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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

Commission’s support is on the right track - but the measures lack coherence and visibility, says European Court of Auditors

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

A year in, the preliminary plans for the €55.3B research partnerships appear to be on track to help advance EU’s green, digital and health goals

Expanding the scope of the programme to include technologies ‘that may not be innovative’ is not the way to reduce EU greenhouse gas emissions

Washington and Brussels also agreed to make it easier to research social media platforms and promised more R&D coordination on rare earth magnets and 6G wireless

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

Opening Europe up to gene edited crops would be good for start-ups, but clumsy deregulation could cost Europe dear