German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he will push to ease the EU's 'regulatory burden' on AI and possibly exempt industrial AI to boost productivity (Andreas Rinke/Reuters)

Andreas Rinke / Reuters: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he will push to ease the EU's “regulatory burden” on AI and possibly exempt industrial AI to boost productivity — Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sunday that artificial intelligence for industrial use will require more regulatory freedom …

The EC awards a six-year, €180M sovereign cloud contract to four European providers as part of a push to reduce the EU's dependence on non-European tech (Leo Marchandon/Reuters)
Q&A with a16z partner Martin Cascado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more (George Hammond/Financial Times)
White House says a meeting between Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Dario Amodei had been 'productive and constructive'; source: Scott Bessent joined the meeting (Axios)
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Source: Techmeme | 2026-04-20

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