Category: AI Policy Initiatives
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“The Future of AI belongs to those who combine technology with humanity”: France’s PM Macron at India AI Impact Summit 2026
India’s AI Impact Summit 2026, the first event of its kind in the global South, marked a pivotal moment in global technology governance. ai fray has broken down the key highlights of the event, which included discussions by top tech titans OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries.
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AI patent-eligibility: spotting hallucinations over value-adds
While AI is accelerating discovery, designing software, and shaping new chemical compounds, some industry voices question whether we have become too dependent on it to invent, and how the pitfalls of that over-dependence are being materialized.
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ETSI to transpose cybersecurity standard for AI systems into European Norm
The technical specification, first unveiled in April, sets a benchmark for securing AI systems against the backdrop of rising cybersecurity threats, and will be consulted on by other European standards organisations before being implemented.
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Microsoft makes digital commitments to Europe: open access to AI, cloud infrastructure, pledges to fight for European customers in U.S. court
The commitments include a promise to uphold Europe’s digital resilience regardless of geopolitical and trade volatility, Microsoft has announced.
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Governments are stepping up on AI: Stanford University’s AI Index 2025
U.S. federal agencies introduced 59 AI-related regulations – more than double those in 2023 – and global investment in AI governance tripled to over $37 billion, an annual AI report has found.
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European Commission’s third draft of General-Purpose AI Code of Practice: finer KPIs but ‘still risks undermining the EU’s digital competitiveness’
The third and final draft, ahead of expected publication in May, has more specific guidelines on copyright compliance, including text and data mining – but those obligations could “threaten trade secrets”, CCIA Europe has said.
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Paris AI Action Summit made divisions between major powers’ approaches “even clearer”: EU AI governance consultant Valéria Silva
The Paris AI Action Summit confirmed the “patchwork” of divergent approaches major global economies are taking in AI regulation, making it hard to achieve the coordinated global approach needed to properly manage the technology, Mrs. Silva tells ai fray in an exclusive interview.
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Sam Altman says some other European countries should follow French example: op-ed for French newspaper on eve of Paris AI Action Summit
Context: Tomorrow (Monday, February 10, 2025), will be the first day (and industry stakeholder day) of the Paris AI Action Summit (event website) hosted by the government of France in partnership with that of India. On the second day, the heads of state and government of many countries will join. A draft statement for the…
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Global progress in AI “in jeopardy”: Nvidia speaks out against incoming U.S. AI chip rule, adds to industry-wide concerns
The new rule is an attempt by the Biden Administration to “rig market outcomes and stifle competition – the lifeblood of innovation – [and] threatens to squander America’s hard-won technological advantage”, Nvidia’s vice president of government affairs Ned Finkle has stated in a blog post.
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“We want Britain to shape the AI revolution”: UK government publishes AI action plan
The new plan will make the UK “irresistible” to AI firms and includes changes such as encouraging public and private data licensing, and reforming the UK text and data mining regime so it is “at least as competitive as the EU”, British government says.