy during his second term. He…
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned on Friday that artificial intelligence may need to be rationed because the power supply cannot keep up with its capabilities. He said companies and governments face “very big social choices” as energy const…
EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič has called for a new “diversification instrument“ to reduce Europe’s dependence on single suppliers of chips and rare earths. He made the proposal at the European Policy Center’s Brussels Economic Security Forum on …
President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will likely meet with AI companies at the White House next week to discuss what he called a federal government “partnership” that would let the American public profit from the industry’s success. “There a…
The European Commission has appointed Jim Hagemann Snabe, chairman of Siemens’ supervisory board, as its special envoy for industrial artificial intelligence. He will advise Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and tech sovereignty chief Henna Vir…
Days after a phone call with Pope Leo XIV about the moral stakes of artificial intelligence, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Toronto on Thursday and announced precisely the kind of national framework the pontiff had demanded. The strategy,…