ROME, June 26 (Reuters) – Italy will join the U.S.-led Pax Silica initiative on artificial intelligence supply \u200cchains despite a row between Prime Minister Giorgia \u200cMeloni and U.S. President Donald Trump, a foreign ministry official said.<\/p>\n
Ambassador Armando \u200bVarricchio told Friday’s Corriere della Sera daily that Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio would sign a memorandum of understanding “at the first available \u200copportunity”.<\/p>\n
“This provides a \u2060political basis that demonstrates the willingness to resume from where we had temporarily left off,” \u2060Varricchio said.<\/p>\n
Pax Silica is a U.S. State Department initiative bringing together allied countries to secure AI-related supply chains, covering \u200bareas ranging \u200bfrom energy and critical \u200bminerals to advanced manufacturing \u200cand AI models. The European Commission joined the initiative on Thursday and the Netherlands signed up earlier in the week.<\/p>\n
Varricchio, acting as Italy’s special envoy for innovation, attended a Washington summit on the initiative as an observer on \u200cThursday and signed a joint \u200bdeclaration on AI opportunities alongside countries \u200bincluding Britain, Germany, \u200bJapan, India and South Korea.<\/p>\n
Italy was due \u200cto join Pax Silica on \u200bMonday in Miami, \u200bbut Tajani called off the trip after Meloni and Trump had a public falling out after the \u200bU.S. president complained \u200cabout Italy’s alleged lack of support for the \u200bIran war.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Giulia Segreti in RomeEditing by \u200bAlvise Armellini and David Goodman)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME, June 26 (Reuters) – Italy will join the U.S.-led Pax Silica initiative on artificial intelligence supply \u200cchains…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,46355,25,625,30750,6130,25559,42831,11827],"class_list":["post-86804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-antonio-tajani","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-donald-trump","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-italy","tag-pax-silica","tag-secretary-of-state-marco-rubio","tag-supply-chains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}