OpenAI calls for mandatory evaluations of AI models by the Commerce Department rather than intelligence agencies, leveraging established relationships with leading labs.
The EU is creating a four-tier security classification system for cloud and AI services that favours European providers and structurally disadvantages large US corporations.
The EU aims to encourage households to use electricity during off-peak hours via smart meters to free up capacity for energy-intensive AI infrastructure.
Bavaria terminates a planned multi-million euro contract with Microsoft and instead opts for open-source solutions to achieve independence from US vendors and better data control.
The EU is responding to technological dependencies with an integrated package of semiconductor, cloud-AI and open-source initiatives designed to secure long-term European control over critical technology value chains.
