Italy will join the US-led Pax Silica initiative on artificial intelligence supply chains despite a spat between Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and US President Donald Trump, a foreign ministry official said. Ambassador Armando Varricchio told Friday’s Corriere della Sera daily that Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio would sign a memorandum of understanding “at the first available opportunity”. “This provides a political basis that demonstrates the w