Europe
"This marks a groundbreaking step in product security, as the first regulation of its kind worldwide."
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"