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AI Guidelines for Business (Ver1.2), issued on 31 March 2026, provide unified guiding principles for AI governance in Japan. They aim to promote the safe and secure use of AI by helping business actors recognise risks and take voluntary countermeasures across the lifecycle, supporting both innovation and risk reduction through cooperation and a risk-based approach.

A Japanese national grant programme — a renamed and AI-refocused evolution of the long-running IT Introduction Subsidy — providing SMEs and micro-enterprises with subsidies to purchase and adopt pre-registered IT tools, with AI-enabled tools now prioritised as a core adoption target.

A flexible subsidy route that supports bespoke equipment, system integration and custom automation/IT investments (including tailored AI systems).

South Korea's AI Basic Act was passed by the National Assembly on 26 December 2024, taking effect January 2026. It consolidates 19 bills into a national governance framework, establishing an AI Master Plan, the National AI Committee, and an AI Safety Institute, while supporting the AI industry through R&D, data infrastructure, clusters, and SME/startup assistance, and setting transparency, safety and accountability obligations for high-risk and generative AI.

HUDERIA is a Council of Europe initiative comprising a methodology adopted in 2025 and a model approved in 2026 to assess risks and impacts of artificial intelligence systems on human rights, democracy and the rule of law. It provides structured, technology‑neutral guidance and tools to help public and private actors identify, assess, prevent and mitigate risks across the AI lifecycle.

The Agentic AI Hub is a German initiative by the Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernization, launched on 9 March 2026, pairing 17 municipalities with ten start-ups across 18 pilot projects covering administrative tasks such as housing benefit and naturalisation. Startups and municipalities were selected from around 400 start-up and almost 200 municipal applications.

SPARK ("Accelerating Planning and Approval through AI") is a German initiative developed by the Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernization and financed via the Climate and Transformation Fund. It provides agentic AI tools that accelerate complex planning and approval procedures by analysing application files, checking completeness and plausibility, and preparing decision proposals, while final decisions remain with staff. The tools were released as open source in April 2026.

AI for Care is Ireland’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Healthcare for 2026–2030, developed by the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive. It aims to promote the safe, responsible use of AI across health and social care by improving patient care, efficiency, and research, implemented through a strategic roadmap, four pillars (clinical care, operations, research, public health), and an AI Implementation Framework.

Sweden’s AI strategy is a comprehensive national framework to make the country a global top-10 AI leader. It promotes responsible, secure, and trustworthy AI while strengthening innovation, research, and competitiveness. The strategy focuses on increased adoption across society, improved public services, and international cooperation, supported by an action plan and annual follow-up.

Magnifica Humanitas is an encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIV on 15 May 2026, addressing safeguarding human dignity in the era of artificial intelligence. It calls for immediate and ongoing action to ensure AI serves the common good through ethical governance, regulation, education and shared responsibility. The initiative promotes transparency, accountability and international cooperation to counter inequality, exclusion and technocratic dominance.

The Investment and Development Agency of Latvia, in collaboration with different stakeholders, is developing a knowledge-intensive bioeconomy strategy for R&I. This strategy integrates aspects of digitalisation within the sector, including the application of AI. The strategy is accompanied by an action plan with defined timelines.

The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is a joint initiative between the European Union, participating European countries and private partners. Its goal is to develop a world‑class supercomputing ecosystem in Europe by providing access to supercomputers, quantum computers, AI factories and research and innovation projects, implemented through coordinated infrastructure deployment, access calls and collaborative programmes.

The Budget Committee of the Bavarian State Parliament has approved an investment of € 270 million for the construction of a high-performance computing center at FAU. A new building for the IT infrastructure and a new office building are being constructed, with groundbreaking planned for 2026.

Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups secured 264 B200 GPUs under the National AI Project to support SMEs and startups. Delivered free via NHN Cloud, two programmes are funded: a manufacturing project (64 GPUs) targeting production and quality control AI, and a startup incubator (200 GPUs) covering strategic AI development, industry-specific solutions, and early-stage founder support. Applications run April–May, support commences June 2025.

The Plan's preparation phase (2024–2025) includes multi-stakeholder consultation and sectoral working groups. NAIO is responsible for convening these working groups as part of its ongoing coordination role. At the expert level, independent advisory committees covering ethics, safety and technical matters are proposed to review standards and complex cases, alongside an inter-agency AI Governance Council to provide strategic direction.

Zimbabwe's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2026–2030 is led by the Ministry of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services and sets a national framework to harness AI for inclusive growth, innovation and national sovereignty. It defines strategic pillars on AI talent development, infrastructure and computational sovereignty, sectoral adoption, research and innovation, international collaboration, and governance and ethics.

Egypt’s National AI Governance Framework is the suite of all AI Governance instruments and publications that establishes a comprehensive, sovereign, and human centric approach to governing artificial intelligence across the public and private sectors. Rooted in Egypt’s constitutional values and aligned with global best practices, the Framework positions Egypt as a regional anchor in responsible AI.

The National Guidelines for Trustworthy and Responsible AI (the Guidelines) establish a national reference for the responsible development, deployment, and oversight of Artificial Intelligence systems across the public and private sectors. These Guidelines aim to ensure that AI is used safely, transparently, and ethically, while supporting innovation and digital transformation in alignment with Egypt’s Vision 2030 and the National AI Strategy.

Egypt’s National Generative AI Guidelines provide a principles‑based framework to ensure the safe, responsible, and transparent use of generative AI. The document outlines risks, ethical safeguards, governance practices, sector‑specific guidance, and international alignment to support innovation while protecting human rights, privacy, and public trust.

The Ministry of Digital Transformation is planning to introduce AI-based predictive analytics into the Business intelligence system Skrinja (‘box’), which is used by different public authorities to analyse data about their policy area, like public sector salaries, public tenders and administrative procedures, supporting data-driven decisions in real time in public administration.