How each country is inventing, adopting, researching and regulating AI. Every profile is reviewed monthly and linked to its primary sources; the news on each hub updates daily.
Americas204 stories
United States
Build fast, regulate lightly at federal level, and push one national rulebook that overrides state AI laws.
Europe27 stories
United Kingdom
Pro-growth and pro-adoption: no AI Act, regulation through existing sector regulators, and a safety effort focused on testing frontier models.
Europe33 stories
European Union
One binding rulebook, trimmed in 2026, plus heavy public spending on compute and on getting businesses to adopt AI.
Asia-Pacific20 stories
China
State-led: put AI into every sector, release open-weight models, build its own chips, and shape global rules.
Europe12 stories
Germany
Industrial AI over consumer chatbots: build sovereign compute, and enforce the AI Act with a light, low-bureaucracy touch.
Asia-Pacific8 stories
South Korea
Pushing to become a top-three AI power, with state-backed sovereign models and compute alongside Asia’s first comprehensive AI law.
Americas6 stories
Canada
A pro-growth AI power that guards its sovereignty, addressing AI risks through privacy and online-safety law rather than a dedicated AI Act.
Europe7 stories
France
Europe’s would-be AI champion: back Mistral, sell nuclear power to data centres, and keep EU rules as light as possible at home.
Asia-Pacific7 stories
Japan
Aims to be “the most AI-friendly country in the world”: soft law, state-backed industrial policy, and a focus on physical AI and robotics.
Asia-Pacific6 stories
India
Pro-innovation, with no AI-specific law: non-binding guidelines, targeted rule changes, and state money for compute and home-grown models.
Middle East5 stories
Gulf
Spending heavily to become AI powers, pairing sovereign wealth and US chip alliances with light-touch, principles-based rules.
Middle East0 stories
Israel
A startup-led AI power now adding sovereign, state-backed compute and talent, with light, sector-by-sector regulation.
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