European Union: European Union and Canada signed memorandum of understanding on AI

On 8 December 2025, the European Union and Canada signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to advance cooperation on trustworthy AI that supports fundamental rights, innovation, and economic growth. The parties will work together on AI standards, regulatory approaches, skills development, and adoption in strategic sectors. The parties also plan to collaborate on large AI infrastructures, improve access to compute capacity for industry and academia, and explore joint research on advanced AI models for public-benefit applications such as climate and extreme-weather monitoring. A structured dialogue on data spaces will support the development of large AI models.