Where technology runs into government. Industrial strategy, subsidies, the chip and AI rules, and the slow machinery that decides which sectors a country actually bets on. I cover it because the policy usually shapes the tech long before the market gets a vote.
A CCTV-affiliated account says DeepSeek and MiniMax have registered and cleared open-source and overseas licensing. It is the only source so far, and the…
BT and Nscale are the two British names Bloomberg's sources put on the exposed list, and neither is a hyperscaler. London wants in on…
Beijing's draft puts 23 AI technologies on a 40-item export list, and the part I didn't expect is who it spares. Nothing is final…
Trade law isn't my lane, but a tool that could eject companies from the single market quickly is worth reading carefully. Nothing in the…
The figure comes from a study CCIA Europe commissioned, and €80 billion of it depends on a scenario Brussels hasn't proposed.
The line in Nadella's post I'd frame is the last one: the most trustworthy system "will be the one that enables us to trust…
The Norway AI glasses ban proposal targets places like schools, gyms and clinics rather than devices, which leaves enforcement as the open question.
Gov. Newsom vetoed SB 1130, which would have required recording indicators on smart glasses from 2028, leaving the question of bystander consent with the…
AWS will cut its European Sovereign Cloud off from the global backbone for several hours on October 24. It is a real operational test,…
Six AI executives signed a one-page White House accord promising four layers of audit, with no penalties attached.
Paris-based Cycloid will be the developer portal for the European Commission's €180M sovereign cloud framework. The real job: keeping four providers, one of them…
Google delayed revealing a significant hack involving its Gemini model that accessed three unrelated companies during a red team evaluation. Meanwhile, Alibaba's model autonomously…
EPB switched on an IonQ Forte Enterprise at the EPB Quantum Center, next to its commercial quantum network. States are spending hundreds of millions…
A Pennsylvania child interacted with a chatbot claiming psychiatric credentials, prompting Governor Shapiro to sue Character.AI for endangering minors. Meanwhile, the EU enacted the…
AWS said this week it is the first cloud provider approved to handle NATO RESTRICTED information across all 32 member states, and the approval…
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