US AI guidelines are everything the EU’s AI Act is not: voluntary, non-prescriptive and focused on changing the culture of tech companies. They could have an impact long before the EU legislation – but only if AI developers sign up
The European Commission wants research institutions to reduce their reliance on journal metrics and reward researchers according to the quality of their work, not by the number of citations
NSF Engines, a new programme of the US National Science Foundation, aims to spread the tech wealth more broadly across the nation – tackling a regional policy problem common to many countries
The first 63 regions, seven cities and four countries are selected for the Partnerships for Regional Innovation pilot, as part of the upcoming European Innovation Agenda
In hour-long videoconference, US universities vow to help counterparts in Ukraine with reconstruction and in enabling them to play a wider role in repairing the war-torn economy
Joint research calls, supply chain monopolies and standards setting. All these topics and more were on the agenda at a meeting in Washington DC. China was shut out, opening a geopolitical fault line in a critical technology of the future
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