The UK government unveiled a domestic AI hardware plan in late April, committing to build sovereign capability in the chips and semiconductor technologies underpinning the AI stack — a belated but explicit acknowledgement that dependence on US and Asian supply chains is a strategic vulnerability.
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Meta refuses to sign the EU’s AI Code of Practice as August enforcement approaches
Meta’s Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan publicly declined to sign the voluntary Code of Practice for general-purpose AI models, calling it legally uncertain and beyond the AI Act’s scope — a position that puts the company on a collision course with the European AI Office ahead of the August 2 enforcement date.