I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines."
—Claude Shannon
A growing clash between Big Tech and European regulators centers on rules designed to give rival AI assistants greater access to mobile platforms, with Google and Apple warning the measures could compromise privacy and security.
India and the European Union are moving to build their own frontier AI models and computing capacity as control over the world’s most advanced AI technologies tightens.
Alibaba’s internal ban on Anthropic’s Claude Code has evolved into a broader dispute spanning security concerns, regulatory scrutiny, user privacy, and allegations of large-scale AI model distillation between two of the industry’s biggest players.
Governor Gavin Newsom announced the partnership, which extends Claude access to California’s local governments and includes free workforce training, technical assistance and workflow support from Anthropic developers.
The two labs, led by the University of Oxford and University College London, will share up to £60 million to develop more efficient, reliable and accessible AI technologies.
The event will announce the theme and further details of the 2027 Geneva AI Summit, which will emphasise international law and fundamental rights in the development and deployment of AI systems.
The AI industry depends on advanced semiconductors, and a small island plays an outsized role in producing them. Taiwan accounts for more than 90% of global leading-edge chip manufacturing and for over 60% of global foundry revenue, according to the U.S. International Trade Administration.
The U.S. senator proposed taxes on AI companies and data centers, arguing that the gains from AI should be shared more broadly rather than concentrated among a handful of firms and investors.
Despite billions in US investment and China’s domestic chip push, Taiwan remains the chokepoint in the US-China AI race, with advanced chips, compute infrastructure, and semiconductor power still running through the island.
Singapore is testing whether AI adoption and worker protection can advance together as governments worldwide grapple with the economic risks of automation, with Parliament backing a “no jobless growth” transition before AI-driven labor disruption fully accelerates.
