Dom Hallas (Startup Coalition)
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Dom Hallas (Startup Coalition): AI Politics Across the US, UK & EU
Dom Hallas joins in the studio for his third appearance to run through AI politics: a US shift toward a more security-conscious, regulatory approach driven by China fears, including a White House meeting on pre-release testing, while the UK is 'monitoring the situation' under Kanishka's new Cabinet Office role and Europe presses ahead regardless. They discuss US anti-data-center sentiment, faster US corporate adoption versus sluggish European corporates, and the French government effectively forcing Mistral on CAC 40 companies. The conversation also covers tech diplomacy (including the book Apple in China), whether governments might nationalize labs, the UK's National Security and Investment Act and dual-use tech, and OpenAI's Atlas math breakthroughs versus open-source concerns.