{"id":230883,"date":"2025-07-02T02:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230883\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T02:44:10","slug":"a-new-tech-race-is-on-can-europe-learn-from-the-ones-it-lost-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230883\/","title":{"rendered":"A new tech race is on. Can Europe learn from the ones it lost? \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/research\/programs\/quantum-benchmarking-initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">program<\/a> led by the U.S. government\u2019s DARPA defense research agency, 18 companies have been selected as part of a larger bid to come up with an error-free quantum computer by 2033. Those companies could reportedly tap up to $300 million if they pass all the stages.<\/p>\n<p>The EU\u2019s draft strategy promises to launch \u201ctwo grand challenges\u201d between 2025 and 2027, with one focused on quantum computing and another on quantum navigation systems in \u201ccritical environments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another way for governments to support companies to commercialize the technology would be if they are the primary buyers of technology, which then lowers the bar for the industry to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/11710551-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6845178\"  \/>Some industry voices have warned that the EU\u2019s approach to regulating AI offers a cautionary tale. | Etienne Laurent\/EPA<\/p>\n<p>The draft strategy said the Commission would \u201csupport innovation-oriented procurement schemes,\u201d but didn&#8217;t offer much detail on how it would do so.<\/p>\n<p>Companies are adamant on what they don\u2019t want from Brussels: regulation and restrictions on quantum technology, like restrictions on the export of the technology. <\/p>\n<p>Some industry voices have warned that the EU\u2019s approach to regulating AI offers a cautionary tale. Worried about the potential harms of the technology, the EU rolled out the world\u2019s first <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/bills\/622069\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI rulebook,<\/a> only to quickly backtrack to focus on AI innovation and commercial success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot afford to regulate what is not yet mature,\u201d said Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, director general of DigitalEurope, one of Brussels\u2019 leading tech lobbies. \u201cOtherwise, Europe risks losing the quantum race.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under a program led by the U.S. government\u2019s DARPA defense research agency, 18 companies have been selected as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1942,28,17468,67299,1395,2001,2437,3835,12495,2000,299,5187,1214,2348,806,1302,2817,2441,7061,6646,3591,2443,2343,7154,53,49,3141],"class_list":{"0":"post-230883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-buildings","10":"tag-capital-markets-union","11":"tag-cecilia-bonefeld-dahl","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-communications","14":"tag-companies","15":"tag-connectivity","16":"tag-development","17":"tag-eu","18":"tag-europe","19":"tag-european","20":"tag-exports","21":"tag-history","22":"tag-industry","23":"tag-innovation","24":"tag-intelligence","25":"tag-markets","26":"tag-procurement","27":"tag-public-funding","28":"tag-quantum","29":"tag-regulation","30":"tag-research","31":"tag-software","32":"tag-technology","33":"tag-united-states","34":"tag-venture-capital"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114781347216110880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}