President Lee Jae Myung will attend the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, to discuss global challenges including wars in Ukraine and Iran, financial instability, and AI risks. This marks the secon…
The G7 summit in Evian entered its second day with leaders focusing on AI safety, digital security, and online child protection, while cryptocurrency and digital assets were notably absent from the ag…
Tyler Cowen and Alexander Tabarrok published a Marginal Revolution post on June 16, 2026, warning that regional AI champions like France's Mistral could create political leverage and cross-border depe…
Tyler Cowen warns that Europe's AI nationalism could lead to intra-European dependencies, as France's Mistral AI may dominate the EU market, giving France and Mistral leverage over other European coun…
The Trump administration forced Anthropic to take its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline, blocking access for foreign nationals including employees. The shutdown has intensified global calls for s…
As digital lives expand, the fate of online accounts, data, and assets after death remains legally fragmented. France leads with clear post-mortem data protection laws, while Germany lacks harmonized …
G7 leaders are meeting at the Évian summit to discuss AI governance in financial markets, focusing on both opportunities like fraud detection and risks such as market instability from autonomous AI. T…
France hosts the G7 summit from 15-17 June, with President Emmanuel Macron pushing artificial intelligence to the forefront of the agenda and positioning France as Europe's AI powerhouse. However, the…
The US Department of Commerce ordered Anthropic to disable access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for foreign nationals after a high-risk jailbreak vulnerability was disclosed, marking the first ma…
French President Emmanuel Macron, with less than a year left in office, is betting on artificial intelligence to cement his legacy, leveraging France's nuclear energy to attract AI data centers and se…
Thousands of protesters gathered in Geneva on Sunday to demonstrate against the G7 summit, with U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders set to meet in Evian-les-Bains, France. The demonstrators,…
The US and Iran have agreed to the text of a peace deal to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, negotiators said. Pakistani Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif confirmed a final agreed-upon text, whi…
The 52nd G7 Leaders Summit convenes in Evian-les-Bains from 15 to 17 June 2026, with the agenda dominated by the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, global economic imbalances, critical mineral sourc…
More than half of UK travellers now use artificial intelligence to plan holidays, with 52% adopting AI tools in 2026, up from 40% the previous year, according to MMGY Travel Intelligence's Portrait of…
SoftBank will invest up to €75 billion ($87 billion) to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centre capacity in France, marking the Japanese conglomerate's largest European infrastructure commitment. The firs…
SoftBank plans to build AI data centers in France with up to 5 gigawatts of capacity, representing its largest AI infrastructure investment in Europe at up to 75 billion euros. Facilities worth 45 bil…
SoftBank committed €45 billion ($52 billion) to build AI data centers in northern France by 2031, marking Europe's largest AI infrastructure project. The investment, announced at President Macron's Ch…
The French government is accelerating its shift away from American technology, with over 40,000 officials already using a home-grown video platform as part of a broader push to reduce reliance on US s…
Japan's Finance Minister Katayama announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI to provide Japanese financial institutions with priority access to the company's newest, unreleased models. Microsoft, O…
A study of ClinicalTrials.gov records found a marked increase in AI-related clinical trials over time, with recent growth in references to machine learning, deep learning, chatbots, GPTs, and large la…