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The existential fear emanating from Silicon Valley and the U.N., techies say, masks what is ultimately a cybersecurity challenge.

A top executive at ASML Holding NV, Europe’s most valuable company, said it isn’t selling any of its chipmaking machines on the continent and that the region risks getting left behind as the US, China and India invest heavily in developing their domestic semiconductor industries.

Brussels sees the panic set off in Silicon Valley as vindication that its AI regulation is the right path.

An optimist’s guide to AI developments and policy

Applying basic security principles would go a long way to fixing problems identified by Anthropic and OpenAI, writes Ciaran Martin

Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today’s economy?

Machines do not want, know or decide. Score your text and fix the wording.

A competitive procurement framework is better for startups and more realistic about geopolitical threats.

EU regulators and companies are debating whether cookie consent rules should be changed so that users make choices at the browser level rather than being bombarded with consent banners and suffering from “cookie fatigue.” Dale Sunderland, a commissioner at the Irish Data Protection Commission, said in an interview with MLex that he sees an “attractiveness” in the proposal for a browser-level consent.

British experts warn the Islamist group’s use of AI should alarm lawmakers.

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Brussels receives stark criticism in New Delhi for setting an example of how not to regulate.

Europe's cutting edge firms are falling far behind the American frontier because of restrictive labor laws.

Keir Starmer said the U.K. government needs to look at “some of the addictive features on social media that mean you never stop scrolling.”