With EU relations patched up, UK researchers and policymakers are planning the next moves. There are no firm plans for AI legislation, but an international collaboration fund set up during the wilderness years will continue, and there will be a focus on South American links

Despite last minute lobbying, the legislation will impose extra checks on cutting edge general purpose AI that is owned by a handful of US and Chinese companies. However, there’s no right for researchers to dig into these models

Despite Beijing’s military threat to Taiwan, a new analysis has tracked more than ten thousand joint AI papers with Chinese military-linked institutions, including on drone targeting, automatic ethnicity recognition, and online censorship

New leadership introduces changes in the Commission’s research directorate, as it gears up to start work on the proposal for the next seven-year EU framework research programme

Two wars hung over this year’s get-together of scientists and politicians in Berlin. But there was still plenty of excitement, and trepidation, about new breakthroughs in AI, solar energy, and transatlantic science

EU universities have been all but left out of the UK’s AI safety summit, while arguably more important is a ground-breaking new executive order from the US, which begins to demand outside scrutiny of the potentially dangerous capabilities of AI models

As part of measures regulating artificial intelligence, Washington will move to improve surveillance of mail-order DNA. Scientists have long warned the current global system is full of loopholes. Now, the US government says the risks are ‘potentially made worse by AI’

Co-funded by Horizon Europe and the US National Science Foundation, the project reflects a wider strategy of deepening transatlantic cooperation on key technologies, to reduce dependence on China. The value of the project was not disclosed 

As AI becomes a daily helper for research managers, institutions are awaiting EU guidelines and learning from one another