EU announces €1 billion for increasing adoption in strategy to lead AI development

The European Commission is committed to spending about €1 billion to increase the uptake of artificial intelligence as part of a twin set of plans to propel the bloc to the front of the line in the global competition to guide establishment of the technology.

"I want the future of AI to be made in Europe,” Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said in an Oct. 7 release rolling out the plans. “Because when AI is used,...