David Matthews

Since the 2000s, the EU has been pooling resources to procure bigger machines. With two top 10 computers set to start operations this year, the strategy is beginning to bear fruit

In a further move away from the Trump era, the Biden White House has announced a range of initiatives and visa tweaks to increase predictability and clarity for highly educated immigrants

Sweden has banned Chinese vendor Huawei from its network, but Hungary has not. With networks so entwined, such discrepancies could imperil the whole single market. European legislation may be required to prevent this

The EMA has also announced a plan to expedite study set-up on the back of the Clinical Trials Regulation, coming into force at the end of this month. But beneath the rhetoric of Brexit deregulation, the UK does not want to diverge from international peers

It’s currently shut out of international research in Horizon Europe, but Switzerland is now a member of the €1.9B project to build the world’s largest telescope, becoming the first non-founder country to join the club

Tens of billions of euros will be required to clean up steel manufacturing and the EU needs to decide what route it should take to do this - whether to retrofit old coke furnaces, or build new gas-powered ones

With talks to update the roadmap on EU/China research collaboration stalled, a new report argues the EU should copy Beijing and draw up a list of foreign technologies it wants to acquire. This is the latest warning that Europe lacks intelligence on Chinese research, politics and society.

The last six months have seen a flurry of announcements as brain-hungry countries try to lure researchers, entrepreneurs and students

Academics warn ultra-powerful foundation models that can be adapted to a range of tasks risk infecting all AI systems with biases, security flaws and opacity. The EU’s proposed AI act may not be up to mitigating this threat