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”

EU enforces AI Act for general-purpose models

The AI Act obligations for providers of general-purpose AI (GPAI) models have entered into force on 2 August across the EU.The Commission’s GPAI guidelines and endorsed Code of Practice offers a compliance path, but scrutiny will be high for non-signatories. The debated FLOP threshold (i.e., computational power used to train AI, measured in floating pointContinueContinue reading “EU enforces AI Act for general-purpose models”

AI Geopolitical Economy Week #3125

The week opened with movement on Europe’s new AI rules. Google confirmed that it will sign the EU’s voluntary code of practice for general‑purpose AI models. Microsoft’s Nanna-Louise Linder, VP of European Government Affairs, shared a post on her LinkedIn account that the company has signed the code to build trust and demonstrate “compliance withContinueContinue reading “AI Geopolitical Economy Week #3125”