European Union policymakers responded to an Anthropic employee's viral warning that AI models "could kill us all by the end of the decade" by pointing to the bloc's existing Artificial Intelligence Ac…
A researcher's resignation from Anthropic this week, accusing it and OpenAI of "gambling with our lives," intensified pressure on governments to act on AI safety, with three experts telling POLITICO t…
European Commission Executive Vice President Henna Virkkunen called for global artificial intelligence rules on Friday, saying "global rules are really needed" after a viral warning from a former Anth…
European Union policymakers responded to former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon's viral claim that AI models "could kill us all by the end of the decade" by pointing to the bloc's existing…
The EU ombudsman opened an inquiry into the European Commission's appointment of Siemens chairman Jim Hagemann Snabe as special envoy for industrial AI, following a complaint from NGOs including Trans…
French President Emmanuel Macron personally championed AI startup Mistral, helping it secure a partnership with Nvidia and interest from BNP Paribas, Orange, SNCF, and Thales, according to POLITICO in…
Jacob Coxon, an AI researcher who worked at Anthropic and previously OpenAI, resigned with a warning that both companies are 'gambling with our lives' by racing toward self-improving superintelligence…
The European Court of Auditors warned on Tuesday that criminal gangs are using artificial intelligence to identify rural locations in Europe for illicit cigarette factories closer to their markets, re…
Israel Space Agency chief Shimrit Maman met with European Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva in Brussels to discuss cooperation on AI, robotics, and space, as the EU seeks closer ties with Israel on hig…
Two years after Mario Draghi's report on European competitiveness, only 15.7 percent of its recommendations have been fully implemented, and in digital and tech, only 6.4 percent, according to draghiw…
King Charles has invited around 30 top AI figures, including Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, and Vatican AI adviser Paolo Benanti, to an exclusive gathering this mo…
The European Commission on Monday designated OpenAI's ChatGPT as a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, imposing transparency and risk-mitigation obligations similar to thos…
The political center in the European Parliament is increasingly fragile, with a proposal from two senior German MEPs for the center-right EPP and the Social Democrats to strike a more formal deal as r…
Two-thirds of European Union governments have pledged money to back an EU plan to create seven large AI compute hubs, the bloc's most significant industrial policy push in the global race for artifici…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's upcoming State of the Union address on Sept. 16 will prominently feature climate and artificial intelligence, according to two officials. The theme…
Zack Polanski of the UK's Green Party has called on the government to pause data center construction, citing environmental and societal impacts, as the Labour government aggressively courts energy- an…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and the Red Cross jointly called on countries to ban or restrict autonomous weapons, warning that the world is approaching a 'moral red line' with the…
New polling from Public First shared with POLITICO finds that older and wealthier individuals are more positive about AI, while 18- to 24-year-olds are the least positive, with more than a third worri…
European Union digital chief Henna Virkkunen warned at the July 2026 launch of the EU's Action Plan on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence that frontier AI models can build cyber exploits in min…
NATO plans to fortify its eastern edge using drones, sensors and artificial intelligence in a massive network designed to spot and help repel a potential Russian attack, with AI assisting drone operat…