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In medical image analysis, AI can surpass human experts; in diabetes it can raise an alarm in time to head off a glycaemic event. Hints of its power, but concerns about privacy are slowing deployment of AI tools

Seventeen new multi-university alliances will get €5 million each to develop joint degrees. Three UK winners will be kicked out in event of no deal Brexit

Mark Walport, the most powerful figure in UK science, talks about maintaining a strong voice in the EU capital, and how to get it right on mission-led research

Governments around the world are now pushing for ‘disruptive innovations’. Quebec’s AUDACE programme is funding scientists to work with farmers, dancers and others for surprising results

Advisory group calls for research roadmap, more researchers and more research capacity, among 33 recommendations for artificial intelligence policy and investment in the EU

The benefits from EU money spent on deploying new air traffic management systems are far from clear, says the European Court of Auditors. However, EU-level planning and regulation has helped to coordinate national investments

Three EU-funded supercomputers in Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Slovenia will attract more big science projects, lure back expatriate researchers and help reduce the innovation gap between east and west

There is horse trading ahead, but Bert De Colvenaer, head of the EU’s €5B electronics and systems partnership is pleased to see the successor project taking shape. Industry wants a bigger budget and for larger companies to continue to get public funding

An online shop window aims to link recipients of proof of concept grants with business angels interested in adding cash and expertise to take projects forward

Decisions over research, farm and other EU budgets postponed to the end of 2019, as EU Council divides over top EU leadership jobs

Gunnar Bovim, rector at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, wants to combat the brain drain from developing countries. They need expertise more than we do, he says

Dutch university – bottom of the league on gender equality in the Netherlands – is making a bold move to deal with the imbalance. “I hope our example will be followed by others,” says university president Robert-Jan Smits

Dag-Inge Ulstein, Norway’s minister for international development, says there will be more support for renewable projects, as he urges other donors not to reduce overseas aid

Officials in Ottawa say they plan to step up funding for Canadian researchers to join other countries’ R&D programmes – including Horizon Europe