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 …

Trump quietly signs a downsized AI executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit models for review 30 days before release
Trump quietly signs a downsized AI executive order asking companies to voluntarily submit models for review 30 days before release

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday establishing a voluntary framework for government review of frontier AI models before public release, ending weeks of internal White House conflict over how aggressively to regulate the technology. T…

Poland will introduce a “sovereignty test” for government tech purchases as Tusk warns AI dependency has reached dangerous proportions
Poland will introduce a “sovereignty test” for government tech purchases as Tusk warns AI dependency has reached dangerous proportions

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced that Poland will introduce a “sovereignty test” for significant government purchases of technology solutions, warning that the country’s dependency on foreign digital infrastructure has reached a scale th…

The EU’s €20 billion plan for five AI gigafactories is falling apart before the first bid is even submitted
The EU’s €20 billion plan for five AI gigafactories is falling apart before the first bid is even submitted

The European Union’s plan to build five massive AI data centres, each with one gigawatt of capacity and approximately 100,000 advanced chips, is stumbling before it starts. The bidding process, originally scheduled for May, has been pushed to July. A l…

Palo Alto Networks shareholders have rejected executive pay seven times, and the CEO still earns nearly $100 million
Palo Alto Networks shareholders have rejected executive pay seven times, and the CEO still earns nearly $100 million

A majority of Palo Alto Networks shareholders have voted against the cybersecurity company’s executive compensation packages seven times since 2015, a record that makes it the most rejected pay programme in the S&P 500 and the third-most in the Rus…

The world’s mathematicians just issued a formal declaration telling AI companies to stop using their work without permission
The world’s mathematicians just issued a formal declaration telling AI companies to stop using their work without permission

A coalition of mathematicians from institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Columbia, and Northwestern has published a formal declaration calling on the mathematical community to confront the threats that artificial intelligence poses to t…

The White House is at war with itself over who gets to regulate AI
The White House is at war with itself over who gets to regulate AI

The Trump administration is locked in an internal battle over artificial intelligence regulation that has paralysed federal AI policy at the moment it matters most. Three factions are fighting for control: the Commerce Department, which has been quietl…

Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI, naming Altman personally and calling ChatGPT a defective product
Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI, naming Altman personally and calling ChatGPT a defective product

Florida has sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in what appears to be the first lawsuit by a US state against the maker of ChatGPT. The civil complaint, filed Monday in state court by Attorney General James Uthmeier, accuses OpenAI of violating product liab…