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Official source: COM(2026) 502 final — Proposal for a Cloud and AI Development Act

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The digital transformation of the Union’s key industries is a central pillar of the apply
            AI strategy. Accelerating the uptake of AI across those strategic sectors is essential to
            maintaining global competitiveness and increasing societal benefits. The Cloud and AI
            Leadership Initiatives should accelerate the development and uptake of industrial AI
            across the Union’s strategic industrial and service sectors, while fostering the
            technological development of highly capable sector-specific AI models designed to
            meet the operational requirements of the industries prioritised under the Apply AI
            Strategy, such as healthcare, transport, including aerospace, automotive,
            manufacturing, defence and space, climate and environment and agri-food. The Cloud
            and AI Leadership Initiatives should also accelerate the development of service sectors
            prioritised in the Apply AI Strategy and scientific discovery as priorities in the
            European strategy for AI in science, in line with COM(2025) 724 final.

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