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Emotion recognition banned in workplaces, classrooms.
Scheme will pave the way for upcoming certification schemes: EUCS on cloud services and EU5G on 5G security
"National investment in compute capacity is a new economic imperative... countries are awakening to the need to invest in sovereign AI infrastructure" says Jensen Huang
The investment comes as a Google DeepMind paper poured some cold water on the AI hype, finding "various failure modes of transformers and degradation of their generalization for even simple extrapolation tasks" if these are out of its training data domain.
Announcement leaves AWS lagging Azure and OCI - with Oracle already running sovereign infrastructure in Frankfurt and Madrid with “no backbone network connection to other cloud regions”
"No backbone network connection to Oracle's other cloud regions” says the company, with Microsoft also promising an EU "data boundary"
Careful now, read the small print: Account, diagnostic data will stay in the US and Zoom can't promise calls and recordings won't pass through data centres you opted out of...
Proposals only allocate €11bn in EU funds but open door to more state aid, as EU Chips Act aims to secure 20% of semiconductor production in the bloc by 2030.