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China's metal export curbs reignites global companies' hunt for stable suppliers

China's decision this week to restrict exports of some strategic metals has prompted more companies to re-think their reliance on the world's No. 2 economy at a time when mounting geopolitical tensions have fed fears that more curbs could be coming. → Read More

How Poland snagged Intel's multi-billion dollar investment

Poland's third-largest city Wroclaw beat rivals last week to be home to the next multi-billion dollar Intel chip factory in Europe, with a two-year campaign promising subsidies, infrastructure, talent and a slice of American life. → Read More

Berlin, Intel strike deal on $33 billion chip plant after months of subsidy talks

Germany will grant U.S. chipmaker Intel 10 billion euros ($10.91 billion) in subsidies for its planned factory in Magdeburg, a source familiar the matter said, capping months of talks over a project expected to be worth around 30 billion euros. → Read More

Intel to invest $4.6 bln in new chip plant in Poland

Intel is to invest up to $4.6 billion in a new semiconductor assembly and test facility near Wrocław, Poland, as part of a multi-billion-dollar investment drive across Europe to build chip capacity, it said on Friday. → Read More

EU lawmakers vote for tougher AI rules as draft moves to final stage

European Union lawmakers on Wednesday agreed changes to draft artificial intelligence rules to include a ban on the use of the technology in biometric surveillance and for generative AI systems like ChatGPT to disclose AI-generated content. → Read More

Top AI CEOs, experts raise 'risk of extinction' from AI

Top artificial intelligence executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday joined experts and professors in raising the "risk of extinction from AI", which they urged policymakers to equate at par with risks posed by pandemics and nuclear war. → Read More

OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe

OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe, CEO Sam Altman said on Friday, reversing a threat made earlier this week to leave the region if it becomes too hard to comply with upcoming laws on artificial intelligence. → Read More

OpenAI CEO's threat to quit EU draws lawmaker backlash

For months, Sam Altman, CEO of Microsoft-backed OpenAI has urged lawmakers around the world to draw up new rules governing the technology. On Wednesday, he threatened the ChatGPT maker may leave the EU if the bloc "overregulated". → Read More

Exclusive: Italy watchdog to review other AI systems after ChatGPT brief ban

Italy's data protection authority Garante plans to review other artificial intelligence platforms and hire AI experts, a top official said, as it ramps up scrutiny of the powerful technology after temporarily banning ChatGPT in March. → Read More

Analysis: Regulators dust off rule books to tackle generative AI like ChatGPT

As the race to develop more powerful artificial intelligence services like ChatGPT accelerates, some regulators are relying on old laws to control a technology that could upend the way societies and businesses operate. → Read More

G7 calls for developing global technical standards for AI

Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations on Saturday called for the development and adoption of technical standards to keep artificial intelligence (AI) "trustworthy", saying governance of the technology has not kept pace with its growth. → Read More

Exclusive: Telcos draw up proposal for charging Big Tech for EU 5G rollout

Technology companies which account for more than 5% of a telecoms provider's peak average internet traffic should help pay for the rollout of 5G and broadband across Europe, according to a draft proposal by the telecoms industry. → Read More

Europe set for two new gigafactories as it lures battery makers

Two electric vehicle battery makers plan to spend around 10 billion euros ($11 billion) on factories in Europe, they said on Friday, after Europe loosened state aid rules for green industry projects in a bid to win the subsidy race with the U.S. → Read More

Northvolt to invest billions to build gigafactory in Germany

Sweden's Northvolt will invest several billion euros to build a gigafactory in Germany, able to supply around 1 million electric vehicles with battery cells every year, the lithium-ion battery maker and German government said in a joint statement on Friday. → Read More

EU lawmakers' committees agree tougher draft AI rules

European lawmakers came a step closer to passing new rules regulating artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, following a crunch vote on Thursday. → Read More

Exclusive: Behind EU lawmakers' challenge to rein in ChatGPT and generative AI

As recently as February, generative AI did not feature prominently in EU lawmakers' plans for regulating generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as ChatGPT. → Read More

Italy curbs ChatGPT, starts probe over privacy concerns

OpenAI has taken ChatGPT offline in Italy after the government's Data Protection Authority on Friday temporarily banned the chatbot and launched a probe over the artificial intelligence application's suspected breach of privacy rules. → Read More

Payments firm Klarna posts smaller Q4 loss, eyes return to profit

Swedish payments group Klarna aims to return to profit by the summer, the "buy-now, pay-later" company said on Tuesday, as it reported wider losses for 2022 but an improving performance in the fourth quarter. → Read More

Cisco works with Mercedes-Benz to create mobile office

Cisco is working with Mercedes Benz to add its Webex conferencing tools to the dashboard of vehicles arriving in dealerships in the coming weeks, the company said on Monday, as it seeks to turn the car into a mobile office. → Read More

Microsoft unveils suite of cloud tools for telecom firms

Microsoft has unveiled previews of two AI-powered services designed to manage telecom networks, drawing on the same capabilities used to manage the tech giant's Azure cloud platform. → Read More