At A.I. Summit in Paris, a Push for Innovation Before Regulation

An artificial intelligence race is heating up between the United States and China — but don’t count Europe out.

That is the case President Emmanuel Macron of France made this week as his country hosts an A.I. summit in Paris, where government leaders, top tech executives and academic experts gathered on Monday to discuss the fears and hopes surrounding A.I technology.

“There’s a race to scale,” Mr. Macron told France 2 television on Sunday night under the soaring steel and glass roof…