Juliana Michelon

AI Geopolitical Economy #2537

EU Tech Policy Trump threatens retaliation after EU hits Google with antitrust fine US President Donald Trump has threatened retaliation after the European Commission fined Google €2.95 billion for abusing its dominant position in the advertising technology industry. Trump also wrote that he “will be forced to start a Section 301 proceeding to nullify the unfairContinueContinue reading “AI Geopolitical Economy #2537”

AI Geopolitical Economy #2536 – Technology GAP in European Defence, US Oligarchy dinner, Harmful content measures, and Shanghai Summit

EU Tech Policy Addressing hardware gaps is only one part of Europe’s defence challenge Europe lacks sovereign hyperscale cloud-computing capacity and its armed forces remain dependent on the major US commercial vendors for these services. The approach to delivering this capability across Europe and within NATO has been uncoordinated so far. As European nations seekContinueContinue reading “AI Geopolitical Economy #2536 – Technology GAP in European Defence, US Oligarchy dinner, Harmful content measures, and Shanghai Summit”

Trump threatens EU tech regulation, China’s new rare minerals regulation, and lessons from the dot-com era | AI Geopolitical Economy #2535

EU Tech Policy Macron wants EU to target US Big Tech after new Trump tariff threat French President Emmanuel Macron has told his ministers that the European Union should consider retaliatory measures against the U.S. digital sector after President Donald Trump threatened additional tariffs over tech regulation and taxes, according to a senior French government official. “TheContinueContinue reading “Trump threatens EU tech regulation, China’s new rare minerals regulation, and lessons from the dot-com era | AI Geopolitical Economy #2535”

AI Geopolitical Economy #3425

This week, Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska, followed by talks in Washington with NATO and European leaders over a possible Russia-Ukraine peace deal, have dominated headlines and pushed critical discussions on artificial intelligence into the background. Nonetheless, significant developments surfaced. The most troubling are around Meta: internal documents revealed that its AI policies allowContinueContinue reading “AI Geopolitical Economy #3425”

AI Geopolitical Economy #3325 – US tracks AI chips and imposes export taxes on NVIDIA

EU Tech Policy Why the EU needs to go hard on quantum computing software Experts, investors, and policymakers are increasingly paying attention to the code locked inside quantum computers – technology that could one day break cryptographic algorithms rapidly and upend the world’s digital systems as we know them. Though an array of developers across EuropeContinueContinue reading “AI Geopolitical Economy #3325 – US tracks AI chips and imposes export taxes on NVIDIA”