White House AI Safety Framework + Big Tech's $1T Data Centre Bet

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 5 August 2026


White House finalizes voluntary AI safety framework, granting government 30-day pre-release access to frontier models

Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Amazon and Alphabet lock in $1.09 trillion in future data centre lease commitments

World Bank 2026 report urges developing nations to adopt AI rapidly or risk falling permanently behind

IonQ and Sandia National Laboratories partner on quantum co-design for US national security

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