Snabe will serve in the unpaid role until the end of March 2027 and is expected to produce a report on issues including AI infrastructure, frontier AI technologies and industrial AI adoption. But the appointment came under fire because of Siemens’ recent role in lobbying to loosen the AI rules now shaping Europe’s industrial strategy. […]
Continue ReadingHaving spent the summer trying to ease the cost of living, is a new tourist tax about to hit domestic holiday makers in the pocket? The government is giving mayors additional powers to introduce a levy on hotel stays, with no cap on how much they can charge. With the tourism industry already angry, Sam […]
Continue ReadingMatveev added that Zelenskyy’s air campaign has exposed how the Russian military can’t fully protect the country. That was underscored in May when the Kremlin reluctantly pared back the Victory Day jamboree celebrating the Red Army’s defeat of Nazi Germany. Shortly after, in June, Ukraine repeatedly struck Russian oil refineries and fuel infrastructure, including around […]
Continue ReadingCopernicus said the record temperatures were “due to global heating from burning fossil fuels,” combined with rising sea surface temperatures in the Pacific linked to a strong El Niño climate pattern. “Combined with record global sea surface temperatures and the warmest summer on record for western Europe, these observations show how climate change is driving extremes […]
Continue Reading‘Who knows what will be in the next manifesto’ on Europe The TUC general secretary — who voiced support for a U.K.-EU customs union in 2025 — appeared to suggest that he believes Labour’s next election manifesto could end the party’s refusal to countenance either a customs union or single market relationship with Brussels. “We need […]
Continue ReadingSen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will host a private briefing for senators next week with top artificial intelligence researchers, according to a letter to colleagues obtained by POLITICO. The meeting, slated for 4 p.m. on Sept. 16, comes as concerns grow on both sides of the aisle about safety warnings from top AI labs and researchers […]
Continue ReadingThe EU earlier this year agreed on wide-ranging new rules allowing countries to establish “return hubs” in third countries like Albania and Rwanda, to which unsuccessful asylum seekers and other failed migrants can be sent to. It has also drawn up lists of safe countries from which would-be refugees are unlikely to be accepted apart […]
Continue ReadingHis comments come just days after a landslide victory for the AfD in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt in which the party just fell short of winning an absolute parliamentary majority. “Remigration” is a far-right concept that can range from deporting people without legal status to the mass removal of immigrants and their descendants. The […]
Continue ReadingThat is seen, by AI companies such as Google-owned Deepmind, as one of the possible triggers for a scenario in which AI vastly exceeds human intelligence (known as artificial superintelligence) instead of just matching it (known as artificial general intelligence). “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end […]
Continue ReadingThere are lingering concerns that a bad budget deal for France could boost the far-right National Rally, which is ahead in the polls and has campaigned to halve Paris’ contributions to the EU budget. During a closed-door discussion on Tuesday, France’s ambassador to the EU, Philippe Léglise-Costa, told colleagues that new EU-wide levies should generate […]
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