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.
Bull has secured a €387.8 million contract to build LUMI-AI, a EuroHPC supercomputer set for 2027. Notably, it uses AMD chips to diversify from…
Meta's lawsuit over its AI Glasses now includes bystanders who never owned the device, alleging their private moments were captured without consent. This raises…
At TechBBQ in Copenhagen, discussions centered on European AI sovereignty, highlighted by Emad Mostaque's assertion that controlling AI equates to controlling countries. While there…
Pasqal began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker PSQL, raising $360 million—$140 million less than anticipated due to shareholder redemptions. Despite concerns about foreign…
The Pentagon is onboarding OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government while confirming it will fully drop Anthropic by end of September, days…
Chang Deng-Lung and eight others were indicted for smuggling Nvidia AI servers into China via Indonesia and Japan, exploiting legal gaps in Taiwan's export…
Kenji Ohmori's team in Japan successfully activated a fifty-qubit quantum machine named Shunkai, marking a significant step in quantum hardware. As nations invest heavily…
Corti and the Danish Center for AI Innovation put a sovereign AI control layer on the Gefion supercomputer, citing GDPR, NIS2, DORA and the…
SB 53 lists four things that count as a critical safety incident, and the only one that fits what happened inside OpenAI in July…
The PORTS-Pike data center landed a $105 billion Nvidia guarantee, 9.2 GW of federally owned gas funded by Japan, and an $80 million community…
Alibaba's share placement raised $10.2 billion, the largest primary follow-on in Hong Kong history. Against RMB67.7 billion of June-quarter capex, it buys about one…
The MATCH Act would strip ASML of its remaining DUV sales to China and bar it from servicing machines already installed there. It's riding…
Seven amendments in ten years, five algorithms authorized since 2015, and oversight that never leaves the executive branch. What the French state can actually…
Sept modifications en dix ans, cinq algorithmes autorisés depuis 2015, et un contrôle entièrement interne à l'ordre administratif. Ce que l'État français peut réellement…
314 eurodéputés ont voté le rejet, 276 le maintien, et le rejet a échoué sur un seuil. Ce que propose vraiment le CSAR, pourquoi…
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