A $179 billion AI investment has put France “back in the game”, French President Emmanuel Macron has told a global summit in Paris while pitching lighter touch regulation, more chip manufacturing and cheap green energy to power datacentres.
The French push, to be backed up by a new European AI strategy on Wednesday, comes in response to liberalisation and investment in the US, and arrives as the Albanese government finalises its approach for Australia.
Industry minister Ed Husic will give an address in Canberra on Wednesday amid warnings Australia has been too slow to develop its rules for AI and is underinvesting in infrastructure and adoption.
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