The European Commission unveiled new rules on Monday granting an electronic sustainability label to EU data centres with more than 500 kW of installed capacity starting 21 September, with minimum perf…
Norway and Finland led a declaration calling for control of frontier AI models that was adopted by 20 nations, including Germany and Canada, plus the European Commission, as the U.N. General Assembly …
A coalition of 22 world leaders, including Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney…
Four senior European Parliament lawmakers — Dutch Green Kim van Sparrentak, German conservative Axel Voss, Italian Social Democrat Brando Benifei and Irish independent Michael McNamara — are pushing t…
The European Commission proposed the EU KIDS Act on 17 September 2026, a draft Regulation (COM(2026) 681 final, procedure 2026/0286 (COD)) that would set a single minimum age of 15 for opening a socia…
The European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence has published Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI, defining three core components—lawfulness, ethicality, and technical ro…
The International Monetary Fund told EU finance ministers at their September 18-19 informal meeting in Dublin that artificial intelligence could deliver roughly 1% in productivity gains over the next …
The European Commission's draft EU Kids Act would require mandatory age verification for all users of online games, including single player titles that connect to platforms like Steam for updates, dis…
The European Commission proposed the EU Kids Act this week, legislation that would ban social media for children under 13, require age verification for online accounts, and force companies including M…
Nokia's VP and CTO for Europe, Azfar Aslam, said at the Xcelerated Compute Show in London that European AI infrastructure will grow by at least 3x by 2030 and that power is not arriving fast enough to…
The European Commission will host a high-level Data Union Conference to contribute to a wider political debate on the future of EU data policy, with the agenda to be published and admission subject to…
The European Union proposed the EU Kids Act, which would ban children under 13 from social media, online games, and AI chatbots, with parent-chaperoned "mini accounts" for children aged 13 to 15. Euro…
The European Commission proposed the EU Kids Act, which would bar children under 13 from holding social media accounts and require 13- and 14-year-olds to use parental-supervised "mini accounts" cappe…
The European Commission proposed the EU KIDS Act, which would bar children under 15 from autonomously creating accounts on certain online social networking services and video-sharing platforms. The pr…
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney held their first bilateral meeting in Liverpool, agreeing that governments and the tech sector must partner to ensure online…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed in her 2026 State of the Union address that Canada become the European Union's first associate member, saying she wants to work with Canadia…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned in her State of the Union 2026 address that AI agents "escaping their environment" are just a preview of coming risks, citing the Hugging Face…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen used her 73-minute State of the European Union address on Wednesday to call for a "discussion" with frontier AI labs on pacing development rather tha…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Wednesday that the European Union will ban social media for children under 13 and require parental-controlled "mini accounts" with time lim…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen used her 2026 State of the Union address to warn that frontier AI models in development could enable hacking "on a level we never thought possible" a…