would never do it — and rightly so" — Thierry Breton, European commissioner for the internal market

The wary — if not openly skeptical — response poses an early challenge to the European Commission, which has placed developing artificial intelligence and ramping up the bloc's digital economy at the top of its priorities for the next five years.

Unveiling the EU's "data strategy" in February, French former tech CEO and Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton offered a vision of a European AI landscape in which large industrial companies voluntarily share troves of data in sector-specific "data spaces" that would be accessible to researchers and other firms.

Tech companies, car manufacturers, electricity firms, public health authorities and heavy industry would all be encouraged to provide the food for this data "buffet," toOn a trip to Burlington I stumbled upon this small lighthouse called the North Light. I loved the line in the middle of the water, the foggy landscape only allowing a bit of mountains to show, and especially how she was standing perfectly in the center. Vermont is a beautiful state.