European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's State of the Union address in September is under preparation, with officials scrambling to ensure she has substantive policy announcements. The EU'…
The European Union is preparing to designate ChatGPT and Roblox as 'very large online platforms' under the Digital Services Act, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources. The label wou…
A new analysis argues that AI regulation targeting only downstream companies could backfire, as upstream developers may reduce their own safety investments. The European Commission's enforcement of th…
The EU AI Omnibus entered into force on July 27, 2026, extending compliance deadlines for high-risk AI systems under the EU AI Act, with Annex III systems now due by December 2, 2027 and Annex I syste…
Google has begun rolling out a new account sign-in and recovery method that uses a selfie video, announced in a July 23 blog post. Users record a short video performing head movements, which is encryp…
The European Commission gains sweeping new powers on Sunday to police how advanced AI labs handle systemic risk under the AI Act, with the EU's AI Office able to demand documentation, conduct evaluati…
The European Union's AI Act mandates deepfake labeling under Article 50 from August 2026, with fines up to €15 million or 3% of global turnover for non-compliance, and blockchain-based provenance syst…
Space data centers are emerging as the next AI frontier, with the European Commission-backed ASCEND project studying the feasibility of orbital data centers that would operate as autonomous, AI-enable…
Google's rollout of AI Mode as the default search experience, powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash, has cut publisher click-through rates by up to 58%, according to an Ahrefs study, with users clicking a tradi…
Progressive Conservative MLA Bill Oliver read an AI chatbot's rewriting instruction aloud in the New Brunswick legislature on July 24, 2026, inadvertently reciting the prompt wrapper 'Here's a more na…
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened the European Union with steep tariffs and a trade investigation after the European Commission fined Google $1 billion for violating the Digital Markets Act by fa…
The European Commission on Friday found TikTok violated the EU's Digital Services Act by failing to adequately protect minors' privacy, allowing adults to view children's accounts and exposing them to…
US President Donald Trump confirmed that Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Washington on September 24, with artificial intelligence expected to dominate the talks. Trump made the announcement on…
Google launched the AI & Economy ATLAS on July 23rd, 2026, a study built on 15 million de-identified interactions spanning more than 800 distinct activities to map usage of its AI products. The ATLAS,…
The European Union fined Google 890 million euros ($1 billion) for violating digital antitrust regulations by using Google Play and its search engine to steer consumers toward its own services, harmin…
The European Union has fined Google 890 million euros ($1bn) for breaking digital antitrust rules by steering users of Google Play and its search engine toward its own services at the expense of rival…
The European Commission fined Google €890 million on Thursday for breaching the Digital Markets Act, with €460 million for promoting its own services in Google Search and €430 million for failing to a…
On June 9, 2026, the European Commission ordered Meta to restore free WhatsApp access for competing general-purpose AI assistants via the WhatsApp Business API, reversing a fee Meta introduced in Marc…
The European Union's proposed Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) would steer sensitive public-sector work away from non-EU providers, including the United States, potentially cutting Europe off from …
The European Commission will host an online kick-off meeting on 14 September 2026 to present three new GenAI pilot projects for public administrations funded under the Digital Europe Programme. The pr…