Sam Schechner

France plans to invest more than $1 billion in domestic quantum-computing companies and capabilities, an effort to keep up with the U.S. and China in what the country sees as a race for tech sovereignty. French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that the money would partly be injected through an

The head of the Catholic church is adding his moral suasion to a growing backlash against the impact of artificial intelligence.

The investment marks Europe’s largest artificial-intelligence infrastructure project to date

The experiment offers one of the first large-scale looks at the effect that coordinated AI adoption can have on students’ reasoning, retention and confidence.

Masayoshi Son said that his Tokyo-based technology conglomerate would unleash at least $52 billion of investment in French data centers.

In an interview, SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son shrugs off an AI bubble and says a correction would be a good time to invest. ‘Aim for much bigger fish.’

The $1 trillion startup warns that AI models are nearing capability to improve without human intervention.

Guardrails make the powerful model less useful for AI researchers, though the company said it would grant safeguard-free access to the science community.

The president made his comments at a Group of Seven summit where some world leaders were concerned about losing access to leading AI tools.

Read this exciting story from The Wall Street Journal June 18, 2026 issue. President Trump said negotiations with Anthropic over restoring access to the company’s latest artificial-intelligence models were “going fine,” comments that came at a Group of Seven summit where some world leaders were concerned about losing access to leading AI tools.