EU executive is already part of rival US initiative to secure AI development

Countries could give thumbs up to draft position on Friday

Paper also sketches new 'legislative track' to tackle internal model risks and liability

Lawmakers fail to agree deal on crucial economic project for second time

But Europe can do more with less, says France's AI hopeful

Scientific advisors and MEPs urge Commission to address risks posed by non-public AIs

LatticeFlow AI first framework to measure political bias across leading AI models

Research into political bias also shows 'debiasing' Chinese models works quite well

Commission keeps mum on whether it shares Budapest's opinion

Countries also still lack a common position on the startup-booster reform

As AI Act enforcer, Commission could probe models or order changes

Cohere stands on both sides of the Atlantic after merger with Aleph Alpha

Commission also wants to speed up writing of technical norms, per draft law

Expanding the rules would create a massive inflow of public spending into European alternatives

Report on manufacturing and robotics runs parallel to work by European Commission's AI envoy

Call to eject US data analytics giant on democratic grounds

Participants fear social dumping and threats to co-determination

Civil society AI experts are eyeing a ‘commodified’ alternative future

European Commission says it's assessing AI labs’ recent safety improvements

Proposal for AI giants to coordinate on rules also branded a “cartel” by critics

Planned invite follows global discussion of AI labs' doomsday predictions

Euractiv has seen a draft of Ursula von der Leyen's State of the EU' speech

Vestager among backers of pitch to target EU's trade bazooka at frontier AI access

The AI Act was much maligned for "stifling innovation". Given recent incidents, those complaints look ill-judged

Chatbots advertised as having no safeguards are readily available online

EU's executive asked to reply to questions about Siemens chairman’s role

Brussels weighs quotas, local content rules and other ways to favour EU products

Plan for a register inside bloc's startup reform law faces fresh pushback

Commission remarks follow OpenAI confirming fresh incident with its AI agents