EU leaders hold first AI summit in Dublin, plan to return to it in February

EU leaders held their first in-depth discussion on artificial intelligence at an informal European Council meeting in Dublin on 13 November, and agreed to return to the topic at their next meeting in Alden Biesen on 5 February 2027, Council President António Costa said. "AI is the most important technology of our time," Costa said, calling for Europe to help set global standards to keep AI "safe and human-centric."

Leaders heard from Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton. Costa said Europe's position in AI will depend on how much public and private money it can mobilise for its own models, on securing supply chains and on affordable clean energy, and that the next EU long-term budget's European Competitiveness Fund will play a decisive role.

AI's effect on jobs and society will be the central theme of the EU's 2027 Social Summit. The meeting came the day after Jensen Huang's resignation from Nvidia, which Politico Europe said underlined that the AI race remains largely between the US and China.