Trump wants the American public to own a piece of OpenAI. Nobody knows how that would work.
Trump wants the American public to own a piece of OpenAI. Nobody knows how that would work.

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…

Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act
Von der Leyen’s AI envoy pick triggers conflict-of-interest backlash weeks after Siemens helped gut the AI Act

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…

Canada unveils $2.3bn AI strategy as Carney takes cues from Pope Leo on safety
Canada unveils $2.3bn AI strategy as Carney takes cues from Pope Leo on safety

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,…

UK forces Google to let publishers opt out of AI search results without losing their ranking
UK forces Google to let publishers opt out of AI search results without losing their ranking

For months, publishers have faced a binary choice with Google: let AI Overviews summarise your content at the top of the search page, sending less traffic to your site, or disappear from Google entirely. As of Wednesday, that choice no longer applies i…

EU lawmakers voted to shield colleagues from Belgium’s Huawei corruption probe
EU lawmakers voted to shield colleagues from Belgium’s Huawei corruption probe

More than a year after Belgian prosecutors asked the European Parliament to lift the immunity of four lawmakers suspected of taking bribes from Huawei lobbyists, the Parliament has voted to keep those protections in place, Politico reported. The decisi…

Europe wants to make sure no one has a kill switch over its technology
Europe wants to make sure no one has a kill switch over its technology

When the Trump administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor earlier this year, Microsoft cancelled his email account. The incident was brief and bureaucratic. It was also, for European policymakers, clarifying. If a singl…

The EU is asking households to cut electricity use during peak hours because AI data centres are straining the grid
The EU is asking households to cut electricity use during peak hours because AI data centres are straining the grid

The European Commission has called on households across the bloc to reduce electricity consumption during peak hours, citing the rapid growth of AI data centres, accelerating electrification, and rising overall digital infrastructure demand as factors …

EU tech sovereignty package: chip emergency powers and curbs on US cloud
EU tech sovereignty package: chip emergency powers and curbs on US cloud

The Commission’s ‘AI continent’ rhetoric sits atop draft laws that would let it override chip supply contracts and keep US providers away from sensitive government data. The European Commission unveiled its long-delayed technological sovereignty packag…

UK regulator imposes new rules on Google search, including an AI-training opt-out
UK regulator imposes new rules on Google search, including an AI-training opt-out

Britain’s competition regulator has stopped consulting and started ordering. On Wednesday the Competition and Markets Authority imposed new conduct requirements on Google’s search services, the first concrete obligations to follow from its decision to …

UK committee urges break clause on Palantir’s £330M NHS data contract
UK committee urges break clause on Palantir’s £330M NHS data contract

A UK parliamentary committee has called Palantir’s role in the public sector an “unacceptable point of weakness” and urged the government to break its NHS contract with the American company. The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee singled out …