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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | Hillary Brill |Oona Lagercrantz |Pablo Chavez |Christopher Cytera
It’s a conundrum. Leading AI developers such as OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google depend on text, images, and videos from the web to create their revolutionary large language models (LLMs). Restricting access to copyrighted work risks harming AI innovation and creating biased algorithms. But rightsholders fear for their livelihoods and demand compensation. How should policymakers respond? CEPA is launching a series on copyright and AI to address this challenge.
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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | Pablo Chavez |Christopher Cytera |Joshua Stein |Padraig Nolan
AI sovereignty emerged as an essential theme of the Paris AI Action Summit. Shortly before the summit started, President Emmanuel Macron stated that one of France’s strategic goals is to achieve technological sovereignty in AI. Some of this isn’t new. In 2021, France spearheaded efforts to establish “cloud sovereignty,” which eventually mandated stringent security and ownership restrictions on specific data centers owned by foreign companies in France.
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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | Niclas Poitiers |Pauline Weil |Christopher Cytera |James Thomson
Under the Joe Biden administration, Europe and the US shared the common aim of fighting climate change and de-risking from China. Biden rejoined the Paris climate agreement. He wielded tariffs and subsidies to sell climate policies to American voters as rebuilding US industry. Europe pursued an ambitious green policy and became wary of Beijing’s attempt to dominate green industries. Admittedly, the allies embraced different approaches.
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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | Carl Bildt |Anja Manuel |Joshua Stein |Christopher Cytera
A hurricane warning is in effect for transatlantic tech cooperation. The European Union is rushing ahead with regulations designed to break up what it considers US tech monopolies, enforce strict rules on social networks, and ensure safety along the artificial intelligence raceway. The United States is sprinting in the opposite direction on all three fronts. This week, France hosts the AI Action Summit in Paris.
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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | Michael Sheridan |Christopher Cytera |Joshua Stein |Clara Riedenstein
When the president of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, told an audience at Davos that Europe and China should “find solutions” to matters of mutual interest, it is unlikely that she had more “wolf warrior” diplomacy in mind. Yet it is President Xi Jinping of China who has set the tone for his country’s interaction with the Europeans through an appointment that is as shrewd as it is provocative.
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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | Pablo Chavez |Matthew Eitel |David Kirichenko |Christopher Cytera
During the Biden administration’s closing days, the Commerce Department issued sweeping technology export controls, placing new limits on the export of advanced AI chips. The rules divided countries into three tiers. The top rung, Tier 1, allows a select group of 18 US allies and partners broad latitude to import and deploy advanced AI chips. Tier 2 countries — the vast majority of the world’s nations – face much more stringent restrictions.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
cepa.org | Bill Echikson |Christopher Cytera |Ronan Murphy
Since the November US presidential elections, Apple’s Tim Cook, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos have made a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago. The CEOs congratulated Trump on his victory, and many have donated to his inauguration ceremony. In return, most hope for either a reduction of regulation or regulation that will help their companies.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
cepa.org | David Kagan |Francis Harris |Joshua Stein |Christopher Cytera
China and Russia are aligned but not allied, we’re often told. Or, as one leading analyst put it, the brown bear and the panda are cycling side by side, but whether to the same destination is not yet clear. And of course, it’s true we cannot see the future or where this journey will lead. But we can make an assessment, and frankly, that is far from reassuring. If you doubt it, look at the Germany-Japan axis of the mid-20th century, which offers some troubling parallels.
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Jan 7, 2025 | cepa.org | David Kagan |Francis Harris |Joshua Stein |Christopher Cytera
China and Russia are aligned but not allied, we’re often told. Or, as one leading analyst put it, the brown bear and the panda are cycling side by side, but whether to the same destination is not yet clear. And of course, it’s true we cannot see the future or where this journey will lead. But we can make an assessment, and frankly, that is far from reassuring. If you doubt it, look at the Germany-Japan axis of the mid-20th century, which offers some troubling parallels.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
cepa.org | Joshua David Stein |Christopher Cytera |Edward Lucas
Things move fast online and usually slowly through the courts, but this is shifting for TikTok. The US Supreme Court will hear arguments on January 10 on legislation that would ban the social media platform from operating in the US unless it is sold to a US firm. Since TikTok’s owner will not sell, only the court can save the company from shutting down. In the US, on January 19. It should be a clear-cut case.
