The countries’ industrial ministers discussed how to “pool our resources together [and] look at joint opportunities to provide more computing power,” Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne said on a press call from Trento, Italy. Earlier, Italian Enterprises Minister Adolfo Urso said the group would work on unspecified joint AI investment. (The Logic, Reuters)

Talking point: Researchers and firms currently need significant amounts of processing power and other infrastructure—compute—to train and run the most advanced AI models. But the chips and cloud services that make up those tech stacks are expensive and in high demand. As The Logic reported last year, Champagne’s office has been working on a strategy to secure more affordable compute access, including discussions with cloud giants and chipmaker Nvidia. In January, Canada and the U.K. signed an agreement to cooperate on infrastructure. London has pledged £1.7 billion ($2.89 billion) for new supercomputers; a G7-wide deal would bring in substantial U.S. hardware.