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The Trump administration is struggling to find a coherent position on artificial intelligence regulation. After the president revoked a previous executive order on AI oversight, officials and industry executives are now quietly negotiating what, if anything, should replace it — leaving a significant policy vacuum at a critical moment for the technology.
Across the Atlantic, the European Union is drafting cloud computing rules that could effectively shut American hyperscalers like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google out of contracts involving critical infrastructure. The proposed changes would favor European providers, marking one of the most aggressive moves yet in the continent's push for digital sovereignty.
And in a sobering story from the aerospace sector, a worker has died following a fall at a SpaceX facility. The incident is renewing scrutiny of the company's safety record, with critics and labor advocates pointing to a pattern of workplace violations at a company that, in several launch-related markets, faces little meaningful competition.
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